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Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor, said he won’t be marching in this year’s Israel Day Parade, during a news conference Thursday.

“I said on the campaign trail that I wouldn’t be attending, and I’ve made my views on the Israeli government clear,” Mamdani said, adding that ample security measures will be in place. He said:

As the mayor of our city, I take seriously the responsibility to protect the safety and well-being of every New Yorker at every event, regardless of my attendance.

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Vice president says Donald Trump is ‘improving military quality of life’ and says America’s ‘adversaries are studying this country every day’

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In one of the opinions shared by the Supreme Court Thursday morning, the Court has ruled in favor of a Black man who claims that there was racial bias in the make up of the jury that convicted him.

In Pitchford v Cain, five of the Court’s justices sided with Terry Pitchford, a man sentenced to death for his part in killing a grocery story owner in Mississippi, over 20 years ago, reported AP.

Trump v Cook: Donald Trump’s case for firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, as he continues to exert greater control over the US central bank.

Trump v Slaughter: A case which examines the legality of Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member, Rebecca Slaughter.

Trump v Barbara: In which the court will decide if the administration’s attempts to restrict birthright citizenship are unconstitutional.

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Don Beyer, representative from Virginia, said proposed project outside Arlington National Cemetery would ‘desecrate this hallowed space to build a monument to Donald Trump’s ego’

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President Trump is set to hold the 12th cabinet meeting of his second term at 11am EST on Wednesday.

Three Democratic state attorneys general said their deputies were turned away from a roundtable hosted by JD Vance on Tuesday, sowing confusion about what the White House has billed as a bipartisan crackdown on fraud.

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President says ‘you don’t want to do it in Trump crowds’ as his speech to supporters in Rockland county, New York, disrupted twice by protesters

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“There’s broad recognition there are going to be eventually less US troops in Europe than historically,” Rubio says

Rubio said he didn’t set the timeline for reducing the number of US troops in Europe, but “it has been an ongoing process that started from the first day of this administration.”

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Khanna says ‘blank check to Israel and Netanyahu when they committed genocide’ one of the reasons his party lost; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls omission ‘pretty unbelievable’

• Democrats belatedly publish 2024 election autopsy report: ‘It won’t meet your standards’

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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats spoke held a news conference, ahead of the vote-a-rama Thursday morning.

“The Republican agenda is one big broken promise,” said Schumer, criticizing the Republican budget bill. “We still haven’t seen the bill, because they are fighting with each other.”

Trump v Cook: Donald Trump’s case for firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, as he continues to exert greater control over the US central bank.

Trump v Slaughter: A case which examines the legality of Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member, Rebecca Slaughter.

Trump v Barbara: In which the court will decide if the administration’s attempts to restrict birthright citizenship are unconstitutional.

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Kentucky congressman who championed Epstein bill failed to fight off attacks from president in victory for Trump

• Trump critic Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky Republican House primary

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Trump told reporters he is giving Iran until the weekend or early next week, to make a deal to end the war.

He said that yesterday he was within an hour of deciding to resume bombing Iran but that his negotiators had reported progress in talks.

I never tell anybody when. But they knew that we were very close. I would say we were. I was an hour away from making the decision to go today, and we would probably not be talking about a beautiful ballroom today. We’d be talking about that.

I had made the decision, so they called up. They had heard I made the decision. They said, sir, could you give us a couple of more days because we think they’re being reasonable.

Well, I mean, I’m saying 2 or 3 days, maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday something. Maybe early next week, a limited period of time, because we can’t let them have a new nuclear weapon.

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Even in the scale of global attacks on civilians and crackdowns on dissent, the magnitude of Iran’s violence against protesters stands out.

The snow piles clogging up the capital’s streets would seem quaint in some cities — including ones prone to far greater quantities of snow.

Israel recovered the body of Rani Gvili, the last of the 251 hostages taken into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Here’s what happened to him and the others.

It’s been a strange moment of mixed messages for residents of an Arctic territory once again at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s dealings on the world stage.

See how President Donald Trump’s capture of Maduro and control of Venezuela’s oil sales could affect China, Cuba and the United States.

See how Trump’s capture of Maduro and control of Venezuela’s oil sales could affect China, Cuba and the United States.

Here’s how the protests across Iran and deadly regime crackdown echo previous moments of anti-government unrest, and how they diverge.

Nobel officials said Friday that the prize may not be shared or transferred.

See how Trump’s capture of Maduro and control of Venezuela’s oil sales could affect China, Cuba and the United States.

Officials ruled out the possibility of an attack and are investigating the cause of the blaze, which left many of the injured with “significant, severe burns.”

Officials ruled out the possibility of an attack and are investigating the cause of the blaze, which left many of the injured with “significant, severe burns.”

Officials ruled out the possibility of an attack and are investigating the cause of the blaze, which left many of the injured with “significant, severe burns.”

Displaced seven times, Diana Shams intended to return to her home, which survived years of war in Gaza only to be destroyed in the final hours before the ceasefire.