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After 20 years, this year's annual Code Conference from Vox Media will be Kara Swisher's last year hosting and organizing the event, Swisher told Axios. Why it matters: Swisher, who recently rejoined Vox Media from the New York Times, plans to turn her attention toward new projects that explore topics…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New York state health officials warned last week that hundreds of people may have been infected with the polio virus, based on recent wastewater testing in different counties within New York state. We asked Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital,…

Why it matters: On Monday, GlobalFoundries and Qualcomm signed a multi-billion dollar revenue agreement that more than doubles their existing long-term semiconductor partnership. The announcement came during the one-day CEO Summit in Washington being co-hosted by Ford Motor Company, GlobalFoundries, and Applied Materials. The deal means Qualcomm will stick around…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nolan Arenado and Paul DeJong both homered and drove in four runs to help the St. Louis Cardinals outlast the New York Yankees 12-9 on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep. St. Louis won its season-high seventh straight in a slugfest that took 4 hours, 25 minutes…

Thousands of fans swarmed into Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York, on Saturday for the Rock The Bells Festival, which showcased a lineup of hip-hop royalty deemed a coronation of the culture by spectators and artists alike. Founder LL Cool J reignited the festival after he won a court…

The CDC is expected to update its COVID-19 guidance for schools in the coming days. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has declared monkeypox a national health emergency. And the New York Health Department has warned about the possible spread of polio. Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's…

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent his first bus of migrants to New York City Friday after the city’s Democratic mayor decried the idea of sending migrants to other states, according to a Friday press release. “Because of President Biden’s continued refusal to acknowledge the crisis caused by his open…

Posted August 5, 2022 at 3:33pm The Senate is "on track" to start debating a roughly $300 billion deficit-reducing budget package Saturday after Democrats reached agreement late Thursday on changes to the bill needed to secure 50 votes, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said.  The changes, the New York Democrat…

The conspiracy theory writes itself. Start looking, and you’ll notice how many New York Times crossword puzzles are co-constructed (the preferred term for what most people would refer to as co-written) by a professional crossword constructor and someone with a day job—it’s hard not to see all the artists, web…

Author of the article: Reuters Noeleen Walder and Tom Hals Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, May 2, 2022. Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP /Getty Images NEW YORK — Twitter Inc on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk’s claims in…