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New York City will pay $60 million to owners of 64 properties seized under the controversial TPT program as Mayor Zohran Mamdani considers its revival. (Photo: Getty Images) New York City has agreed to pay $60 million to property owners whose buildings were seized under its controversial Third Party Transfer program, a settlement that comes…

Outside the lab, Jin captains his varsity swim team and co-presidents his DECA chapter. He also co-founded Project LIFE, a student-led initiative that has grown to over 20 chapters in eight states, with a mission to improve education and access to the bone marrow registry. Most teenagers go to a pathology office for a blood…

Riyadh/Dubai: Saudi Arabia issued security alerts over a range of territory Tuesday, including in the holy city of Mecca and the second-largest city Jeddah, following a week of attacks from Iran-aligned fighters that have drawn it deeper into the West Asia war.The alerts were swiftly lifted and Saudi authorities did not immediately report whether any…

The US supreme court (SCOTUS) refused to clear the postal service to enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots for the congressional midterms, in a rebuff to the Trump administration after some states started early voting and opponents warned late-breaking changes would inject chaos into the elections.The justices’ decision Monday came after North Carolina and Alabama…

Large technology companies, including Palantir Technologies, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton, could restrict or cease to use advanced AI models unless Anthropic and OpenAI guarantee not to misuse their intellectual property, the Information reported on Monday.Anthropic faced customer pushback after a June policy change for its Fable model gave the company rights to retain usage…

FBI director Kash Patel declined to rule out sending agents to polling places on Election Day, telling senators he wasn’t certain the bureau is legally barred from doing so. “I don’t know that we can’t legally do it,” Patel told the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. He said the FBI plans to station agents and intelligence…

Piddington, a central English village of 350 people, held a symbolic “independence referendum” on Tuesday to protest against plans to house more than 1,200 asylum seekers at a nearby disused military site.The Oxfordshire village, 25km from Oxford, asked residents to vote “Yes” or “No” on whether it should seek to secede from the UK and…

A former Google DeepMind employee Monday became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could “kill all humans”, saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome. Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week he had resigned, in part because…

Dhaka: Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Tuesday sentenced seven Awami League leaders, including party general secretary and former minister Obaidul Quader, to death for crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising that led to the ouster of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister.Like Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who were…

Streamer’s ex mod arrested after alleged knife attack, ‘hot water’ assault sparks tense 17-minute police standoff in Korea A female streamer in her 20s was allegedly attacked by a former chat moderator at a restaurant in Ansan, South Korea, on September 12. Police arrested the man after a standoff in which he allegedly held the…