Michael R. Bloomberg put $1.5 million into Fix the City, a super PAC backing Andrew M. Cuomo’s mayoral bid, and urged New Yorkers to vote for the former governor. The group has run anti-Mamdani ads and a get-out-the-vote push. It is Bloomberg’s first move since spending more than $8 million...
The Supreme Court asked the Trump administration and Illinois officials for more information as it weighs whether the president can deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in the Chicago area. The justices set a Nov. 17 deadline and requested briefs on what “regular forces” means under federal law. The case...
The Senate voted 50–46 to approve a resolution blocking President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, with Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul joining Democrats. The largely symbolic move, coming a day after a similar rebuke on Brazil, would end the national emergency underpinning tariffs on some Canadian...
Exit polls in the Netherlands put center-left Democrats 66 on top with a projected 27 seats, edging Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom at 25 and marking a 12-seat setback for his party. With no majority, months of coalition talks loom; D66 leader Rob Jetten seemed a likely contender for prime...
An appeals court temporarily halted a judge's order that had required U.S. Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino to report daily on immigration enforcement in Chicago tied to the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz." The Justice Department appealed U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis's directive, which set a 6 p.m....
Several companies tied to the White House’s new 90,000-square-foot, privately financed ballroom are tamping down their online presence amid backlash over the East Wing’s demolition. EAI Rolloff’s site shows only a Routine Maintenance notice; an EAI truck was seen hauling discarded rebar, and the firm offered no comment. Demolition contractor...
The Pentagon plans to pull up to 800 troops from Eastern Europe, prompting unusually sharp criticism from the Republican chairs of Congress’s armed services panels. Sens. Roger Wicker and Rep. Mike Rogers warned the move sends the wrong signal to Russia and conflicts with President Trump’s strategy to pressure Vladimir...
Nearly a month into a government shutdown, President Donald Trump has kept a full public schedule—overseas trips, fundraisers, even burger lunches at the White House—while far fewer Executive Office staff are furloughed than during 2018–19. With some 750,000 federal workers sidelined or unpaid and SNAP funding lapsing after Friday, the...
Two federal prosecutors in Washington, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were placed on leave hours after filing a memo calling the Jan. 6 attack a 'mob of rioters' and seeking 27 months for Taylor Taranto, a person familiar said. Prosecutors wrote Taranto was pardoned by Trump for Jan. 6 charges...
Public Enemy released the video for The Hits Just Keep On Comin’, the first visual from June’s Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025, directed by Rhiannon Rae Ellis. It opens with 1960 footage of Ruby Bridges; actress Safara-Cree Stiggers, as a young Bridges, leads into a room of televisions...
