Readers from around the world asked about Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s surprising primary win, its effect on national politics and how The Times covers elections.
With the contested Democratic primary for mayor decided, New York City voters can expect to be inundated with political ads leading up to the general election in November.
On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist running for mayor, will meet with the who’s who of the corporate world as he prepares for the general election.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is meeting with more than 100 business leaders on Tuesday. Some of them are wary of him winning the general election in November.
CATL, a Chinese company that is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicle batteries, displayed at the Shanghai auto show in April a lithium-ion battery that can be recharged in five minutes.
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.
Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.
The government said that the personal details of 18,000 Afghans were accidentally revealed in 2022. The previous government had secured a legal order to prevent any reporting on the subject.
British soldiers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2020. The disclosure about the data exposure comes at a time when immigration is a sensitive issue in British politics.
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.
Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.
After European leaders stepped up military spending, President Trump aligned himself more closely with them on the war. But his tariffs threats have left bruises.
Firefighters in Odesa, Ukraine, this month after a Russian strike. President Trump warned Moscow that he would impose new economic punishments if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
Stormy weather in New York City on Monday. A few lingering showers are expected across parts of the New York City area, New Jersey, Long Island and southern Connecticut on Tuesday.
Shipping containers at a port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. European Union officials say that if President Trump follows through on his tariff threats, it could upend trans-Atlantic trade.
Among the ideas being promoted: knocking on every single door in a House district and awarding cash prizes for the most effective new ways to reach voters.
Door knocking — both where to do it and whether it is still effective in a digital age — is being studied by Democratic strategists to identify what went wrong in 2024.
A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target Irish Catholics in the territory.
A fire set in the streets during an anti-immigrant riot last month in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Violence there erupted after two boys were charged with the attempted oral rape of a teenage girl.
Barely a week after devastating floods destroyed Camp Mystic and killed at least 132, Camp CAMP, which serves disabled youth, reopened Monday, thanks to a herculean cleanup led by a volunteer army.
Camp CAMP staff members helped a camper ride a horse shortly after the facility opened on Monday in Center Point, Texas.
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