The FAA will pare back flights at busy airports as early as Friday if no shutdown deal emerges, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. About 10% of air traffic at 40 airports would be cut, with specifics still pending, as the agency meets airlines to coordinate a “prescriptive” and “surgical” plan....
California Republicans sued in federal court to block a new U.S. House map that voters approved under Proposition 50, a Newsom-backed plan meant to help Democrats flip up to five seats next year. Filed by the Dhillon Law Group in the Central District of California, the complaint alleges mapmakers illegally...
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani began assembling his administration, unveiling an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold, with co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, Lina Khan, Grace Bonilla and Melanie Hartzog. Pledging to be ready by 1 January, the 34-year-old democratic socialist said the team will deliver an ambitious agenda, including a...
Traders slashed odds that the Supreme Court will uphold President Donald Trump’s tariffs after justices signaled doubts about the administration’s sweeping trade powers. On Kalshi, contracts forecasting a pro-tariff ruling fell to about 30% from nearly 50% after a hearing where conservative and liberal justices questioned the broad authority claimed...
Dick Cheney, who died Monday at 84, is being reassessed in the Trump era as a hard-edged but traditional conservative—reviled for championing surveillance, renditions and brutal interrogations, and for insisting Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, yet remembered by rivals as serious, partisan but willing to engage. Once the...
Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral victory, carried live on Israeli media, ignited a storm in Israel and celebration among many Palestinians. The 34-year-old, set to become the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, has condemned Israel’s Gaza campaign as genocide and pledged to protect Jewish New Yorkers while rejecting...
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, 34, faces urgent tests even before his Jan. 1 swearing-in: fending off President Trump’s threats and funding warnings, advancing a $6 billion universal child care plan, and delivering a rent freeze for nearly one million stabilized apartments. He vows to defend sanctuary city policies...
Democrats notched surprise wins Tuesday, flipping two Georgia Public Service Commission seats with roughly 60 percent and posting blowouts in New Jersey and Virginia governors races. Zohran Mamdani won a majority in New York City’s mayoral election, and California voters approved a temporary redrawing of congressional districts to add Democrat-leaning...
Singapore's move to preserve Lee Kuan Yew's home as a national monument has reignited a bitter family feud. A day after the government said 38 Oxley Road is of national significance and should be protected, Lee's youngest son, Lee Hsien Yang, denounced the plan, saying it defies his father's explicit...
Small businesses are reeling as the Supreme Court weighs whether President Trump can use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs. Owners from Pennsylvania’s RainCaper to Ohio’s EarthQuaker Devices and California’s Cephalofair describe layoffs, surcharges and stalled plans amid whiplash tariff swings, with some rerouting shipments overseas. Lower courts have deemed...
