Politics
Senate advances war powers measure to rein in Trump's military actions in Venezuela
The Senate on Thursday narrowly advanced a war powers resolution to block President Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela…
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Business
Wall St opens lower; defence firms up as Trump calls for budget boost
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday (Jan 8), as investors turned cautious ahead of Friday’s crucial nonfarm payrolls…
Business
Morgan Stanley boosts managing director ranks after dealmaking revival
Wall Street expects another strong year as equity markets hit record highs and interest rates decline Morgan Stanley elevated 184…
News
Don’t Sell Out Pro-Lifers to Save Obamacare
Being ‘flexible on Hyde’ could mean voting for a grave evil — facilitating the unjust taking of human lives. Source link
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Barry Blitt’s “Guzzler”
When President Trump announced the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the cartoonist Barry Blitt decided that…
Business
Inside Singapore’s AI bootcamp to retrain 35,000 bankers
The Government is working hand in glove with the country’s largest banks to teach new technology skills Kelvin Chiang knew the five…
Business
Google and Character.AI to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots harmed teens
Google and Character.AI, a California startup, have agreed to settle several lawsuits that allege artificial intelligence-powered chatbots…
Politics
Hoyer to announce retirement from Congress: Report
Rep. Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, will reportedly announce his retirement from Congress on Thursday. Source link
Politics
Democratic leader says U.S. troops would be following 'illegal orders' in Greenland
A top House Democrat said Wednesday that U.S. troops would be following "illegal orders" from President Trump if they used military force…
News
Reading for the New Year: Part Two
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
Politics
The Trump Administration Goes Full Tinfoil Hat in Its Revisionist History of January 6
This odious document should never have been published, much less on the taxpayer-funded White House website. Source link
News
Zimbabwe on the Hudson
Zohran Mamdani’s housing official represents a tradition that has ruined countries. Source link
Business
Holiday shoppers spent a record amount online, searching out deals amid economic anxiety
Consumers splurged this last holiday season, enticed by good deals even as they worried about growth and inflation. Online shoppers spent…
News
Contributor: Tech can avert catastrophic fires. What's missing is coordination
A year ago Los Angeles woke up to a red sky. Schools closed, and families packed into cars not knowing when or if they would return. In…
News
The Perils of Killing the Already Dead
He goes on to say that to behead a corpse is to follow the path of Satan, and that it is God, not a lip-smacking corpse, who holds power…
Politics
ICE’s New-Age Propaganda
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Late last year, the White House’s social-media…
Politics
CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviets, dies
CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging…
News
A Look into the Mind of the Mamdani Marxist
The elevation of figures such as the fanatical Cea Weaver has been edifying. Source link
News
Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix”
For the cover of the January 12, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss used color and composition to contrast the warmth inside with the…
News
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The latest and most vigorous addition to this genre is “Sex Beyond ‘Yes’: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone” (Norton), by Quill Kukla, a…
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All Hail the Jamaican Patty
The leader of the fancy-patty movement, for me, though, is Bar Kabawa, the swanky, sexy East Village Daiquiri joint that’s attached to…
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A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
Sensing that she was losing the argument, Lowell rushed at Colcord, winding up to throw a punch before stopping short a few feet away from…
Business
Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to…