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Philanthropist and billionaire heiress Liz Simons, who donated $250,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, a PAC supporting Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani , oversees a foundation that is reportedly behind the push to bring "woke math" to public schools. Critics told the New York Post that the math program was aimed at turning children into socialist revolutionaries. While a typical math problem challenges a child to answer a quantitative question, race-neutral math incorporates social issues into questions and doesn't focus on numbers alone. The outlet noted that while the approach has been embraced in states like California, others, including Florida, have rejected it. PRO-MAMDANI SUPER PAC TAKES HEFTY CHECK FROM ULTRA-WEALTHY DONOR DESPITE SAYING BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN'T EXIST The Heising-Simons Foundation, which Simons co-founded with her husband, Mark Heising, has given $1.7 million since 2023 to the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics (RJEM) Project at Chic...

Department of Justice officials have had several internal meetings about putting limitations on transgender people’s ability to purchase firearms, Fox News Digital has learned. The DOJ officials’ conversations are in an early stage and no concrete steps have been taken, according to conversations with multiple sources. But the discussions surrounding two hotly contested issues for Republicans — preserving Second Amendment rights and tightening policies related to transgender people — are happening. One source pointed to a "pattern" of shootings carried out by transgender people, including the recent tragedy at a Catholic Church in Minnesota. Robin Westman, who was named Robert through 2019, killed two children and injured more than a dozen others before dying by suicide. Westman’s firearms were purchased legally, according to the Associated Press . ATF CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL FIRED BY BONDI IN LATEST JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHAKEUP Another source said the DOJ's discussions a...

David Baszucki / Roblox Corporate : Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B+ over the past year   —  Unveiling first-of-its-kind AI, new powerful engine capabilities, creators earning 8.5% more, and our path to capturing 10% of all gaming content revenue

Minneapolis City Councilman Jeremiah Ellison says he will continue receiving his six-figure salary despite accepting a full-time fellowship at Harvard, he announced Wednesday. Ellison, the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, is now facing criticism from his fellow councilmembers, who note that he will not be able to attend meetings and fully carry out his role. Ellison currently receives a roughly $110,000 salary for his role on the council, and his fellowship at Harvard is a paid position. "I am extremely disappointed in this, and I hope that my colleagues don’t allow this to happen — something to happen to North Minneapolis that is not good for them just once again," council member LaTrisha Vetaw said during a press conference last month. "Without Council member Ellison sitting on those committees, we have zero North Minneapolis representation on those committees. That’s not acceptable to the only other North side council member up here," she adde...

Keith Laing / Bloomberg : The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers   —  The Trump administration is taking steps to make it easier for automakers to deploy-self driving cars by removing some requirements designed specifically …

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : Google Pixel 8 and newer models can now stream audio to multiple headphones at once with expanded Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast support   —  Expanded LE Audio and Auracast support mean you can broadcast music to multiple headphones at once. … Pixel phones will now be able to stream audio …

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Space Command’s headquarters would move from Colorado to Alabama — capping off a yearslong fight over where the command should be based.  While Space Command has been operating out of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Trump has historically pushed for the command’s headquarters to move to Huntsville, Alabama. However, former President Joe Biden announced in 2023 that the command would remain based in Colorado.  "The U.S. Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City," Trump told reporters Tuesday.  "This will result in more than 30,000 Alabama jobs," Trump said. "And probably much more than that, and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment … Most importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate the high frontier, as they call it."  RENAMED DEPARTMENT...

Hayden Field / The Verge : OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications   —  It was a big weekend for the ChatGPT-maker. … OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo …

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on Monday, following strong quarterly results from its cloud computing unit and reports of its new AI chip on Friday   —  Alibaba's Hong Kong listed shares surged more than 19% on Monday as the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing unit drove strong quarterly results …

President Donald Trump praised Washington, D.C ., Mayor Muriel Bowser for cooperating with his administration amid a deployment of National Guard troops to the city to help combat crime. "Wow! Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has become very popular because she worked with me and my great people in bringing crime down to virtually nothing in D.C.," Trump posted on his Truth Social Monday. "Her statements and actions were positive, instead of others like [Illinois Gov. J.B.] Pritzker, [Maryland Gov.] Wes Moore, [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, and the 5% approval-rated mayor of Chicago, who spend all of their time trying to justify violent crime instead of working with us to completely eliminate it, which we have done in Washington, D.C., now a crime-free zone," he added. DC MAYOR BOWSER REVERSES COURSE, ADMITS TRUMP'S FEDERAL CRIME CRACKDOWN IS WORKING Trump further claimed that Bowser’s approval rating has gone up. "In a short period of time, 25%, and the p...

Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder : Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks   —  Chinese tech giant Tencent has open sourced two specialized translation models, claiming they outperform established tools …

MANCHESTER, N.H . - Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont says if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't step down as Health and Human Services secretary in President Donald Trump's administration, Americans will need to speak out. "We've got to rally the American people. This is a huge issue," Sanders told Fox News Digital on Monday. Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said, "I'm not a scientist, I'm not a doctor, but I do talk to scientists, and I do talk to doctors, and the evidence is overwhelming. It's not contestable. Vaccines work. They save millions and millions of lives." WHY BERNIE SANDERS IS CALLING ON RFK JR. TO RESIGN And the progressive champion and 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential nomination runner-up warned that "if Kennedy and his friends are able to make people think that vaccines are not safe, it will be a real public health crisis for America." Sanders is a...

Emily Mullin / Wired : A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030   —  A new policy document outlines China's plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years …

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M   —  George Kurtz, cofounder and CEO of CrowdStrike  —  COURTESY OF CROWDSTRIKE  —  Cybersecurity is more than just software …

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regarding Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Comer sent the letter on Sunday, saying his committee is "reviewing the possible mismanagement" of the federal government’s investigation of Epstein and Maxwell, including Epstein’s death. The letter set a deadline of Sept. 15 for the Treasury to produce relevant SARs. "It is essential that Treasury produce to the Committee certain SARs to assist the Committee’s oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and specifically its handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell," the letter states. EPSTEIN ESTATE HIT WITH NEW HOUSE SUBPOENA FOR 'CLIENT LIST,' CALL LOGS Fox News Digital reached out to the Treasury Department for comment on the letter b...

Aditya Kalra / Reuters : Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games   —  Indian online gaming app Mobile Premier League (MPL) will sack about 60% of its local workforce as part of a major downsizing …