Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who catapulted to national attention during the race for New York City Mayor, is set to be sworn on New Year’s 2026.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a New York phenomenon, but his democratic socialist message has an audience far beyond the city’s five boroughs.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are in U.S. custody following his capture in the capital of Caracas early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump said during a midday Saturday press conference.

A.I. is broad. A breakthrough in manufacturing may affect only manufacturing, but an A.I. breakthrough could transform manufacturing, physics, finance, music and dozens of other fields. So the backlash is just as sprawling, and there are various reasons for it:

He’s the mayor-elect of New York. Will he also be America’s mayor? Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Nov. 4 election not only makes him the leader of the Big Apple. It also turns him into one of the most high-profile Democrats in the country − one ...