The new group, which will be led by Jim Walden, a lawyer who ran for mayor last year, will run attack ads and be prepared to sue the Mamdani administration.
With affordable housing in extremely high demand, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is announcing plans to reduce red tape and get people into those apartments faster.
Rising demand, municipal dysfunction and drought have pushed Corpus Christi to the edge of a water emergency, offering a cautionary tale for the rest of the country.
OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.
“If you think there’s a lot of money in politics now,” Marc Andreessen said in 2000, “you haven’t seen anything yet.” His firm is now the biggest known spender on this campaign cycle.
The drops in U.S. scores go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows.
The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully.
Temporary truces have become a tool of performative diplomacy, an end in themselves rather than a prelude to a lasting settlement, analysts say.
The first half of May is foreshadowing the future of Indo-Pacific security. Why it matters: Long-term competition between the U.S., China and their friends — on AI, chips, cybersecurity, freedom of navigation, narrative influence, supply chains and more — is reshaping the world. In just two weeks: - The U.S. and Japan, participating in Balikatan drills, fired a Tomahawk missile with a Typhon launcher and ship-sinking Type 88 missiles from the Philippines — a first and, from Beijing's view, a provocation. - Japan inked a defense cooperation agreement with Indonesia, hot on the heels of loosened arms-exporting restrictions. - Taiwan's legislature approved $25 billion in special funding to buy weapons. The move follows months of…
Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, fears the rising risk of unpopular AI and told us the solution might be a reorg of government and business. He offered two megapoints in a conversation Tuesday at OpenAI's new office in Washington: - The AI companies and government are so interdependent — the companies need light regs, contracts; government needs AI systems — that it might require a new public-private hybrid to manage them. - The AI companies could get crushed by bad politics if they don't find ways to share any wealth they create, much like Alaska shares oil & gas revenue with its residents. "People need to feel like they're gonna have a piece of this and participate in it ," Lehane said. "You can't talk beyond…