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, 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 […]

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 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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Just months after Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., faced criticism over his friendship with former Sen. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., he is once again facing new criticism — his use of his campaign funds.  This week, Politico published an article about Gallego’s spending of his leadership PAC, a political action committee, to finance family trips to Miami, […]

At a time when Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on anything, an unexpected consensus is emerging across the country: America needs to build more homes.  From red Texas and Montana to deep-blue California and Minnesota, housing reform has produced unusual political roommates and scrambled traditional partisan divides.  Now, with the advance of the […]