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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction …

Americans are being advised to practice caution when traveling to a Caribbean island because of an outbreak of a deadly virus. The CDC has placed a Level 2 travel warning on Cuba after local officials raised the alarm over an outbreak of Chikungunya virus, a painful viral infection that can leave victims bedridden for months. The disease is spread by …

Last month, AT&T CEO John Stankey sent an unusually blunt memo to his staff. There was a lot in his 2,500-word missive, but one part really stood out to me. “Some of you may have started your tour with this company expecting an ’employment deal’ rooted in loyalty,” Stankey said. “We have consciously shifted away from some of these elements.” …

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Hulk Hogan had four months to live, and he had had enough at the ShopRite. The grocery store in Montgomery, New York, was full of fans of the Hulkster, 200 or so. They had been waiting for a rare …

The Fastest-Selling Cars in America Are Used EVs  Bloomberg.com Fuel Savings Are Enough to Cover the Payments on My Used 2022 Nissan LEAF  Torque News Middle-aged EVs sell in 22 days, finds Autotrader  motortradenews.com Fastest-selling cars in US are used EVs  Times of India ‘Middle-aged’ EVs surge as UK’s fastest-selling used cars  AM-online Source link

My family lives in a heavily-trafficked part of Brooklyn, and most nights you’ll hear the occasional whine of fire engine sirens through our living room window. But the torrent of sirens early on the morning of September 17 was enough to briefly rouse me from bed. I found out later that day that a five-alarm fire involving more than 200 …

The U.S. government is considering imposing massive tariffs on semiconductor products unless manufacturers can match those volumes with chips produced in the United States. Under the current draft, companies that do not match foreign-sourced chip volumes with domestic output over time could face tariffs that, in some versions, reach 100%. The idea is an act of forceful action to speed …

In early August, one day before releasing GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted an image of the Death Star on social media. It was just the latest declaration by Altman that his new AI model would change the world forever. “We have discovered, invented, whatever you want to call it, something extraordinary that is going to reshape the course of …

Nintendo of America President and Chief Operating Officer Doug Bowser has announced his retirement, which starts on December 31, 2025. The announcement comes just shy of four months after the successful release of the Nintendo Switch 2, which is not only the fastest-selling Nintendo hardware ever, but the fastest-selling gaming hardware in U.S. history. Bowser exits Nintendo after more than …

QUICK FACTS Name: Cairo Fossil Forest Location: Cairo, New York Coordinates: 42.320497982992606, -74.04507745235895 Why it’s incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York. The forest holds some of the oldest trees in the world, as …