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New York City doesn’t have enough hotel rooms for hordes of visitors coming to this summer’s FIFA World Cup and should suspend the current restrictions on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, business leaders told Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Friday. Groups including the Partnership for New York City and […]
My first interest in J.R.R. Tolkien was apparently caused by the infamous Barbara Remington artwork used for the covers of the Ballantine mass-market editions. When my father bought his paperback copies of The Lord of the Rings at the Cornell University bookstore in 1969, the three volumes came with a free poster of the Map […]
The World Cup 2026 draw was held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2025, officially setting the stage and soccer betting favorites for FIFA’s biggest tournament to date. The draw marked the men’s World Cup’s first return to the United States since the iconic 1994 […]
A lawsuit has been filed this week in Nevada by a high-stakes gambler and a businessman, which alleges violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against executives at Resorts World Las Vegas. Gambler Robert (R.J.) Cipriani and businessman James Russell filed the suit, which makes allegations against former and current executives at […]
An Airbus A321 is being assembled in the final assembly line hangar at the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama. Michael Spooneybarger | Reuters Aircraft leasing firm Air Lease, founded by industry mogul Steven Udvar-Házy, agreed to sell itself in a deal that would take it private to a group of investors for $7.4 […]
Sam Altman’s identity verification venture World is launching its eye-scanning Orb product in the U.K. World LONDON — World, the biometric identity verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is set to launch in the U.K. this week. The venture, which uses a spherical eye-scanning device called the Orb to scan people’s eyes, will […]
Help Wanted. Looking for American researchers. As President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, rival nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside or become disenchanted. For decades, trying to compete with American institutions and companies has […]
When Osaka first hosted the World Expo in 1970, a quarter-century after World War II, Japan’s economy was newly affluent and expanding so rapidly it was hailed as an economic miracle. The Expo broadcast that momentum to the world. It was the first World Expo — a tradition dating to 1851 where countries gather to […]
President Donald Trump vowed to make America “the undisputed Bitcoin superpower and the crypto capital of the world” in remarks to the Blockworks Digital Assets Summit on Thursday. A pre-recorded video address by Trump was played at the summit in New York City. The president said his team was ending former President Joe Biden’s administration’s “regulatory war […]
Pierce Alquist is a transplanted New Yorker living and working in the publishing scene in Boston. Don’t worry if she fooled you, the red hair is misleading. She’s a literature in translation devotee and reviewer and lover of small, independent presses. A voracious traveler and foodie, you can find her in her kitchen making borscht […]
