Browsing: Zohran Mamdani

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said he’d rather see an economy with 1,000 millionaires than one billionaire, prompting critics to cite data on existing millionaire-to-billionaire ratios and income gains.

The City Council scrapped a plan to automatically enroll New Yorkers in city benefits after members warned it could expose immigrants’ data to federal scrutiny under the Trump administration’s expanded ‘public charge’ policy.

Eric Avrutov, 31, who has five prior arrests including a similar assault two days earlier, was charged with beating a 66-year-old rabbi in Kensington minutes after allegedly punching a stranger at a gas station.

The Columbus Citizens Foundation has invited Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Manhattan’s Columbus Day Parade, prompting backlash from Italian-American leaders who cite his past criticism of Christopher Columbus.

President Trump called it “terrible” and “inappropriate” after video showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani smiling during the reading of 9/11 victims’ names, though a witness disputed that they were laughing about the ceremony.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended Friday’s 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero despite a 110,000-signature petition urging him to stay away, drawing rebukes from victims’ families over his ties to controversial figures and his appointment of a former Guantánamo defense lawyer.

A video showing New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smiling at Friday’s 9/11 Memorial ceremony sparked backlash, though a Giuliani security aide standing nearby says the clip was taken out of context.

CNN host Abby Phillip and National Review’s Noah Rothman sparred on-air over whether Sen. Ted Cruz’s use of the word “Islamism” amounted to an attack on Islam as a religion, with Rothman repeatedly insisting the two terms are not interchangeable.

David Morales, a 27-year-old democratic socialist state representative, defeated incumbent Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Wednesday’s Democratic primary, prompting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to hail the result as a sign of where the Democratic Party is headed.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Labor Day post crediting ‘democratic socialists’ with organizing the first 1882 Labor Day parade drew criticism, since the Democratic Socialists of America wasn’t formally established until 1982.