Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday hurled blistering words at New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling Hamas the mayor’s “buddies.” In a fiery speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu railed against Mamdani for his scrutiny of Israel, noting that the socialist mayor attempted to have him arrested while attending the world leaders’ gathering […]
Actor Elliot Page, actress Susan Sarandon, and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning were among the demonstrators blocking a road outside the United Nations in New York on Thursday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to address the General Assembly. Hundreds of protesters gathered in Midtown Manhattan to demonstrate against Netanyahu and Israel’s […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said President Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st state prompted him to prepare for a possible American invasion, though he acknowledged it was an unlikely outcome. In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, Carney offered a closer look at how he has navigated strained relations between […]
The Senate defeated the latest bipartisan effort Thursday to end the war in Iran with a war powers resolution, despite a growing number of Republicans in competitive elections breaking with President Donald Trump with calls to end the nearly seven-month-long conflict. Most of those vulnerable incumbents stuck by the president to oppose what marked the […]
Darializa Avila Chevalier was detained during a protest in New York City on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is addressing the U.N. General Assembly. Avila Chevalier, a socialist who is all but certain to be a member of Congress next year, was detained alongside New York City Councilman Chi Osse and comedian […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) endorsed former Rep. Tom Perriello, who’s running in a district President Donald Trump won by 12 points in 2024. “If we want a Congress that actually fights for working people, we must take back the House in November,” Cortez wrote in her endorsement. “That is why I am endorsing Tom Perriello […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued prediction market company Polymarket, alleging the company is operating an illegal gambling operation in the state and offering unlicensed betting markets to New Yorkers. The lawsuit marks the latest legal challenge facing prediction market companies as states and federal regulators clash over whether event contracts constitute gambling subject […]
Revelations that OpenAI’s systems hacked into additional systems unprompted, coinciding with the convening of many of the world’s leaders, have put more pressure on the world community to figure out how to tackle the issue. The biggest revelation happened on Wednesday, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that OpenAI agents had hacked into Australian […]
Media outlets banned by President Donald Trump were allowed back on White House grounds Thursday after being denied access earlier in the day, despite a federal judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to reinstate their credentials. Reporters for MS Now, CNN, and Politico said they were allowed back into the White House property shortly after […]
The Trump administration will ask the Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court put into effect a ruling invalidating the government’s framework for rapid third-country deportations, Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday night dissolving a prior stay that had kept the […]
