“I think Elise Stefanik typifies the exact kind of politics that has created so much despair across the city, across the state and across the country,” Mamdani says on her launch.
Federal prosecutors have launched a corruption probe into Washington, DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, focusing on a staff-included trip to Qatar that was funded by the country, reports the New York Times
The civil war at the Heritage Foundation is far more consequential than most people realize. The divide seems irreconcilable and it could splinter the American right irreversibly
The White House made a video of the arrest of Sean Dunn, a 37-year-old former Department of Justice employee who gained notoriety online as the “sandwich guy” for tossing a Subway salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C., in August. Dunn today was acquitted of misdemeanor simple assault by a jury in the District of Columbia.
The UK has arrested a Hamas operative wanted under a German warrant on suspicion of stockpiling weapons and plotting attacks against Jews and Israelis in Germany. His Berlin contact was among three Hamas members arrested in Germany ahead of Yom Kippur with Mossad assistance.
Criminals impersonating U.S. immigration officers have committed robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in multiple states, the FBI warned, urging agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and allow verification calls.
Federal prosecutors are set to issue grand jury subpoenas as part of an investigation into Obama-era intelligence officials who authored an assessment concluding that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to aid Donald Trump, Reuters reports
A man charged with throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C. in August has been found not guilty of misdemeanor assault.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran may soon face evacuation amid a worsening water crisis, saying the government will begin water rationing in the coming days. The capital has not received any rainfall since September, and dam reserves have fallen to just 5% of capacity.
Austria’s intelligence agency said it discovered a Hamas-linked weapons cache in Vienna that was allegedly meant for attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets in Europe, according to the Associated Press.
The Washington Post reports: The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s nonpartisan fiscal agency, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, potentially exposing key financial research used to shape legislation.
The New York Post reports that the UPS cargo jet that crashed and exploded in Louisville, Kentucky, had been grounded for more than a month before the accident for major fuel tank repairs.
A leaked internal memo from the New York City DSA Anti-War Working Group outlines the group’s “demands” for the incoming Mamdani administration, most of which are explicitly anti-Israel.
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The FAA is expected to announce nationwide flight reductions impacting major U.S. hubs, including Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, Miami International, and the three New York-area airports.
The FAA has ordered airlines to begin reducing flights from these 40 airports as soon as tomorrow, with carriers set to cut 4% of daily flights initially and scale up to 10% per day by early next week, ABC reports