Fulfilling His Promise, Mamdani’s Rent Board Votes Through Stabilized Rent Freeze

Popsicles, paletas and now rents: all frozen. The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved 0% rent increases for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on…

The lucrative business of doom thrives on despair. Our duty is to hope

Radical optimism is a decision about how to behave under uncertainty. It involves acting as though a better world is possible before we even have…

Dueling Plans to Restore Public Safety Funding, City Jobs, Emerge in City Council

Two dueling proposals to restore some of the public safety and jobs cuts baked into in the recently-passed 2026-27 city budget have emerged from the…

Trump DOJ two new INDICTMENTS after IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN!!

OMG! Trump has EPIC MELTDOWN as Tiny CROWD SIZE REVEALED

Hong Kong ‘free birth’ couple hope to reunite with son Danny under gov’t supervision

A Hong Kong couple at the centre of a child welfare saga have said they would be willing to accept government supervision if they can…

USA vs Turkey: LIVE watch party of 2026 World Cup

Mayor Johnson’s Team Secretly Offered $3.3 Billion To Buy Back City’s Parking Meters, Other Bidder Says

The city's bid was $800,000 more than the the next highest one, alderpeople were told during a City Council hearing Thursday. Many ripped the Johnson…

LIVE: Trump participates in a dinner with American farmers at White House

Controversy over pride flags planned for Egypt – Iran Match

The anticipated match between the Egyptian and Iranian national teams at the 2026 World Cup has transformed from a long-awaited football event into a widespread…

Voters Want Fighters, Not Complicity

Today is Orwell’s birthday. We’re celebrating with the recording of the Mrs. Orwell live-taping – available in full this Sunday, only on Patreon and Substack…

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Will NZ’s workplace safety overhaul cut red tape – or simply shift responsibility?

The government’s proposed workplace safety reforms aim to create simpler rules for employers. Critics argue they may also move risk onto workers.

America’s oldest hospital preserves the nation’s history of medicine and health care

Most bees are solitary and don’t live in hives. Climate change risks them starving

Scientists don’t know enough about the food habits of less social bees. Here’s why that urgently needs to change.

BMA votes against use of discredited ‘IHRA’ antisemitism definition

The British Medical Association (BMA) conference has voted overwhelmingly in support of a motion against the NHS’s use of the so-called ‘IHRA definition’ of antisemitism…

Nonprofit aims to help displaced workers as businesses adopt artificial intelligence

Blackburn Muslim family’s home firebombed. MSM, politicians silent

At 1.30am on Tuesday 16 June, two white supremacists approached the home of a Blackburn Muslim family, torched their car and filmed it. The attack…

Judge rules Vermont Avenue bus project will move ahead, for now, without bike lanes

The $400 million Metro project will add dedicated bus lanes along a more than 12-mile-long stretch of Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.

Ben Roberts-Smith wants there to be less to forget

The decorated soldier turned accused war criminal had to miss the Australian War Memorial’s new Anzac Hall ceremony due to a stomach flu. Terrible timing!…