It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

Over the past three years similar reports have circulated of rising bacterial infections, flare-ups of old viruses becoming more common, and children landing in hospital with diseases not usually seen in young, healthy people. One explanation offered by public health leaders has been “immunity debt”—the idea that precautions taken in the covid pandemic suppressed routine exposures to circulating pathogens, leaving people more vulnerable to them when restrictions were lifted. The theory landed in the public consciousness at the right moment. A simple idea that sounded like science, it soothed a public seeking answers just as the world was returning to a semblance of normality. And it served a policy function, allowing governments to focus on economic recovery. But its explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year. A 2024 analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that invasive group A strep infections saw their most dramatic year-on-year increase from 2021 to 2022, well after most precautions had been lifted in the US. Rates have been abnormally high since then, raising questions about what might be behind the trend. A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis.

Federal agents are stepping up their actions against protesters and, apparently, the press

The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight

Chris Pratt defended his cousin-in-law Robert Kennedy Jr. during an appearance on Bill Maher’s 'Club Random' podcast.

One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

On a recent vacation to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, I asked the manager of a beach shop what the crabs needed. “Just food and water. Don’t need to take them for a walk, nothing.” How long do they live? He had heard of one that lasted seven years, but “you never know,” he said. “One year, one week, one month.” Few people know the truth about the crustacean that briefly resides in their child’s bedroom: that it was meant to live for at least 30 years. That it was taken from the wild. And that it was doomed even before you brought it home. This quiet tragedy of the dead-before-its-time hermit crab repeats itself over and over every summer. If it’s ever going to stop, crab advocates say, we need to reconsider everything we know about these creatures.

Trump has pushed for using the military to thwart cartels he blames for the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the U.S.

'We have not reached any agreement,' a visibly annoyed President Claudia Sheinbaum said after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced a partnership.

Messages are often left on victims' bodies by cartels seeking to threaten their rivals or punish behavior they claim violates their rules.

Two women, later identified as Flanagan and the other party, can be seen on police body camera video standing outside the restaurant as an officer pulls up. As the officer gets out of his cruiser, Flanagan tells him she wants him to "turn his body cam off." "Protocol is that you turn it off if a citizen requests to turn it off," Flanagan, of Warwick, says. During the recorded interaction, Flanagan repeatedly asks officers to turn off their body cameras, insisting it was protocol. Newport Police Department protocol allows for the footage to be turned off if a witness or victim requests it and the scene is non-confrontational, among other situations. "They want you guys to leave. Let's just leave. Let's just make it easy," an officer can be heard saying on the video. Flanagan was handcuffed and placed into a police cruiser first, the video shows. "I'm an A.G., I'm an A.G," Flanagan repeats as the cruiser door shuts.

Most people not deeply involved in the artificial intelligence frenzy may not have noticed, but perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent than humans, even becoming a threat to humanity, came to a screeching halt Aug. 7. That was the day when the most widely followed AI company, OpenAI, released GPT-5, an advanced product that the firm had long promised would put competitors to shame and launch a new revolution in this purportedly revolutionary technology. As it happened, GPT-5 was a bust. It turned out to be less user-friendly and in many ways less capable than its predecessors in OpenAI’s arsenal. It made the same sort of risible errors in answering users’ prompts, was no better in math (or even worse), and not at all the advance that OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, had been talking up.

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”

After a confusing few days of moderation, the trans community on Bluesky fears they’re being targeted for posts wishing ill on the anti-trans billionaire.

Archaeologists say they have uncovered an ancient temple in Bolivia that may offer clues about Tiwanaku, a lost society that predates the Inca Empire.

The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.

Restaurant executives sound like they’re operating on different planets these days. In the fast-food and slightly higher-end fast-casual world, caution is the mood. Cava and Chipotle missed Wall Street forecasts and warned that customers are getting more price sensitive. McDonald’s is seeing double-digit traffic declines among its lowest-income diners, while Wendy’s also says budget-conscious customers are pulling back. Meanwhile at sit-down casual-dining chains, the tone is more optimistic. Chili’s has become the poster child for the group, reporting a 24% jump in U.S. same-store sales last quarter compared with a year earlier. Over the past three years, shares of Chili’s owner Brinker International have returned over 300%.

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can’t access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT “can give incorrect responses.”

On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.