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Mamdani made history last week as the first Muslim American to win a mayoral primary race in New York City
NYC mayoral frontrunner Mamdani: 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
NEW YORK CITY — Zohran Mamdani, who is the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor after a stunning victory last week, has said no one should have billions of dollars.In an interview with NBC, Mamdani also stood by his proposal to tax "richer and whiter" neighborhoods, arguing the city's property tax system is unfair.The 33-year-old defended his democratic socialism, rejecting an accusation from US President Donald Trump that he is a communist.If elected in November, he would be the first Muslim and Indian American to lead the nation's largest city.Mamdani ran an energetic campaign focused on affordability, promising free buses, universal childcare, a $30 minimum hourly wage, a rent freeze and city-run supermarkets — all paid for with higher taxes on the top 1%...
June 30, 2025

NYC mayoral frontrunner Mamdani: 'I don't think we should have billionaires'

Authorities are implementing emergency plans as the extreme weather phenomenon is expected to last several more days.
Nearly 12 million estimated to lose health coverage under Trump budget bill
WASHINGTON — A sprawling budget bill in the US Senate could cut health insurance coverage for nearly 12 million Americans and add $3.3tn (£2.4tn) in debt, according to new estimates.The assessment from the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan federal agency, could complicate Republican efforts to pass President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the coming days.The spending plan narrowly cleared a preliminary vote in the Senate late on Saturday after party leaders scrambled to arm-twist hesitant members of their rank and file.One defector, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, announced he would not seek reelection after voting against the president's signature legislation.Democratic lawmakers have led criticism of the bill. The CBO numbers calculate $1tn in...
June 30, 2025

Nearly 12 million estimated to lose health coverage under Trump budget bill

Republicans are scrambling to pass the Big Beautiful Bill through the senate ahead of a self-imposed 4 July deadline
Republican Senator Thom Tillis to leave Congress after clash with Trump
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator from North Carolina has said he will not run for reelection next year, a day after he opposed a sprawling budget bill that is key to President Donald Trump's agenda.Thom Tillis, 64, announced he would leave Congress because he said independent thinkers in Washington had become "an endangered species".Trump criticized Tillis on Saturday for not backing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and threatened to support other candidates.The president has also denounced other fellow Republican lawmakers who oppose his bill, including Senator Rand Paul and congressman Thomas Massie, both of Kentucky.A final Senate vote on passage of the spending plan is expected in the coming days. It narrowly cleared the House of Representatives last month.Tillis has...
June 30, 2025

Republican Senator Thom Tillis to leave Congress after clash with Trump

Japan is the only country in the world to have been hit by a nuclear attack
Outrage as Trump compares Iran strikes to Japan atomic bombing
SINGAPORE — Japan has condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II."That hit ended the war," Trump told reporters on Wednesday. "I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing."About 140,000 people died when the US dropped atomic bombs on the two southern Japanese cities in August 1945. Survivors live with psychological trauma and heightened cancer risk to this day.If Trump's comment "justifies the dropping of the atomic bomb, it is extremely regrettable for us as a city that was bombed," said Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki.Trump's comments are "unacceptable",...
June 27, 2025

Outrage as Trump compares Iran strikes to Japan atomic bombing

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is pictured in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2025
US halts funding to global group that provides vaccines to low-income countries
WASHINGTON — The United States will halt funding for a global organisation that provides vaccines to millions of children in lower-income countries, which comes after the most senior US health official said the group has “ignored the science” on safety issues.US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine sceptic and activist, said the country will not deliver on a $1.58 billion (€1.39 billion) pledge made by the previous Biden administration until GAVI – which procures and distributes jabs around the world – changes its approach to vaccine safety research and assessment.“There is much that I admire about GAVI,” Kennedy said in video remarks. “Unfortunately, in its zeal to promote universal vaccination, it has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety”.He...
June 26, 2025

US halts funding to global group that provides vaccines to low-income countries

Adolfo Macías Villamar was taken to a maximum-security jail
Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'
QUITO — Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country's most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar.Macías, also known by the alias "Fito", is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang which is blamed for Ecuador's transformation from a tourist haven to a country with one of the highest murder rates in the region.He is also suspected of having ordered the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023.Police tracked him down to what they described as an underground bunker below a luxury home in the city of Manta.A police spokesman said no shots were fired in the 10-hour joint operation by police and the military.A large number of officers first monitored and surrounded the three-storey home in the Monterrey neighborhood of...
June 26, 2025

Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'

Donald Trump
CIA director says Iran's nuclear sites 'severely damaged'
WASHINGTON — The head of the CIA has said US strikes "severely damaged" Iran's nuclear facilities and set them back years, diverging from a leaked intelligence report that angered President Donald Trump by downplaying the raid's impact.John Ratcliffe, the US spy agency's director, said key sites had been destroyed, though he stopped short of declaring that Iran's nuclear programme had been eliminated outright.It comes a day after a leaked preliminary assessment from a Pentagon intelligence agency suggested core components of Iran's nuclear programme remained intact after the US bombings.Trump again maintained the raid had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities.The Republican president took to social media on Wednesday to post that the...
June 26, 2025

CIA director says Iran's nuclear sites 'severely damaged'

Zohran Mamdani reaches out his hand
Left-wing Democrat stuns former governor in NY mayor primary
NEW YORK CITY — Andrew Cuomo has conceded in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in a stunning political upset.Cuomo, the state's former governor, was attempting to pull off a political comeback after resigning from office in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal.In a speech to supporters, Cuomo said Mamdani - a 33-year-old democratic socialist - had "won" the primary race and that "we are going to take a look and make some decisions"."Tonight is his night," Cuomo, 67, said. If elected, Mamdani would be the first Muslim and Indian American to lead the nation's largest city.The primary in staunchly liberal New York is likely to determine who becomes mayor in November's election.The contest was being...
June 25, 2025

Left-wing Democrat stuns former governor in NY mayor primary

The US Supreme Court
US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland.By 6-3, the justices reversed a lower court order requiring the government to give migrants a "meaningful opportunity" to tell officials what risks they might face being deported to a third country.The court's three liberal justices dissented from the majority ruling, saying it was "rewarding lawlessness".The case involves eight migrants from Myanmar, South Sudan, Cuba, Mexico, Laos and Vietnam, who were deported in May on a plane said to be heading for South Sudan. The Trump administration said they were "the worst of the worst".Boston-based US District Judge Brian Murphy ruled...
June 24, 2025

US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries

Coca crops in Colombia's Micay Canyon
Dozens of soldiers seized in Colombian mountains
BOGOTA — Colombia's military says 57 soldiers have been kidnapped by civilians in the country's south-western Micay Canyon area.It says 31 soldiers were seized on Saturday while the rest were abducted on Sunday by a group of more than 200 people.The military says the civilians are acting under pressure from dissidents of the Farc rebel group which agreed a peace deal with the government in 2016.The mountainous region is a key zone for cocaine production and remains one of the most tense in the country's ongoing conflict with rebel groups.In a video statement on social media, Brig Gen Federico Alberto Mejia said four non-commissioned officers and 53 soldiers had been seized over the weekend."This is called kidnapping," he said.Reports in local media suggest that the...
June 23, 2025

Dozens of soldiers seized in Colombian mountains

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