Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration is putting $29.2 million into NYU's planned Quantum Fabrication Facility. In return, the city gets three board seats and 15% of NYU's proceeds from inventions made with city-funded tools.
A city investigation found a bus carrying six nonverbal autistic children, ages 6 to 8, wandered Brooklyn for more than four hours while parents tracked it with AirTags. One child arrived lying in urine.
Two NYPD officers from the 114th Precinct performed two-finger CPR on a 1-month-old boy who stopped breathing in Astoria, Queens, until he started breathing again. He has since gone home.
A Brooklyn federal judge ruled the Justice Department had no valid basis to sue over NYC laws limiting cooperation with ICE, a week after an ICE agent shot a man in Marble Hill.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI testified under oath to the New York City Council only after a subpoena, and couldn't explain how Speaker Julie Menin found a sexualized Grok image of herself in seconds.
Rescuers believed Beck Weathers was dead on Everest in 1996. Then he opened his eyes, thought of his family and began an extraordinary journey home.
Three children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Families and neighbors are mourning as police investigate.
The Covent Garden building that has housed Rules since 1798, where Dickens, Chaplin and Bowie dined, has been given to the National Trust in a gift valued at £11 million.
Storm gusts sent a two-story inflatable pumpkin at Phillips Farm in Cary, N.C., tumbling past a church and down the road. Nobody was hurt, and the videos became instant memes.
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A 10-year-old Jack Russell–chihuahua mix bolted from a Yellowstone cabin on Sept. 10. Volunteers finally caught her on Oct. 14 using a trap baited with her family's clothes instead of food.
One of only three known Nanotyrannus skeletons is on view at Sotheby's in Manhattan before an Oct. 27 auction, and paleontologists are furious it could end up in private hands.
A family of barn owls is raising young in a rooftop water tower on the Upper West Side. Birders say it's the first documented barn owl nest in Manhattan, and crowds gather nightly to watch.
Ron Wallace's 3,156-pound pumpkin outweighs the current Guinness record by nearly 300 pounds. Meanwhile, a Minnesota teacher won California's famous weigh-off for a fifth time.
A gang disabled alarms and used the winery's own forklifts to haul away about 30,000 bottles of Solaia, Tignanello and other top Tuscan wines worth an estimated €5 million.
Nine years after the first tease, Tesla's next-gen Roadster finally arrived — and it flew, flipped, drove upside down and leapt over a Semi. Here's everything Tesla revealed.