Politics
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A Judge Just Blocked DHS From Seizing 17 Million Truck Drivers’ Records — Including 500,000 New Yorkers’
Twenty-two states sued. A Bush-appointed judge froze the handover of the national CDLIS database — names, birthdates and Social Security numbers for 17 million commercial drivers — and ordered DHS to return what it already took. The hearing is Thursday. What’s at stake, and what isn’t.
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Claude Fable 5 Users Report Rapid Token Consumption and Rising Bills, Data Shows
Since Claude Fable 5’s June 9 launch, users have documented usage-limit windows exhausted in minutes and metered bills reaching thousands of dollars a month — a look at the numbers, Anthropic’s explanation, and the pricing changes that followed.
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Opinion: Mamdani’s ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Is the Rare City Hall Win You Can Actually Feel
USA Times editorial: Mayor Mamdani’s new click-to-cancel rule, taking effect October 1, deserves more credit than it’s gotten — for the policy and for how fast City Hall moved on it.
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NYC’s New ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Takes Effect October 1, Requiring Subscription Cancellations to Match Sign-Up Ease
New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has adopted a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily as they signed up. Mayor Mamdani announced the final rule July 10; it takes effect October 1 citywide.
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Mamdani Reverses Course, Says New York City Lacks Authority to Arrest Netanyahu
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration concluded the city cannot enforce the ICC’s arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing a year-long campaign pledge. A look at the legal and historical record, from Clinton’s 2000 signature to this week’s reversal.
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NPR: A Case Study in Presidential Coverage
Final census: 21,904 NPR URL/headline records explicitly name the sitting U.S. president by surname across Obama’s second term, Trump’s first term, Biden’s term and Trump’s second term through July 17, 2026. The wording is measurably more negative for both Trump periods, but lexical sentiment alone does not establish partisan bias or answer whether public funding…