In the final days of New York City's mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani defended a story about an aunt afraid to wear a hijab after 9/11, after Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, mocked it and accounts on X flagged his father's sister's LinkedIn profile. Mamdani said he meant...
At Yokosuka Naval Base, President Donald Trump turned a carrier hangar into a rally, addressing about 6,000 U.S. service members and more than 200 from Japan under a “Peace Through Strength” banner. Over 53 minutes aboard the USS George Washington, he tied his trade agenda to avoiding wars, said Japan’s...
Venlo’s election mood is taut: immigration and housing dominate talk as Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom campaigns on a halt to asylum and border troops. Wilders, whose party toppled the government in June, leads polls for votes but faces isolation in coalition talks and could lose seats. In the aging...
Speaking aboard the USS George Washington off Japan, President Donald Trump criticized the Navy’s use of magnets on new carriers, claiming water can disable them, and said he would sign an executive order to restore steam catapults and hydraulic elevators. He asked troops and a “top-ranking general” to weigh in,...
With the Ninth Circuit weighing an en banc rehearing on whether President Donald Trump can federalize the Oregon National Guard, the Justice Department acknowledged it overstated federal manpower in Portland. In a letter, attorney Andrew M. Bernie said an affidavit citing 115 Federal Protective Service officers was wrong; the actual...
More than 223,000 New Yorkers voted in the first three days of early voting, putting turnout on pace for the highest since 1993 and skewing older than the primary. A Suffolk University poll shows Andrew M. Cuomo narrowing Zohran Mamdani’s lead but still trailing by 10 points, while Curtis Sliwa...
With a week to go, Democratic gubernatorial candidates Mikie Sherrill (New Jersey) and Abigail Spanberger (Virginia) will make a rare joint appearance Wednesday at a D.N.C.-organized Zoom rally, joined by Gov. Andy Beshear, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and D.N.C. chairman Ken Martin. The event, aimed at energizing volunteers, will stream on...
Speaking to thousands of U.S. servicemembers aboard the U.S.S. George Washington in Japan, President Trump said he is prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into American cities to enforce crackdowns on crime and immigration. He defended recent U.S. strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats — actions that have killed...
Under orders from President Donald Trump, the refurbished statue of Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington has been reinstalled after protesters toppled and burned it in 2020. The National Park Service cited historic-preservation duties and recent executive orders in restoring pre-existing statues. District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton condemned...
Redding and other rural Northern California communities are bracing for Proposition 50, a ballot measure that would redraw U.S. House maps and could merge conservative Shasta, Siskiyou and Modoc counties with liberal Marin County. Opponents call it gerrymandering that would drown out rural voices; Gov. Gavin Newsom frames it as...
