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Zohran Mamdani will be taking office as mayor of New York in just five weeks. His transition team continues to make announcements about the new administration, recently unveiling a 400-person advisory group, broken up into 17 committees. Democracy Now! speaks with the incoming first deputy mayor, Dean Fuleihan, on how Mamdani plans to implement his progressive vision. “Government, working together across agencies with clear direction, can accomplish the needs of New Yorkers, and that’s what the mayor-elect has put forward,” says Fuleihan. Fuleihan also comments on Mamdani’s meeting with President Trump, which was surprisingly warm. “We look for help wherever we can get it, while also maintaining our principles and defending New Yorkers,” he said.

During a controversial Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump defended Mohammed bin Salman when a reporter asked about the Saudi crown prince’s involvement in the 2018 murder of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi. “The man sitting in the White House next to President Trump is a murderer,” says Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN, an organization founded by Khashoggi in 2018. To Whitson, Trump’s main motivation for cozying up to Saudi Arabia is financial. “The U.S. government [is] promising to deploy American men and women soldiers to defend the Saudi crown prince … in exchange for profits for U.S. companies, U.S. businesses and U.S. officials.”

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Terri Williams, who lives in northern Texas, started volunteering as a high schooler in the mid-1970s—at first for Planned Parenthood, educating people about birth control. In retirement, she hasn’t stopped. Linda McMahon’s 2024 nomination as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, a prelude to attempts in dismantling the department, led Williams to double down on […]

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both their shores.  The Trump […]

Republicans fret they may lose their congressional majority even before the midterms, Donald Trump ponders axing FBI Director Kash Patel, and the skyrocketing cost of Turkey Day.

The rightist ex-leader was found guilty of masterminding a plan to assassinate his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The annual budget is expected to include a series of tax increases to appease bond investors worried by the country’s hefty debt burden.

If and when the committee finalizes the December date, there will be lots to talk about.