Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old Bank of America vice president, was killed in a random and unprovoked stabbing in Times Square on Monday, according to the NYPD. Police said attacker Pamela Cisneros stabbed a 68-year-old man seconds earlier, then later advanced on officers with two knives before being shot dead.

British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen is returning as his iconic character from the 1990s and 2000s, Ali G, in a new mockumentary. However, despite the character’s immense popularity in past decades, Cohen is now constantly being attacked for being racist, doing blackface, and supporting Israel while promoting his new film on social media.

Listening to Péter Magyar at Bled, much of his diagnosis of the European Union could easily have come from Viktor Orbán. On EU bureaucracy, lack of leadership, competitiveness, migration, cohesion funds, Central European cooperation and strongman posturing towards EU institutions, the two align significantly. The sharp break is in strategy: Magyar seeks cooperation within a system Orbán increasingly sought to overturn.

Contemporary German-language literature will take centre stage at the 31st Budapest Book Festival, with Germany, Austria and Switzerland serving as joint guests of honour. The four-day event will feature internationally acclaimed authors, emerging writers and children’s and young adult literature from 1–4 October.

According to anonymous sources inside the Trump administration who spoke to the New York Post, the IRS and the Treasury are getting ready to act on a 2025 directive issued by President Trump and try to remove the 501(c) tax-exempt statuses of left-wing nonprofits that allegedly contribute to political violence.

US PlayStation customers who purchased certain digital games between 2019 and 2023 could be eligible for a share of a proposed 7.85 million dollar settlement with Sony. The settlement has received preliminary court approval, with a final approval hearing scheduled for 15 October.