Newark mayor Ras Baraka arrested, then released at immigration detention protest (Picture credit: AP) Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was released Friday night after being arrested during a protest at a federal immigration detention centre in Newark. Baraka had been taken into custody by federal agents outside Delaney Hall, where he had joined demonstrators opposing the […]
Newark mayor was arrested for protesting outside the ICE prison which he called illegal. Newark mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody by the federal police at an ICE detention center in New Jersey which he and his team went to visit. Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, said […]
From left incumbent Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, River Church Cincinnati pastor Cory Bowman , and candidate Brian Frank COLUMBUS: Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval will face Cory Bowman, the half brother of Vice President JD Vance, this fall after the pair were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s primary. Pureval placed a dominant first in the […]
Filmmaker Mira Nair’s son Zohran Mamdani is emerging as a strong contender for the NYC mayoral poll. Kamala Harris’s step-daughter Ella Emhoff has officially endorsed Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. “I’m passing the phone to the next mayor of New York City who’s going to make New York happier, healthier […]
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens (Image: AP) ATLANTA: After leading Atlanta out of the COVID-19 pandemic and a coinciding crime spike, Mayor Andre Dickens believes he deserves a second term as the city soon hosts its most high-profile event since the 1996 Olympics. Dickens recently launched his reelection campaign with $1.4 million in the bank and […]
Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s’ government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and […]
CINCINNATI: Cory Bowman was feeling inspired in January as he headed home after watching his half brother, JD Vance, be inaugurated as vice president. The 36-year-old Bowman, who shares a father with Vance, was already active in the community, starting an evangelical church in Cincinnati’s West End and later opening a coffee shop. But he […]
_Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (AP) JACKSON: The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to keep his job. In a matchup Jackson voters have seen before, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, seeking a third term, faces state Sen. John Horhn in a Democratic primary runoff on Tuesday. […]
US president Donald Trump has called ranked-choice voting a “fraudulent joke” and a threat to democracy, shortly after Democrat Barbara Lee was elected as mayor of Oakland, California, through this very system.“Ranked-choice voting is one of the greatest threats to democracy. It is totally and very fraudulent joke,” president Trump posted on Truth Social.Barbara Lee, […]
The mayor of Washington, D.C., ordered citywide spending and hiring freezes on Tuesday and raised the possibility of furloughs after the U.S. House of Representatives left for recess with the District still facing a potential billion-dollar budget cut. The order does not lay out specific cuts, but it paves the way for possible steep reductions […]
