9 h. ago Zohran Mamdani’s videos are a masterclass. Eric Adams’ posts are getting more bizarre | Arwa Mahdawi

Adams is posting more on Instagram lately, and it’s hard not to see Mamdani’s elite TikTok strategy as the reason whyEric Adams, possible resident of New Jersey and mayor of New York City, is a man of many talents. He is the city’s “most famous vegan”, albeit one who eats fish. He has a knack for scoring freebies from foreign governments. He managed the great feat of being the first mayor in the city’s history to be indicted while in office. And, on top of all that, he may well be the most unintentionally hilarious man on the internet.Please see, as exhibit one, a classic piece of Adams surrealism from 2011, shot when the mayor was just a humble state senator. Dressed like an undertaker, Adams instructs viewers to search their child’s room for contraband. Per Adams, a jewelry box may have a gun in it, and the bullets may be behind a picture frame. Unappreciated for many years, the video finally found an audience when it went viral during Adams’s indictment. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Eric Adams raises $1 million in a single night for NYC mayoral campaign as his voters fear Mamdani

Mayor Eric Adams is running as an independent against Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani

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38 h. ago Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral ad campaign is going so viral he’s having trouble producing it

Democratic candidate unable to film new promo on city streets after being mobbed by passersby requesting pictures and wishing him well in the race for City Hall

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52 h. ago French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte attend yet another opulent banquet during three

It was another festive feast for French President, who tonight attended a banquet hosted by Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alastair King.

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4 d. ago Wimbledon legend's son wins first match at Grand Slam after Nick Kyrgios call

The son of a previous Wimbledon singles champion raised some eyebrows after he picked up his first win at the All England Club while competing in the junior event for the first time

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8 d. ago For Sean 'Diddy' Combs, could a lesser conviction mean a greater public rehabilitation?

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been acquitted of the most serious sex trafficking charges against him and convicted of lesser ones

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1 week ago California mayor on Trump’s immigration raids: ‘It is a campaign of domestic terror’

Former marine Arturo Flores condemns ‘a level of psychological warfare I’ve only seen in theaters of war’As a United States marine, Arturo Flores served in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he worked as a military police officer and trained dogs to find roadside bombs.It’s his experience in the military that has made what he’s seen on the streets of southern California in recent weeks all the more disturbing to him, Flores said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The VERY different childhoods of two boys raised just four miles apart

Childhood photos show Sam Winter spending his formative years in a stable, nurturing home, while images of Rakeem Miles at the same age hint at a life already veering off course.

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1 week ago Cuban singer using racy content to fund mayor campaign turns Miami into 'circus'

Seidy La Niña officially kicked off her campaign to become the next mayor of Miami, and has already caused a stir after she revealed the racy means she plans to fund the campaign

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1 week ago Mamdani heads to Harlem after stunning New York City primary results

Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary

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2 w. ago NYC Mayor Eric Adams rips into Mamdani’s ‘socialist’ agenda, says he ‘doesn’t have the authority’ to tax the rich

‘I'm competing against him because this is not a socialist city,’ Adams said

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2 w. ago Eric Adams says Zohran Mamdani was born with a ‘silver spoon’ as he launches reelection campaign

Incumbent attempts to frame race against Democratic challenger as contest between experience and privilege or ‘dirty fingernails and manicured nails’

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2 w. ago NYC Mayor Eric Adams kicks off reelection bid and casts Mamdani as having a 'silver spoon'

New York Mayor Eric Adams is kicking off his independent reelection bid

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2 w. ago Mayor of seaside town condemns his OWN council over plans to charge residents £70 to park outside their own homes

George Farquhar claimed he knew nothing about the contentious plans which are in response to visitors parking across driveways, on pavements, grass verges and even roundabouts.

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2 w. ago Trump brands Zohran Mamdani a ‘100% communist lunatic’ backed by ‘dummies’ who has a ‘grating’ voice

Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist and state lawmaker, won New York City’s Democratic primary on Tuesday and now faces reelection bid from current mayor Eric Adams, who will run as an independent

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2 w. ago Trump brands Mamdani a ‘100% Communist Lunatic’ backed by ‘dummies’ who has a ‘grating’ voice

Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist and state lawmaker, won New York City’s Democratic primary on Tuesday and now faces reelection bid from current mayor Eric Adams, who will run as an independent

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2 w. ago New York City closes arrival center for migrants in once grand Manhattan hotel

New York City has closed the arrival center for migrants it had established in a once grand Manhattan hotel

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2 w. ago Know thine enemy: my ‘rat walk’ with New York’s rat czar made me rethink vermin

An estimated 3 million rats live in New York City – so members of the ‘Rat Pack’ are working to ease human-rodent relationsI am standing near a tree bed in a bustling Brooklyn park, with only a few feet of dirt separating me from a “small” family of rats – that’s usually around eight of them, I’m told. I’ve come on this “rat walk” with a few dozen New Yorkers, all milling about awkwardly, subjecting ourselves to the kind of brainless small talk heard at speed dating events. But instead of looking for love, we’ve come to learn more about New York’s rodent population. Tonight, knowing thine enemy means we must slink among the rats.We’re led by Kathleen Corradi, the city’s famed rat czar, appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in 2023, and we are united by our visceral hatred of rats. We don’t want to see them scurry by on late-night walks home, or watch as they slink in and out of trash bags on the street. We especially don’t want them in our homes. As one exterminator put it to the famed metr...

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3 w. ago Fury as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fail to mark the annual 'Sussex Day' as historic county's mayoral hopeful demands they are stripped of the title

The former Suits star and her husband are under fire back in the UK after being accused of failing to show due respect to the county they derive their title from.

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3 w. ago Let women be horny – but Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover isn’t helping | Arwa Mahdawi

The Man’s Best Friend image has reopened a debate: sex-positive feminism or soft porn for the male gaze?Please join me for a quick game of “is this sex-positive feminism or just a lazy repackaging of the patriarchy”? Today’s protagonist is Sabrina Carpenter, a pop star whose music videos have got a Brooklyn priest demoted and might have played a small role in getting the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, indicted.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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