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How to eat like a New Yorker in New York City

With NYC Restaurant Week in full swing, these are the city's best places to eat.

Market Watch: The Kamala effect and what investors should expect from the next US President

Political drama is shaking up the US investment outlook.

World’s biggest lithium producer urges state help to compete with China

Financial Times: US producer cuts expansion plans in struggle over key mineral for EVs.

Kamala Harris’s campaign has reset the electoral map

Democrats’ poll numbers - and their chances of holding the White House - have rebounded.

Trump congratulates Putin over prisoner swap deal

Released prisoners include Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

What’s rattling Trump: The size of Harris’ crowds

New York Times: Harris’s first big rally appears to have gotten under Trump's skin.

Kamala Harris’ husband admits affair in previous marriage

Second gentleman's past affair surfaces as Harris poised to select running mate.

Judge sets pretrial date for Trump's 2020 election case

Criminal case accuses Trump of trying to illegally overturn result of the 2020 election.

California wildfire now fourth-largest in state history

Blazes from the Park Fire have destroyed an area larger than the city of Los Angeles.

Hillbilly Elegy sales surge after JD Vance joins Trump campaign

New York Times: Memoir has sold more than 750,000 copies in all formats since mid-July.

US says Edmundo Gonzalez won the Venezuela election

The US has rejected Nicolas Maduro’s victory claim, recognising his opponent as President.

Who was freed in the prisoner swap between Russia and the West?

New York Times: A list of the 24 prisoners who were exchanged and their backgrounds.

'Worst smell in my entire life': The city plagued by horrible stench

It smells so bad, people aren't leaving their homes.

AI threatens jobs, say striking voice and video game actors

Many in Hollywood are advocating for a law that can protect them from AI risks.

Cold War-style swap: Who is the Russian assassin freed in prisoner exchange?

New York Times: He'd been sentenced for a brazen assassination in Berlin. Now he's free.

NZDF joins US military exercises deploying AI for ‘kill chains’

The Pentagon has been pushing for allies to get on board to counter China.

Warnings of ‘catastrophic conflict’ by Australian Aukus sceptic

NZ advised to co-operate militarily with Australia but not under Aukus.

Fed says first cut to US interest rates could come in September

Financial Times: Comments by chair Powell boost expectations of pre-election move.