Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other New York City leaders are challenging the controversial business model that underpins Amazon’s vast delivery network, and the fallout from the fight could extend far beyond the five boroughs. City Council members hope to pass the Delivery Protection Act, a bill that would force Amazon, FedEx and other logistics companies … Read more
A US district judge has granted Nintendo a £3.4 million ($4.5 million) default judgment against James Williams, the former Reddit moderator known online as “Archbox”, after he failed to respond to a lawsuit over alleged Nintendo Switch piracy. After putting Switch pirate Gary Bowser behind bars and targeting Yuzu emulator software, in 2024 Nintendo went … Read more
George Russell ended a barren run without a Formula 1 victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix by just 0.196s over Max Verstappen, with championship leader Kimi Antonelli recovering from 16th to fifth, thanks in part to a pair of crash safety cars. first pit stops. His biggest initial cause for concern was “nipping” into the … Read more
There’s a lot riding on SpaceX’s upcoming Starship launch, both physically and conceptually, as the company prepares the giant rocket for its biggest test flight to date. SpaceX is targeting September 28 for Starship Flight 14, the next liftoff of its industry-shaking launch vehicle, and plans to fly the towering spacecraft farther and longer than … Read more
Alcohol consumption has decreased across the United States in recent years, particularly among adults under age 40, but there is one older demographic in which more people are drinking than before the Covid-19 pandemic – and more are doing so heavily, according to a new study.For the first time since before the pandemic, the percentage … Read more
Decrease article font size Increase article font size At least two people are injured and five are missing after a building collapsed following a powerful explosion in the tourist district of Plaka in the Greek capital, near the ancient Acropolis, on Friday morning. The explosion caused a two-story building to collapse and the two injured … Read more
Some Republicans are increasingly concerned that two key Senate races once considered critical to maintaining their majority are slipping out of their hands. More than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives acknowledge that North Carolina and Georgia appear less competitive than the party once anticipated and that decisions need to be made … Read more
The UN human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist of companies it says are involved in violations of Palestinian human rights through business links with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The vast majority of the total of 214 companies, which are based in 11 countries, are Israeli. Five of … Read more
The Surge is your weekly political sanity check: what matters, what could, and what is just political theater. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Surge, Slate’s political newsletter. Oh, do you think it’s “bad” or “completely and obviously illegal” that Donald Trump used taxpayer dollars to … Read more
Today’s tips from NYT Strands will be easy if you are good at math. Strands, the elevated New York Times word search game, requires the player to put a spin on the classic word search. Words can be formed from linked letters: up, down, left, right or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting … Read more