The number of New Yorkers sleeping in homeless shelters rose 27 percent under Mayor Eric Adams’ four years in office, driven by overcrowded housing conditions and evictions, according to a new report. The Coalition for the Homeless released its annual “State of the Homeless” report, which found that the number of non-migrant New York City [...]
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The New York Police Department will once again close several blocks around Madison Square Garden during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday. In a post on X, the NYPD said the same “secure zone” implemented around the arena on Monday, when President Donald Trump attended the game, will be in effect. Unlike Game [...]
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In Europe, two divergent paths are emerging as countries grapple with what to do about drug prices, affecting both pharma and patients — and testing the influence of the U.S.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s push to reshape the state’s housing landscape ended with nary a whimper last week, with no votes as National Homeownership Month began. His sweeping Building Up Illinois Developments plan stalled before the legislature adjourned, leaving the most ambitious housing proposals with little room to maneuver until fall. His plan sought to […]
The number of prescription drug shortages in the U.S. fell by 23% last year, but a new analysis found other troubling signs about medicines in short supply.
Plus a buried alcohol study gets published, and a Biosecure update.
Donald Trump’s policies, especially his war on Iran, are having the unintended effect of accelerating the very green transition project he scorns. The Left must ensure the renewable energy build-out advances the well-being of the US working class.
For the first time in the 21st century, the United States has approved a new sunscreen ingredient. Well, new to us. It’s called bemotrizinol, also known as BEMT, and it’s been available in Europe and Asia for years. But the peculiar way that sunscreen is regulated in the United States — as an over-the-counter drug […]
A few weeks after announcing the master developer for the redevelopment of Penn Station, Amtrak released the first renderings of the project on Monday. Penn Transformation Partners (PTP), a joint venture led by Halmar and Skanska, is leading the long-awaited redesign of the detested Midtown commuter hub, which aims to transform the station from cramped, [...]
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The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information.
New York officials on Monday broke ground on phase two of the Second Avenue Subway, which will bring the Q train to 125th Street. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that excavation has begun at East 119th Street and Second Avenue, where next year a tunnel-boring machine will begin mining the new subway tunnels from 120th Street [...]
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The UK government’s £1.1bn AI hardware plan anchors a new national compute strategy, including a £750m supercomputer in Edinburgh and targeted support for UK chip startups, alongside major private commitments from AMD and Nebius worth nearly £4bn, and a growing…
Guangdong province aims to build over 3 million charging facilities by the end of 2027 to meet the demand of 8 million NEVs.
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Hospital execs say they're working to mitigate the impacts of the looming cuts.
Policymakers have been making the case that more supply is a better check on housing costs than rent stabilization. May apartment rental data backs up that narrative. Rents ticked up modestly last month, the fifth consecutive month of sequential growth. But May’s reading was the lowest for that month since 2010, according to apartment data […]
The biggest U.S. health insurer is changing how it pays for lactation counseling, and it could cut payment for many providers.
The Chinese authorities have announced a reform of the hukou system that ties citizens to a particular region and fosters inequality. But proclamations of the system’s death are premature, as powerful social groups have an interest in maintaining it.
The policies apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS, which approves applications for immigrants to work and become citizens.
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Leaders in Akron, a heartland city nearly 40 miles south of Cleveland, hope to shed the city’s “Rust Belt” label and drive its emerging revival by making it easier to build new homes. To achieve the objective, planners believe they’re on the verge of eliminating minimum lot sizes to counteract a shrinking-city paradox. Population loss […]
An NIH advisor told researchers gathered at the American Diabetes Association conference that MAHA goals match the agency's priorities.
The House unanimously approved a summer pilot that would let cities and towns extend alcohol service to 3 a.m. and create designated outdoor drinking districts from June 8 through July 31.
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Though New York City’s storefront vacancy rate has rebounded since the pandemic, some neighborhoods still have retail vacancy rates as high as 20 percent, according to a new report. Released on Thursday by the city’s Comptroller Mark Levine, the report, titled “Who’s Minding the Storefront? An Analysis of Storefront Vacancies,” found that while the citywide vacancy [...]
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My family's custodianship of David's tomb suggests that civic life begins before citizenship and survives beyond sovereignty. The United States at its 250th anniversary must grapple with the fact that it has spent decades breaking with the principles of its own founding documents.
“I believe deeply in universal health care. But universal care must also mean universal safety and accountability, not merely universal access.”
The White House has used the program to reward companies that help its political goals.
New York City will expand its use of cutting-edge sensor technology to track road usage and inform safer, more data-driven street design. Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn on Tuesday announced that the agency will install privacy-protected sensors, first piloted in 2023, at about 80 additional locations across the five boroughs, bringing the total to [...]
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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Hikma Pharmaceutical did not infringe patents held by Amarin in a decision with implications for lawsuits over so-called skinny labels.
For pancreatic cancer patients, the surge in interest for an exciting new drug is leaving them fearful about when they might get the treatment or if there will be enough…
In May 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, arrived at an ICE detention facility in his New Jersey city and asked for a tour. Though he was initially let inside the facility’s gate, he was soon confronted by about a dozen federal law enforcement officers and asked to leave. And so he did. For […]
Assessing the health secretary's biggest challenges, and a look at new rules that inject politics into the NIH.