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Zohran Mamdani’s win is a template for Democratic revival The New York mayor-elect married socioeconomic policies and message discipline to moral clarity. Democrats should apply the same principles going forward Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race is more than an improbable municipal election win; it is a template for Democratic revival, one that can marry socioeconomic policies and message discipline to unambiguous moral clarity. I first interviewed Mamdani shortly after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris left the Democratic Party in tatters. Already a declared candidate, the unabashed democratic socialist spoke with hyperfixation on affordability and the need to reorient the Democratic Party away from Wall Street and toward the working class. I interviewed Mamdani multiple times over the next year, including amid a surge of Islamophobic attacks in the final weeks of the mayoral campaign.

As the Senate advances a plan to end the government shutdown, what happens now? As the ongoing government shutdown was poised to begin in late September, three members of the Senate Democratic conference — Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Maine’s Angus King — broke party ranks and voted with the Republican majority to prevent the breakdown. That gave GOP leaders 55 votes, five short of the 60-vote threshold. At that point, the Republican plan, in a nutshell, could be summarized in one word: wait.

BREAKING: The U.S. government has shut down for the first time since 2019 with no immediate path to reopen it.

After a manhunt lasting more than 24 hours, authorities have taken an individual into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah university event on Wednesday. The person in custody is Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, five law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News. President Donald Trump initially broke the news during a segment on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning. “Can I always say ‘I think’ just to protect us all — and so Fox doesn’t get sued, we all don’t get sued and everything else — but I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody. Everyone did a great job,” he said. From the beginning, authorities had a number of leads to go on. On Thursday morning, the FBI announced that law enforcement had recovered a high-powered bolt action rifle in a wooded area near campus. The spokesperson for the bureau also said it had video footage of the shooter, a shoe impression and imprints of ...

The U.K.’s annual inflation rate hit a hotter-than-expected 3.8%in July, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. Economists polled by Reuters had anticipated inflation would reach 3.7% in the twelve months to July, after it picked up to 3.6% in June, exceeding forecasts. July core inflation, which excludes more volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, rose by an annual 3.8%, up from 3.7% in the twelve months to June. The latest data comes after the Bank of England earlier this month voted by a fine margin to cut interest rates from 4.25% to 4%, as the central bank resumed what it describes as a “gradual and careful” approach to monetary easing. While the BOE was widely expected to trim rates by 25 basis points at the time, traders and economists were keen to see the breakdown of support for the move. In the end, policymakers had to vote twice on the rate cut decision, and a majority of 5-4 opted to cut. BOE policy committee m...