Mamdani flexes political muscle; Trump’s Reflecting Pool headache grows
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wasn’t on the ballot, but three candidates he backed won Tuesday night. The results suggest the mayor’s political influence is growing fast. Plus, the Senate votes to rebuke Trump’s Iran policy. Even though the measure won’t change policy, it sends a message. And the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool controversy […]
Mamdani’s influence spreads as his leftist candidates rack up wins
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shaping up to be a political powerhouse with three Democratic U.S. House candidates he endorsed winning primary elections on Tuesday. The Mamdani-backed candidates won key House primaries giving the mayor a series of high-profile victories as he looks to expand his influence inside the party. In northern Manhattan and the Bronx, Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated veteran Congressman Adriano Espaillat in one […]
Camp Mystic files for bankruptcy, leaving lawsuits over flooding deaths in limbo
Camp Mystic, the Texas facility where more than two dozen girls were killed in flash flooding last summer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, nearly one year after the tragedy. The filing pauses multiple lawsuits against the camp. In the new paperwork, the camp listed debts over $10 million, with assets ranging between $100,001 […]
Trump cancels bipartisan housing bill signing hours before event
President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his planned signing of a bipartisan housing bill on Wednesday, saying he will keep the measure from becoming law until Congress passes an unrelated bill imposing new restrictions on voter registration and mail-in voting. The housing bill, passed on Tuesday, aims to lower the cost of buying a home by […]
The AI boom is straining the grid. Congress wants tech to pay – literally
The battle over AI data centers and their impact on local communities is moving to Capitol Hill. A House Energy and Commerce Committee panel is set to consider a bipartisan bill on Wednesday that would require data center developers to help cover the cost of power-grid upgrades needed to support their growing electricity demands. The […]
Where Peter Thiel’s secret network is placing blame for data leak
A week after it appeared to inadvertently expose its private information online, billionaire Peter Thiel’s secretive, invitation-only network of elites now claims the release was a malicious hack. The organization, Dialog, also has demanded that Wired — one of the outlets that followed Straight Arrow’s reporting on the leak — hand over the exposed data. […]
Army wants drone testing to look more like Ukraine’s battlefield
The Army wants to test new low-cost drone defenses in conditions that look more like Ukraine. The U.S. Army plans to establish at least two domestic testing ranges over the next four to six weeks that simulate battlefield conditions in Ukraine. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said the ranges would let drone manufacturers, counter-drone developers and […]
Alleged antifa leader gets 100 years in prison for attack on Texas ICE facility
Eight members of an alleged antifa cell who were found guilty of terrorism-related charges for a 2025 attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas have been sentenced – one of them to a century in prison. A federal judge sentenced Benjamin Song, a former Marine reservist convicted of attempted murder for […]
How a lack of faith is undermining the US recycling system
A plastic bottle is placed into a recycling bin, the bin is rolled out to the curb … and then what? Many Americans don’t actually know what happens next, and that uncertainty is leading to fewer and fewer recyclers, according to a new report. The nonprofit Recycling Partnership is releasing a phased report on the […]
