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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has given homeowners in New York City an additional month to apply to be exempt from his new pied-à-terre tax, which went into effect on July 1. Homeowners across the five boroughs who believe they should qualify for an exemption now have until Sept. 18 to apply for one, according to City Hall. The previous deadline was Aug. 21. The extended deadline, city officials said, applies to anyone who received notices from the Department of Finance (DOF) with the phrase "You may be subject to..." The pied-à-terre tax, passed by the New York State Legislature in May, imposes an annual surcharge on certain high-value New York City homes worth more than $5 million that are not the owner's primary residence. LIBERAL PODCASTER SAYS HE WAS 'DOXED' BY MAMDANI'S 'WANTED POSTER' OF PROPERTY OWNERS The city's finance department said the extension was necessary to give homeowners more time to prove that their home is in fact their primary resid...

Michigan House candidate and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Will Lawrence advocated for a national data center moratorium Saturday during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. "What I see is that there is an urgent need to have a federal moratorium on new AI data centers so that we can have a national conversation about if we're going to be generating this hyper intelligent AI, what's the best way to do it, and how do we ensure that it benefits everybody rather than just a few billionaires in Silicon Valley?" Lawrence said at a campaign event in South Lansing, Michigan. "I do support a federal moratorium because there may be a right way to build these data centers and generate super-intelligent AI, but what's happening now is the wrong way, because it's abandoning the basic principles of democracy and self-determination that are foundational to the American identity," he also said. BLANCHE URGED TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED FOREIGN I...

New York Times : Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them   —  Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.

Approximately one-third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as "democratic socialists," a shocking CNN poll revealed, as once-fringe groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are now gaining huge influence on the national scene. Polling data shared with Fox News Digital revealed that 34% of CNN poll respondents who lean Democrat said they think of themselves as democratic socialists. In total, 15% of all poll respondents said they identify as democratic socialists. Democratic-aligned respondents who identify as democratic socialists were primarily young White Americans, according to CNN. The poll found that 59% of democratic socialist-identifying respondents were younger than 45, while 57% were White. This comes as concern grows over the rising influence of socialism and the DSA on American politics . SOCIALISTS CHEER ‘SHOCKWAVE’ PRIMARY NIGHT AS DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES WIN, ADVANCE ACROSS THE MAP According to the poll, which was conducted by ...

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund   —  Index Ventures, an investor in cybersecurity firm Wiz and fintech Revolut, has raised $2 billion in new capital to back startups across multiple stages of development.

Thinking Machines Lab : Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling   —  Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face  —  Today, we are releasing Inkling-Small, an efficient open-weights model …

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul , R-Ky., will schedule a committee vote next week to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times today. The committee could vote to hold Fauci in contempt . But it doesn’t stop there. Contempt of Congress must go before the entire Senate. It takes a simple majority to hold someone in contempt. But such a resolution must clear one filibuster, requiring 60 yeas. WATCH: FAUCI ATTORNEY EJECTED FROM SENATE HEARING AFTER CHAOTIC EXCHANGE: 'YOU ARE NOT RECOGNIZED!' So, it’s doubtful Fauci is held in contempt. Even if the Senate broke the filibuster, the Senate must approve a separate resolution to make a criminal referral to Department of Justice. That would face at least one filibuster, again entailing 60 affirmative votes. It is more common for the House to hold someone in contempt compared to the Senate. The Senate last successfully held someone in contempt i...