Mayor Zohran Mamdani named a housing commissioner and announced that the city would hold public hearings where frustrated renters could voice their complaints.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Dina Levy, a New York State housing official, to head New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a news conference with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private estate and club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday morning.
Ukraine’s government supports the removal of a dictator while members of Parliament question the wisdom of endorsing military interventions, even against a Russian ally.
Ukrainian soldiers salvaging parts from a Russian armored vehicle in Bucha, Ukraine in 2022. Some Ukrainians worry that the U.S. intervention in Venezuela and capture of its president will encourage Russia to toughen its military pressure on Ukraine.
New York City’s newly elected mayor planned to spend Saturday announcing a pedestrian safety plan. Then President Trump brought a captured foreign leader to his doorstep.
An offensive by Yemeni government-allied forces appeared to turn the tide in a conflict that has become a proxy clash between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Officials said that leaders were in survival mode amid anti-government protests and the prospect of again coming into the cross hairs of Israel and the United States.
A photograph released by Iranian state media showing protesters in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on Monday. The demonstrations have convulsed Iran for a week.
In Crans-Montana, the ski resort where at least 40 people died in a New Year’s Day blaze, many were struggling to process one of the worst such disasters in Switzerland’s history.
“We used to be a bit more cardio-forward, and now we’re dedicating about half the gym floor to strength and about half the club floor to cardio,” said Colleen Keating, chief executive of Planet Fitness.
The 10-cent increase is modest, less than 4 percent of the current fare, at a time when other public transit systems in the United States are imposing double-digit percentage increases.
Nicolás Maduro balked at a gilded exile. U.S. officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, known for stabilizing Venezuela’s economy.
Experts have said that Venezuela is not a major drug producer but a minor cocaine transit country, with most of the cocaine flowing through it headed to Europe.
President Trump opened a new chapter in American nation building as he declared that the United States had toppled Venezuela’s leader and would “run” the country for an indefinite period.
Mr. Mamdani, a staunch critic of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, knew he would not extend the orders, but he had to decide how and when he would rescind them.
On his first day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked every order that former Mayor Eric Adams issued after his indictment in September 2024 on federal corruption charges.
The former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., and the former wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, is working hard and pushing deals with American business interests. She’s also up late at parties.
When President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras was extradited in 2022, his nation’s capital celebrated. President Trump pardoned him last month anyway.
Highways were blocked and a regional airport shut down on Saturday when the latest in a long run of drenching rainstorms coincided with especially high tides.
Tidal flooding in low-lying areas of Marin County, in the San Francisco Bay Area, left Highway 101 awash and inundated neighborhoods surrounding Corte Madera Creek on Saturday.
The bike-lane project, a source of corruption charges during the Adams administration, will be finished as planned in Greenpoint, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would finish the original, full plan for the roadway as soon as weather permitted, and that he would not be “bowed by big-money interests.”
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