Mamdani named Cea Weaver, a housing activist, to run the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, on Jan. 1, during his very first news conference on his very first day in office.
While the island nation has endured periodic episodes of mass migration, food shortages and social unrest in decades past, never before have Cubans experienced such a wholesale collapse.
The son of an alcoholic CIA officer, Ames failed upward through the agency ranks for 17 years until he attained a headquarters post of extraordinary sensitivity.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $20 billion from investors, a funding round that could value the company above $230 billion and deepen the intensifying race to build the world’s most powerful AI systems.
Far more than a first lady, Flores is one of Venezuela’s most powerful political figures. She built extraordinary influence over decades while largely operating from the shadows.
Dealing with a grief attack is similar in some ways to addressing a panic attack. Breathing slowly from the belly can help. So can repetitive physical movements like stomping your feet.
The new AI billionaires include Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo, who founded Scale AI, a data-labeling startup that received a $14.3 billion investment from Meta in June.
Thwaites’ ice starts on the land of Antarctica but flows so far out to sea that the edge of the glacier juts past the bedrock, becoming a tongue of ice that floats upon the waves.
Yonaguni is a reminder that Japan’s own security is linked to Taiwan’s. A Chinese attack on Taiwan could threaten Japan’s access to vital sea lanes and leave far-flung Okinawan islands vulnerable.
She has performed to raucous laughter in some of North America’s most prestigious comedy clubs and festivals, acted in movies, written brutally funny television shows.
The new AI billionaires include Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo, who founded Scale AI, a data-labeling startup that received a $14.3 billion investment from Meta in June.
This is what rare-earth processing looks like in the United States, where university researchers and startups are trying to wrest a slice of this small but vital industry from China.
While most plants form a symbiotic partnership with mycorrhizal fungi, the fairy lantern is a mycohetertroph which manages to cheat this system, and steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell within the soil
Trump also backed away from setting another deadline to reach a peace deal, after having previously floated Thanksgiving and Christmas as target dates.
Nusantara aims to be a “10-minute city,” meaning that anyone should be able to reach their destination within 10 minutes by walking, cycling or using public transportation.
From New York bakeries to Paris cafes, Ube’s vivid purple has taken the world by storm but the global craze is putting intense pressure on Filipino farmers battling climate change, shortages of planting material and shrinking government support.
Trump has used support from the tech companies to bolster his goal of U.S. leadership in AI and crypto, while securing victories for his “America First” economic agenda.
