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New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed. The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s. The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71% increase from 2022's $1.57 billion, data showed. MAYORS WANT TO KEEP HANDING OUT FREE CASH AFTER FEDERAL FUNDS DRIED UP When coupled with payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the city paid out more than $7 billion in welfare to residents in 2024, according to a Fox News analysis of data from the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA). The rise in welfare payments comes as some of New York City's wealthiest contemplate a Big Apple exodus due to what many have described as a policy environment unfriendly to businesses and moneymakers. NYC MAYOR MAMDANI CALLS THREAT OF RICH PEOPLE LEAVING NYC OVER ...

House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., declined to answer repeated questions Friday about her husband's hit-and-run case before a staffer abruptly stepped-un to put an end to the exchange. "Ok, that's enough. That's enough!" the staffer raised her voice after Fox News Digital asked the lawmaker about the latest drama with her husband, Paul Pelosi. The brief exchange came nearly two weeks after California authorities recommended that Paul face a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge stemming from a July 3 crash in Yountville, California. FORMER US ATTORNEY CHARGED WITH FELONY HIT-AND-RUN AFTER HOUSTON CRASH, POLICE SAY Napa County Sheriff's Office investigators said the 86-year-old was driving a convertible when it collided with a legally parked Tesla, which was unoccupied. The impact caused substantial damage to both vehicles, and witnesses told deputies the car briefly stopped before leaving the area. However, Paul did not call the police. He was later loc...

Wall Street Journal : Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models   —  Elon Musk's company would sell military billions of dollars' worth of data-center capacity for running AI models

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022   —  Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries.  Starting today, Apple Music's Individual plan …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences   —  Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other.

Of the many political crusades the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., undertook, few were as front of mind for him than crippling Russia’s war machine in its conflict with Ukraine. Yet during the last year-and-a-half of President Donald Trump’s second term, momentum behind a bone-crushing sanctions package against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin would start and stop, with hopes rising and falling for its proponents every few months. Earlier this year, Graham had similarly gotten a green light from the White House for a different iteration of the package. SENATE DEMS DRAW RARE LINE AGAINST MUST-PASS PENTAGON BILL "It's never going back on the shelf because President Trump believes he needs it," Graham told Fox News Digital at the time. "I think he needs it." Hours before his death, he again got confirmation that the White House supported his and Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s, D-Conn., latest offering. "Senator Graham and I were told, very autho...