69 h. ago Zohran Mamdani's biggest threat is not Donald Trump, it's the Democratic old guard | Emma Brockes

The New York mayor-elect sells a political message further to the left than any American politician has dared to in recent memoryThe morning after Zohran Mamdani’s startling mayoral victory in New York, the most arresting visual image was not of the mayor-elect celebrating in an applause-filled room, but the breakdown of voting patterns across the city. Street by street, practically building by building, you could index New Yorkers’ support for Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo to the probable amount of rent they were paying. A middle-income precinct on the Upper West Side, for example, showed up as a small island of Mamdani voters in a sea of Cuomo-voting wealthier neighbourhoods. Solid lower-income support for Mamdani in modest midtown gave way to the incredible banking wealth of Tribeca and its majority support of Cuomo.Allowing for large anomalies – Staten Island, a middle- to lower-income part of the city, voted heavily for Cuomo, as did lower-income Hassidic neighbourhoods in Brooklyn a...

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4 d. ago Dick Cheney warns about the dangers of Donald Trump in resurfaced clip following former vice president’s death

Dick Cheney warned there had never been an individual who was “a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump” in a 2022 video which has resurfaced with the news that the former vice president has died.

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4 d. ago George W Bush pays tribute to ‘honorable’ Dick Cheney after death aged 84: Latest updates

Powerful but polarizing Republican at odds with his party in later years over rejection of President Donald Trump, whom he called the ‘greatest ever threat to our Republic’

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4 d. ago Dick Cheney death latest: George W Bush’s influential vice president and architect of the ‘War on Terror’ dies aged 84

Powerful but polarizing Republican at odds with his party in later years over rejection of President Donald Trump, whom he called the ‘greatest ever threat to our Republic’

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5 d. ago Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election

President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post and says he does not want to send ‘good money after bad’On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, President Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump makes 'nuke' threat in bid to scare Russia and China as WW3 fears rise

Donald Trump appeared to announce that the U.S. would resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an "equal basis" with Russia and China.

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1 week ago Donald Trump blasts Putin over nuclear missile test with stark submarine threat

Trump's warning came after a crowing speech this weekend which saw Putin celebrate the successful test flight of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile doomsday weapon nicknamed "Flying Chernobyl"

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2 w. ago Donald Trump issues his toughest threat yet to Hamas as he reveals details of Gaza 'stabilization force'

Donald Trump warned Hamas that they will face a massive 'problem' if the ceasefire collapses, as he revealed plans for an 'international stabilization force' preparing to enter the territory.

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2 w. ago Trump administration considering curbs on exports to China made with US software

Plan would include everything from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing’s latest round of rare earth export restrictionsUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration is considering a plan to curb a dizzying array of software-powered exports to China, from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing’s latest round of rare earth export restrictions, according to a US official and three people briefed by US authorities.While the plan is not the only option on the table, it would make good on Donald Trump’s threat earlier this month to bar “critical software” exports to China by restricting global shipments of items that contain US software or were produced using US software. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago MIKEY SMITH: 13 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he bulldozes White House and issues Gaza threat

Trump threatened to send troops into Gaza, demolished part of the White House, and nearly got in a scrap with an Ambassador. Here's everything you need to know

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3 w. ago Donald Trump issues harrowing threat to Hamas amid Gaza ceasefire deal

President Donald Trump has warned Hamas that the US is prepared to bring about their disarmament "quickly and perhaps violently" after the terror group "failed to fulfil their side of the deal".

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3 w. ago Donald Trump issues harrowing threat to Hamas as Gaza ceasefire deal hangs by a thread

Donald Trump, the US President, spoke to journalists at the White House after Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed authorities received the remains of four more dead hostages

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3 w. ago Putin's closest ally issues chilling nuclear war threat after Trump remarks

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a chilling nuclear war threat after Donald Trump said he would send Tomahawk missile systems to Ukraine

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