Zohran Mamdani, the leading contender in the Nov. 4 New York election, and Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, are liberal and Muslim, but they’re navigating varied politics, communities and cities.
New York City has often set the political, cultural and financial course of the country. Tuesday’s mayoral election — and a New Yorker watching from Washington — could scramble it all.
A collision of local and national forces like deportation campaigns and economic angst may force New York City to confront some of the paradoxes that are core to its identity.
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump’s tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn’t it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains.
President Trump’s fund-raisers have been circulating a pledge form, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, seeking contributions for the ballroom, which gives donors the option of withholding their identities from public disclosure.
Speaker John A. Boehner on the 15th day of the 2013 government shutdown. He later lampooned Senator Ted Cruz, who had embraced shutting down the government over Obamacare, as “Lucifer in the flesh.”
Six proposals will appear on the back of ballots at the polls in New York City on Election Day. Emma Fitzsimmons, The New York Times’s City Hall bureau chief, explains the affordable housing proposals.
New regulations were supposed to ensure that homeowners in fire zones would have coverage available. But companies can still avoid serving many high-risk areas, a Times investigation found.
Judges on Friday ordered the federal government to continue providing food assistance during the shutdown. But benefits will still most likely be interrupted.
A food bank in Miami this week. About 42 million people are at risk of losing their aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania was declared the winner of an election that has set off violent protests and reports of electoral irregularities.
The Canadian prime minister also said that he had asked the province of Ontario not to air the ad that later prompted the president to end trade talks.
President Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, right, attended a dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday.
An early participant in the eccentric collection of artists known as Fluxus, she was perhaps best known for pieces centered on a humble tuna sandwich and a giant salad.
The artist Alison Knowles in front of some of her work at her Manhattan studio in 2022. She was best known for a style of interactive art that by design is challenging to display and preserve in a museum.
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