Politics

In his first speech as the next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani made clear he and his city are coming for President Donald Trump. “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said at his victory speech in…

What to Know Prop 50 was the only question before voters in Tuesday’s California special election. The measure asked the state’s 23 million registered voters whether they authorize temporary changes to congressional district maps approved by state lawmakers. Congressional district maps are usually redrawn once a decade after each census and by an independent voter-approved…

Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. And while a debate about the future of the Democratic Party may have only just begun, there are signs that the economy — specifically, Trump’s inability to deliver the economic turnaround he promised last fall — may be a…

More than 760,000 Los Angeles County residents in Congressional District 42 will see a change in their congressional representation as Proposition 50 will pass, according to an NBC News projection. Congressional District 42 has been steadfastly Democratic as represented by Rep. Robert Garcia, a former Long Beach mayor and progressive voice within the Democratic Party.…

Two people on board an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific were killed by a U.S. military strike, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. Hegseth said on X that the boat was targeted in a “lethal kinetic strike” in international waters and killed two “narco-terrorists.” He also included video of the strike in the…

The Dream Center is expanding services for Los Angeles-area residents who remain in limbo as funding for a key part of the nation’s social safety net remains uncertain. Meals will be offered at the Echo Park location Monday through Friday, including breakfast (6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.); lunch (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.); and dinner…

In the first major elections of President Donald Trump’s second term, voters in Virginia, New Jersey, California and New York City are expressing broad dissatisfaction with Trump — and with both political parties, according to early results from the NBC News Exit Poll. Most voters in those elections are dissatisfied with the way things are…

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is “stupid.” “Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Mamdani, who is a…

Sen. Alex Padilla has announced that he will not pursue a run for governor of California in next year’s election. The former Los Angeles City Council member, California secretary of state and state lawmaker released a statement Tuesday as voters cast ballots in the Prop 50 statewide special election. “It is with a full heart…

At least two FBI employees involved in former investigations into President Donald Trump were told on Monday that they had been fired, only to learn later in the day that those terminations had been reversed or put on hold, according to six people familiar with the decisions. Then on Tuesday morning, those two employees learned…