In the final days of the mayor’s race, Mr. Cuomo, a lifelong Democrat running as an independent, is courting Republican and disaffected Democratic voters with fear-based appeals and attacks on Mr. Mamdani’s ideology and identity. He has highlighted Mr. Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian positions to woo Jewish voters, questioned his Muslim bona...
On Minneapolis’ Lake Street, Somali-owned cafes and shops show what refugees built, even as the Trump administration capped admissions at 7,500—down from 125,000—and prioritized Afrikaners from South Africa. Community members like Nasra Hassan pointed to a corridor revived by arrivals from Somalia, Mexico, Myanmar, the Congo and Ukraine. Advocates called...
At Bahrain’s Manama Dialogue, U.S. national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said Washington has ended its approach of regime change or nation building under President Donald Trump, stressing a pivot to economic prosperity and regional stability. She cited a ceasefire halting the Israel Hamas war in Gaza and an end to...
At an APEC summit in Gyeongju, Xi Jinping took center stage, urging creation of a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization to set rules and treat AI as a public good, with Shanghai floated as a base. With Donald Trump absent after talks that produced a one year deal to partially...
An intensifying government shutdown is approaching five weeks, with food stamp benefits at risk, airports slowed by staffing shortages, and hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid. President Trump left Washington for Florida events and touted a renovated White House bathroom, while blaming Democrats and calling to eliminate the filibuster,...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election with nearly 98 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said, amid days of violent protests and the country’s gravest political crisis in decades. Election monitors and top European Parliament members said the polls were neither free nor...
Voters head to the polls next week in California, Virginia and New Jersey, among other states. NPR’s Mara Liasson and Domenico Montanaro discuss what they’re watching and what voters’ choices might say about the political moment on Consider This. The episode was produced by Kai McNamee and Connor Donevan, edited...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan won Tanzania’s disputed election with more than 97% of the vote, according to official results announced early Saturday, a rare regional landslide that drew immediate alarm. Protests over the Oct. 29 vote spread nationwide, prompting a military-backed crackdown, intermittent internet outages, and the postponement of university...
On Friday, the Trump administration halted walk-in access to the West Wing’s Upper Press, requiring appointments and citing security over “sensitive material.” Reporters may still enter the smaller Lower Press. The White House Correspondents’ Association condemned the change as a blow to transparency and accountability. Communications director Steven Cheung said...
Leaning into Halloween, Vice President JD Vance donned a wig and parodied the “babyface Vance” meme in a TikTok, saying, “Happy Halloween… say thank you,” over The Twilight Zone theme. Online reactions followed: the Democrats’ X account mocked him, he rejected a costume prompt from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna with...
