Katie Wilson, the newly elected self-described socialist mayor of Seattle who campaigned on taxing the wealthy in the city, has been compared to New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who also focused his campaign on the economic hardship faced by everyday people in his city.
The financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald is having its best year ever, raising new questions about grift in the Trump administration since Howard Lutnick’s sons are running the company.
Gen Z protesters played a central role on Saturday in protests that broke out across Mexico to reject the government’s lackluster effort to crack down on crime and corruption inside the country.
Russia carried out its biggest attack on Kyiv since the start of the war, launching 430 drones and 18 missiles into the capital, which prompted the Ukrainians to launch missiles into Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was forced on the defensive last week after the announcement of a corruption investigation focused on his inner circle that involves a $100 million kickback scandal.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Russia has been ramping up its weapons production to levels that make it seem that the Kremlin has no intention of stopping in Ukraine and is, in fact, girding for a wider war against Europe.
Major companies in the U.S. could lose big business if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds after boom years during the Gaza genocide, according to a report.
The Israeli government last week approved a controversial bill that would impose the death penalty for those whose acts helped cause the death of an Israeli if the crime committed was carried out with the “objective of harming the state of Israel or the rebirth of the Jewish people.”
The Houthis indicated last week that they will end their military campaign in the Red Sea that was in defense of the Palestinians during the two-year genocide committed by Israel in Gaza.
This year’s olive harvest in the West Bank has been an even more violent one than most for Palestinians, and matters got so bad that even Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, condemned the violence.