By Maria Tsvetkova and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) -Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state lawmaker and self-described democratic socialist, was poised on Tuesday to win New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary in a surprising upset over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. In brief remarks to supporters, Cuomo, 67, who had been seeking a political …
(Reuters) -Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday conceded to state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary election for New York City mayor, setting up the 33-year-old democratic socialist Mamdani to win the party’s nomination in the heavily Democratic city. (Reporting by Joseph Ax and Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Tom Hogue)
By Dietrich Knauth and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from withholding funds awarded to 14 states including California, New York, Illinois and Washington for electric vehicle charger infrastructure. U.S. District Judge Tana Lin in Seattle, Washington, ruled that the states were likely to succeed in …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -One of the U.S. DOGE Service’s best-known employees, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the U.S. government, a White House official said Tuesday, a month after the acrimonious departure of his former boss Elon Musk. The White House official gave no further details on the move and Coristine did not …
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By Michael Erman (Reuters) -A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study’s author said. The report, called “Thimerosal as a Vaccine …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up negotiations with Harvard University and expects a deal by the end of June to resolve the White House’s campaign against the country’s oldest and richest university, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. On Friday, Trump said a deal could be announced “over the next week …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Columbia University said its IT systems experienced an outage that started on Tuesday morning, adding it was probing the incident and had notified law enforcement. There was no indication of any data being compromised, said a spokesperson for the New York-based university. “This morning, Columbia University IT systems experienced an …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump urged fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to advance his sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, as party hardliners and moderates squabbled over proposed spending cuts. Republican leaders are pushing to get what Trump calls his One Big Beautiful Bill Act through Congress and to his …
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By Patrick Wingrove NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tens of millions of people in major cities across the U.S. Northeast are facing record high temperatures on Tuesday on what was expected to be the worst day of an oppressive heat wave that has spread over much of the country since late last week. Temperatures in Washington and …
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By Tim McLaughlin and Timothy Gardner BOSTON (Reuters) -U.S. regional electric grid operators scrambled to avoid rotating blackouts on Tuesday, preserving razor-thin power generation margins as temperatures in the eastern half of the country soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). Jammed and overheated transmission lines caused congestion and lifted wholesale electricity prices in …
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