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NYC Mayor Eric Adams refuses to quit, says the only one to beat Mamdani

Adams dismissed Mamdani and former governor Andrew Cuomo, both fellow Democrats, as 'two spoiled brats who are not like us'

Trump says he'll host next year's G20 summit at his Doral resort in Florida

In his first term, Trump tried to host a separate global summit at the club, located in Doral, but backed down after criticism from his own party about the propriety of doing so

National Guard not needed to curb gun violence: Maryland leaders tell Trump

Baltimore reported 201 homicides in 2024, a 23% decline from 2023 and the city's lowest annual total in more than a decade, as shootings and killings have sharply fallen over the past two years

Trump executive order renames Department of Defense as Department of War

Trump allies in Congress have introduced legislation to cement the Pentagon's new title, as only lawmakers hold authority to create, dissolve or rename federal departments

Anthropic to pay $1.5 bn to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot data

A federal judge dealt the case a mixed ruling in June, finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn't illegal but that Anthropic wrongfully acquired books through pirate websites

Warner Bros sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Bugs Bunny

It's the third big Hollywood studio to sue Midjourney in Los Angeles federal court after Disney and Universal filed a joint lawsuit in June

US employers add only 22,000 jobs in August amid policy uncertainty

The Labour Department said Friday that hiring decelerated from 79,000 in July

Foreign troops in Ukraine would be 'legitimate targets' before deal: Putin

Putin also dismissed the idea of peacekeeping forces in Ukraine after a final peace deal, saying no one should doubt that Moscow would comply with a treaty to halt its 3-year full-scale invasion

Japan PM Ishiba hails Trump's order to cut tariffs on autos, other imports

The reduction to 15 per cent from the previous 25 per cent was agreed between the two sides on July 22

US likely added modest 80K jobs in August, sign of cooling labour market

It would be a slight improvement on July's 73,000 but still offer more evidence that the American job market has cooled significantly from last year

Death toll from Afghan quake jumps to over 2,200 as aid agencies seek funds

The shallow, 6.0-magnitude quake struck the mountainous and remote eastern part of the country late Sunday, leveling villages and trapping people under rubble

Trump hosts top tech CEOs at White House dinner, Musk absent from list

It was the latest example of a delicate two-way courtship between Trump and tech leaders, several of whom attended his inauguration

Zohran Mamdani likely to be NYC mayor unless 2 of his rivals quit: Trump

Trump, who spoke as he hosted a dinner with tech executives, went on, to say 'I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one-on-one, and I think that's a race that could be won'

Trump to sign executive order rebranding Pentagon as 'Department of War'

In the meantime, Trump will authorise the Pentagon to use secondary titles, so the department can go by its original name

Kennedy Jr grilled in Senate on vaccine policies; Trump says he means well

Medical groups and several Democrats in Congress have called for Kennedy to be fired, and his exchanges with Democratic senators on the panel repeatedly devolved into shouting, from both sides

China's Xi, North Korea's Kim pledge deeper ties during meeting in Beijing

Xi highlighted the traditional friendship between China and North Korea and pledged to consolidate and boost relations

Trump signals upcoming talks with Putin after call with Zelenskyy

At a White House tech dinner, President Trump said he will soon speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin after his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, noting a "very good dialogue"

Google ordered to pay $425.7 mn in damages for improper smartphone snooping

Google had denied that it was improperly tracking the online activity of people who thought they had shielded themselves with privacy controls

Trump admin scraps Biden-era plan of airlines paying for flight disruptions

In a document posted on Thursday, President Donald Trump's Transportation Department said its plan to scrap the proposed rule was consistent with Department and administration priorities

US considers ban on wholesale shopping, other visa curbs for Iranians

Potential travel and other restrictions could soon be imposed on the delegations from Iran, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and, perhaps surprisingly, Brazil