In which Brooklyn man poses as an FBI agent to try to free Luigi with a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter gothamist.com/news/man-pos...

Love this project. Way to go @gothamist.com for bringing some transparency to the Christmas tree market gothamist.com/news/how-muc...

Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation - www.reuters.com/business/ope...

Not sure we've fully processed the fact that Trump Org's business is now 90% crypto. Here's how Trump Org income breaks down so far in 2025: - $466M - World Liberty Financial - $336M - $Trump meme coin - $33M - golf/resorts - $23M - licensing www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Appreciation post for Ervin, working a double shift keeping 3 Times Square safe

Federal drug prosecutions have dropped to their lowest level in decades as Trump focuses the FBI, DEA and ATF on immigration cases. Reuters used AI to parse 2 million dockets dating back to 1997. The numbers: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers - www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

Shot www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission. www.reuters.com/business/met...

De minimus comes for LEGO bricks!

Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family. www.reuters.com/business/med...

The second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Bravo to the caption writer: 'The fact that "Mrs. Meyer" is a Mississippi alligator doesn't bother either of them.' www.reuters.com/pictures/pet...

SCOOP: Confused US diplomats in South Africa asked the Trump admin if non-white minorities could apply for refugee status Trump official: it's intended for whites only www.reuters.com/world/africa...

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

By my count Rupe is pretty undefeated in media knife fights www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

His attorney argued his pardon by Trump for Jan. 6 offenses should also cover his child porn case ... apple.news/AUeUmzvjJQsO...

14 states and the District of Columbia provide coverage for eligible children regardless of immigration status, and seven states and DC do so for adults. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

More than a quarter of Chinatown/Lower East Side residents receive SNAP benefits - the OBBB will kick many off the roles for citizenship and work requirements documentedny.com/2025/07/16/c...

They were “pushing the boundaries of the law,” one official said. “Everyone at IRS felt the same way.” @williamturton.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The origin story of the Nazi documents discovered in the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court is probably wrong - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Perhaps the 3rd or 4rth most amusing thing about this story is apparently the Trump Phone ($47.45, get it?, for unlimited talk, text and data) also includes "telehealth access" .... www.404media.co/trump-mobile...

A mysterious person who calls himself Dave Lee gave Trump's World Liberty Financial $100 million. Reuters could not determine if Lee's a real person or if his UAE-based venture firm is anything more than a website reuters.com/business/fin...

OpenAI is a consumer products company now www.reuters.com/business/med...

Gov Abbott sits on the committee Trump appointed to figure out how to dissolve FEMA in favor of direct grants to states. So the same people calling on FEMA for help in Texas are going to play a big role in eliminating it www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

High-school freshman Austin Smith sank into depression from the merciless teasing and bullying he endured from his classmates over his weight. Reuters spoke to 4 of the estimated 100,000 teens who are taking Wegovy, which was approved for use among children over 12 in December 2022

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

DOGE officials have been demanding Department of Homeland Security staff use Grok over the past two months while shutting down use of all other commercial AI tools “They were pushing it to be used across the department."

China-born, crypto-billionaire Justin Sun was there by dint of his $18.5 million $TRUMP wallet, but so was a dude calling himself 'Ogle' with a $3.5 million wallet who wore sunglasses and a bandana to conceal his identity www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump used a screen shot from a Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo to make a fake case for 'white genocide' in South Africa www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on the issue of religious charter schools with Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself. The one-page ruling did not specify who voted with the 3 liberals www.reuters.com/world/us/spl...

The breach of TeleMessage, the Trump administration's second-favorite messaging app, went way beyond former National Security advisor Tim Waltz. Reuters identified 60 other Trump administration officials in the data link. Scoop: www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...

RFK jr blames school lunches for 'poisoning our kids.' Meanwhile, the Trump administration cancels a $600 million USDA program that was providing locally-grown fruits and vegetables to schools.

New: Before they went into business with Trump, crypto bros Chase Herro and Zak Folkman had their own startup, Dough Finance. It got hacked, money disappeared, and, well, read the story by @ldelevingne.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/how...

There's no bigger priority for JFK Jr than autism, and yet NIH funding for autism research is down 26% since the beginning of the year. Why? Research on diverse populations has been defunded in the anti-DEI and 'gender ideology' purge. Reuters exclusive www.reuters.com/business/hea...

FROM @reuters.com: Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

Heck yes, SPACE Correspondent: careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...

Get ready for the Jayden Daniels show

Gig alert: Reuters is hiring a US Race and Justice Correspondent to help build our coverage of race and justice across the nation. Please share widely! careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...

As the State Department resettles and offers citizenship to Afrikaner "refugees," HIV testing in South Africa has fallen, including of pregnant women in danger of passing it along to newborns. Scoop here: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

They found postcards, photographs and propaganda material from the Nazi regime, as well as thousands of notebooks belonging to the Nazi party. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The first American pope www.reuters.com/world/concla...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unilaterally cancelled 11 flights full of artillery shells bound for Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...

Read Reuters Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series about how Chinese fentanyl chemicals fueling America’s deadly opioid crisis are cheap and easy to get — and why authorities are failing to stop them: reut.rs/4m1LLZN

In the first piece in Reuters' Pulitzer Prize winning "Fentanyl Express," reporters ordered 12 chemicals that can be used to make fentanyl, right from their phones: www.reuters.com/investigates...

Gig alert: Reuters is hiring a correspondent to lead coverage at the intersection of race, justice, gender and government careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...

42 Dem lawmakers are calling for an investigation in the wake of Reuters exclusive that Elon Musk's SpaceX is bidding to build key parts of Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile defense system www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...

Jeferson Escalona, who DHS said was a “self-admitted” member of Tren de Aragua: "They're making false accusations about me. I don't belong to any gang." W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Reuters was denied access to the Texas facility housing Venezuelan migrants destined for El Salvador's CECOT prison. So we flew a small plane over and drone nearby and captured these images www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Woah www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...