Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as New York City’s new mayor on Jan. 1, alongside a party spanning seven blocks that will accommodate 40,000 spectators, his transition team said.
“This inauguration is a celebration of the movement we built, the mandate we won and the city we are prepared to lead,” Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?
A stage production of “High School Musical” in Sydney in 2008. Theater kids became an indelible part of the culture when “High School Musical,” “Glee” and “Smash” hit the airwaves.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans in rural and urban areas alike could see their votes rejected if the court decides that ballots must arrive by Election Day.
A rendering of the orbit followed by the Ursids meteor shower. The white line shows the shower’s path, and the bright blue line in the middle represents the Earth’s orbit.
An upstate New York district, where most students are Native American, placed its superintendent on leave after images of a wooden box in a classroom spread on social media.
A former school board member in upstate New York took a photo of this box in an elementary school classroom. She accused officials of building a “timeout box” for students who have disabilities, though it remains in dispute whether children were ever placed inside.
Politics and border hassles have chased away foreign visitors, costing businesses billions. Some fear next year’s World Cup won’t be enough to bring tourists back.
In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the modern era.
In his first year back in office, Mr. Trump has unabashedly adopted the trappings of royalty just as he has asserted power to transform American government and society to his liking.
Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.
For two decades, Luis Martinez has fought wildfires for the U.S. government. Now he’s facing down cancer, debt and the threat of separation from his 11-year-old.
For three weeks, defense lawyers argued that searches of Luigi Mangione’s bag were unconstitutional. But state prosecutors have other evidence — and a federal prosecution looms.
Police officers in Altoona, Pa., took ammunition, a homemade silencer, a notebook, handwritten notes and a 3-D printed gun from Luigi Mangione’s backpack.
Intelligence authorities in the Philippines say the father and son apparently slipped out of Davao City during their monthlong stay, but details remain sketchy.
Armed guards, bollards and secretive precautions became part of life amid antisemitic attacks and blurred lines between anger at Israel and hatred of Jews.
Rebecca Di Veroli with her daughter, Chloe, preparing the family’s menorah at home in North Bondi on Sunday.
The attacker killed at last week’s Hanukkah celebration in Australia came from a Muslim area whose residents have long gone abroad to seek better lives.
The hourslong outage affected nearly a third of the city and forced the closure of transit stations. Service was restored for most customers late Saturday.
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