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President Trump is expected to announce a joint venture Tuesday between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in computing infrastructure to power artificial intelligence, according to two people familiar with the announcement.The venture, called Stargate, adds to significant investments by technology companies in U.S. data centers, huge buildings filled with servers that provide computing power. According to sources, the total could reach $500 billion in four years. The three companies intend to contribute funds to the venture, which will be open to other investors and will start with a first data center in Texas.The joint venture announcement is set to be an early trophy for Trump, even though the effort to set up the joint venture predates his taking office on Mond...

President Trump moved quickly to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization on Monday, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation's position as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.In an executive order issued about eight hours after he was sworn in, Trump cited a number of reasons for the withdrawal, including the WHO decision “mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic” and “failure to adopt urgently needed reforms”. He said the agency demands “unfairly burdensome payments” from the United States and complained that China pays less.The move was not unexpected. Trump has been railing against the WHO since 2020, when he attacked the agency for its approach to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened to withhold U.S. fundin...

Gazans realized the scale of the devastation of their old neighborhoods and Israelis awaited news on the three newly released hostages as a day-long ceasefire between Hamas and Israel continued Monday.With the war's 15-month lull, Palestinians returned to the parts of the Gaza Strip from which they fled, picking their way through vast areas of rubble and trying to salvage what they could – a sofa, a mattress, a chair or a crate – from the rubble of their old homes.“People can barely recognize the destroyed places where they lived,” said Montaser Bahja, an English teacher, a day after visiting his old neighborhood in the northern city of Jabaliya.In a video shared with The New York Times, Mr. Bahja, 50, can be seen running through the streets with his son Alhassan, 21, and trying to reconci...

An 18-year-old British man admitted on Monday to killing three girls and attempting to kill 10 others during a brutal knife attack during a dance class last July in Southport, England.The defendant, Axel Rudakubana, unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges against him on the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court.Mr Rudakubana admitted killing Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, who were taking part in a Taylor Swift-themed bracelet-making and dance class on July 29 during the summer break from school. , and the attempted murder of 10 people, including eight children and two adults.After the stabbings, police searched Mr. Rudakubana's home and said they found ricin, a lethal toxin, and a PDF file titled "Military Studies in Jihad Against Tyrants: ...

Many tech leaders and companies have courted President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, they visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago, fawned over him on X and donated to his inaugural fund.But TikTok has taken these methods to the next level.As the Chinese-owned social app fights a federal law that bans it in the United States unless it is sold, it has publicly referenced and then thanked Trump for his support in statements and videos since Friday. He even embedded his flattery directly into the app so his 170 million American users could see it:“As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok has returned to the United States!,” read a pop-up message on Sunday.TikTok CEO Shou Chew filmed his own video thanking Trump last week, also refe...

Three years ago, when Bob and Sandy Curtis moved into an upscale continuing care retirement community in Port Washington, NY, they thought they had found the best possible solution for senior care.In exchange for a steep entry fee — about $840,000, financed by the sale of the Long Island home they've owned for nearly 50 years — they would be taken care of for the rest of their lives at Harborside. They selected a contract from several options that set a stable monthly fee at about $6,000 for both of them and that would reimburse half of the entry fee to their estate after their deaths.“This was the final chapter,” Mr. Curtis, 88, said. “That was the deal I made.”CCRCs, or community living plans, provide increasing levels of care on a single campus, from independent and assisted living to n...

The sounds of celebration replaced those of explosions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as a fragile ceasefire took effect after 470 days of war, allowing some hostages to return home to Israel, Palestinians imprisoned in Israel to be released and the displaced people of Gaza search for what remained of their homes. Under the terms of the hard-won deal, fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas militants stopped at 11:15 a.m., raising hopes of a more lasting end to a war that has plunged the Middle East into fear and uncertainty .The first hostages – three women seized when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 – were released shortly after. Early Monday morning, the Israeli Prison Service said it had released 90 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, where they were welcomed by emotional ...

Putting that argument aside, there are certainly some diplomatic opportunities Trump can seize, although history and ominous recent warnings suggest he could mollify his adversaries and allies with the threat of military action if he doesn't get his way . (See: Iran, Greenland, Panama.)Here's a scorecard to keep handy in the first few months.In the fog of war, a potential deal with UkraineThere is very little evidence that Putin is eager to reach a deal that would get him out of a war that has already cost Russia nearly 200,000 dead and more than half a million wounded. But the assumption is that he is looking for a way out. Since his televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump has promised just that: a deal “in 24 hours,” or even completed before he was sworn in.Now, it's no...

TikTok will be blocked in the US after the Supreme Court upheld a law effectively banning the app. TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform, has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers for its national security risks and its ties to China. New York Times business reporter Sapna Maheshwari examines security concerns and reactions to the news.

While Kennedy's adoption of salvage farms may be new, the concept dates back nearly a century. In 1935, the government opened the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Ky., to research and treat addiction. Over the years, residents included Chet Baker and William S. Burroughs (who described the institution in his novel "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict"). The program had high relapse rates and was contaminated by drug experiments on human subjects. In 1975, as local treatment centers began to proliferate across the country, the program was shut down.In America, therapeutic communities for addiction treatment became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Some, like Synanon, have become notorious for abusive and cult-like environments. There are now perhaps 3,000 around the worl...