Twenty-two states sued. A Bush-appointed judge froze the handover of the national CDLIS database — names, birthdates and Social Security numbers for…
Ago 19, 2026
Since Claude Fable 5's June 9 launch, users have documented usage-limit windows exhausted in minutes and metered bills reaching thousands of dollars…
Ago 11, 2026
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…
Ago 10, 2026
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has adopted a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily…
Jul 25, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration concluded the city cannot enforce the ICC's arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing a…
Jul 25, 2026
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…
Jul 17, 2026
In a draft enforcement policy statement approved 2-0 on Aug. 19, the FTC says undisclosed use of personal data to set individual…
Ago 26, 2026
"Many participants" said tightening would likely be necessary if inflation didn't decline, according to minutes of the July 28–29 FOMC meeting released…
Ago 25, 2026
The DOT's comment window closed Aug. 21 on a proposal to loosen — and possibly repeal — the 2011 Full Fare Rule…
Ago 24, 2026
Amazon put $5,001,377 behind the Five Borough Jobs Campaign — 97% of its disclosed 2026 funding — to fight a bill the…
Ago 23, 2026
Regulators have clawed back more than $1 billion from delivery and rideshare platforms — and the biggest wins came from state and…
Ago 22, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is distributing more than $23.8 million to 640,038 drivers and diners nationwide — redress from its 2024 case…
Ago 20, 2026
Most event movies own the box office for a single week. These held on for a month or more. The endurance kings,…
Ago 31, 2026
There is a shape a box-office week can take that is so rare it has occurred exactly once in twenty years of…
Ago 30, 2026
Blockbusters cluster in a few launch windows and leave the rest of the year empty. Mapping 20 years of event movies to…
Ago 30, 2026
The box office has 10 possible weekly shapes. In reality, 41% of weeks have no event movie and monopoly weeks are rising…
Ago 29, 2026
59 films have earned a green star for every $1B earned worldwide. Only five wear two. The full ranked roster.
Ago 29, 2026
68% of all event movies since 2006 owned the box office for exactly one week, then vanished. Meet the shooting stars.
Ago 28, 2026
A step-by-step guide to building a permanent 36-inch wood-fired brick pizza oven, from the reinforced base and firebrick dome to insulation, chimney,…
Ago 9, 2026
The Odyssey is the first film shot entirely on IMAX 15/70 film, and demand for the 70mm presentation has stunned IMAX. Only…
Jul 25, 2026
The four stars in our masthead aren’t decoration. Each is 1.618× the last and trimmed by a power of the golden ratio.…
Jul 16, 2026
From a pencil sketch in September 2024 to a theorem in the masthead: spec sheets, whiteboard pentagrams, 5 a.m. research, a star…
Jul 16, 2026
NYC reached an $875,000 settlement with delivery app HungryPanda for charging restaurants illegal fees above the city’s caps — the first time…
Ago 21, 2026
America’s Secret Society: Inside the Hidden World of Competitive Softball To an outsider walking in cold, competitive amateur softball looks simple enough:…
Ago 7, 2026
New York’s trip-by-trip records show Uber and Lyft’s cut tripled since 2019 to ~23–24%. But the “50–80% take” claim? True on about…
Jul 25, 2026
Since Nov. 10, 2025, New York requires apps to state “this price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” We…
Jul 25, 2026
A city report found the two apps buried the tip prompt — and tips cratered to $0.76 a delivery while rivals held…
Jul 25, 2026
The FTC opened a nationwide rulemaking on deceptive food- and grocery-delivery fees. USA Times spent months pricing the same food on the…
Jul 25, 2026
Read in: English · Español · Русский · 中文 · Português Here is the strangest statistic in the movie business right now:…
Jul 17, 2026
1,089 of IMAX's commercial locations were still running 2008-era xenon digital projection as of the end of 2025 — the largest single…
Ago 9, 2026
The FTC voted 3-1 to stop defending its own nationwide non-compete ban in court — and the same Federal Register notice formally…
Ago 9, 2026
June JOLTS data shows 7.4 million job openings nationally, essentially flat — but federal government postings rose 39,000 even as federal hires…
Ago 9, 2026
IMAX installed 38 systems in Q2 2026, its best second quarter in a decade, and revenue rose 12%. Its backlog still grew…
Ago 8, 2026
NATO's national blended average movie ticket runs about $10.75. IMAX tickets average roughly $17.80, and routinely exceed $22 in New York and…
Ago 8, 2026
U.S. population growth was cut roughly in half in a single year, per new Census data — not because of births or…
Ago 8, 2026
USA Times reviewed screenshots from a July 2026 Claude conversation showing a safety flag resurfacing after the assistant explicitly said it was…
Jul 26, 2026
Testing Claude's Cowork environment against OpenAI's Codex on one specific, testable question — where does an API credential live between sessions –…
Jul 25, 2026
You will never fit a true-IMAX screen in an apartment. But a good projector gets you closer to the cinema than any…
Jul 17, 2026
A delivery pizza usually costs more than the counter price once the fees stack up. Here are the home ovens that close…
Jul 17, 2026
USA Times is launching a free, annual Street Fighter 6 tournament at its Dominican Republic headquarters, starting July 2, 2028 and returning…
Jul 16, 2026
