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## TIER 2 STORIES (Brief RSS Summaries - mention if relevant):
- Chi Osse drops bid to challenge Jeffries after opposition from Mamdani New York City Council member Chi Osse has dropped a bid to challenge House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in a primary after New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani expressed his opposition...
- New York Times sues AI startup for illegal copying of millions of articles <p>Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/new-york-times">New York Time...
- NYC Mayor Adams Blocks City Funds from Anti-Israel BDS Movement Amid Mamdani Clash <p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed two executive orders on Wednesday blocking city funds from going to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. </p> <p>The post <a href...
- Zohran Mamdani Plans to End NYC Sweeps of Homeless Encampments <p>New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is not planning to continue clearing out homeless encampments in his city when he takes office.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...
- Alabama Wants to Lower the Bar for Executing Disabled Peopleif SCOTUS Lets It On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death penalty case that will decide whether intellectual disability can be ruled out on the basis of IQ tests alone. Long b...
- Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers <p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/meta-poaches-apple-ai-engineer-executive" target="_blank">Meta</a> on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ...
- Transformative AI is coming, and so are the risks <p>The holy grail of technology artificial general intelligence (<a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/chatgpt-gary-marcus-large-language-models-agi" target="_blank">AGI</a>) that can match or out...
- New Yorks wealthy warn of a tax exodus after Mamdanis win but the data says otherwise Wealthy New Yorkers have threatened to leave the city. They aren't going anywhere....
- Readers sound off on the Spider-Man balloon, Mamdani on foreign affairs and Old Ironsides Commack, L.I.: When my brother and I were kids, my mother would walk us to Central Park West and 77th St., to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as it began its trek downtown. We lived just a fe...
- Netanyahu Stares Down Mamdani Over Threats of Arrest The premier of the Jewish state declares, notwithstanding the threats from the mayor-elect, Yes, Ill come to New York....
- iHeartMedia, Implementing a Guaranteed Human Policy, Hears Americas Call To Silence AI Voices The company, whose broadcasts reach nine out of 10 Americans every month, becomes the first in the industry to limit the use of artificial intelligence....
- Chicago murals: New South Loop pickleball club mural features pickles and pickles playing pickleball <img alt="An assortment of murals painted by eight artists appears on the south-facing wall of ChiPickle pickleball club at 1900 S. Wabash Ave. in the South Loop." src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/d...
- Durbin vuelve a presentar la DREAM Act con la esperanza de que mas jovenes inmigrantes tengan la ciudadania <img alt="El senador estadounidense Dick Durbin, quien no busca la reeleccion, espera garantizar un camino legal a la ciudadania para los inmigrantes traidos a Estados Unidos cuando eran ninos." src="...
- Entraran en vigor nuevos descuentos para residentes de bajos ingresos mientras suben las facturas de la luz <img alt="Un nuevo programa de descuento de tarifas para clientes de ComEd de ingresos bajos entrara en vigor en enero." src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0a58d92/2147483647/strip/true/...
- Advierte Illinois a agentes de inmigracion y agencias de alquiler de autos que no se pueden alterar placas <img alt="Un vehiculo manejado por oficiales del DHS como parte de una gran operacion de cumplimiento de inmigracion federal tenia los numeros de su placa trasera de Illinois cubiertos con tinta negra...
- Inmigrantes tienen niveles mas altos de ataques de panico y ansiedad, y poca ayuda <img alt="Cristel Paiz lidera un ejercicio de yoga guiado en Cristel Yoga, en el suburbio de Berwyn. La mayoria de sus clientes son inmigrantes o tienen familiares inmigrantes. Lo mas importante es ma...
- Bannon, Epstein friendship inexcusably stays under the radar <img alt="Steve Bannon in February when he plead guilty to a fraud charge related to the "We Build the Wall" scheme, , at the state court in New York. " src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/di...
- Is it time to consider a global treaty to protect against AIs destructive uses? Letter to the Editor Given the negative side of artificial intelligence in potentially rendering work optional, is it time to consider an AI treaty focused on its constructive uses -- much like what happened in the world ...
- Alabama flips blue-chip 2026 offensive tackle from SEC rival Alabama football signed one of the top recruiting in Mississippi....
- Good Morning, News: City Afraid of 'Big PR Problem' Over Unspent Funds, Attorney Caught Filing Fake Case Law in AI Briefs, Trump/Hegseth Doing More War Crimes (Spotify CEO Votes With His Dollar) by Jeremiah Hayden <p><em>If you appreciate the </em>Mercury<em>'s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, <a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/contribute">consider making a small mon...