This morning’s arrest outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan was more than a street-scene scuffle. Federal authorities say an incendiary device was ignited outside the federal building that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, and the FBI’s New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is treating it as a serious investigation. Two to three people More

President Donald Trump stepped into a headline-making squabble and put an end to it with a single, plain sentence: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested while visiting the United States. The trigger for the row was New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani saying he is “in active conversation” with the city’s lawyers about More

Over the weekend two outspoken figures — Bill Maher and CNN’s Van Jones — told the Democratic Party what a lot of ordinary voters already know: the party is drifting toward radical ideas that push moderates away. If you’re keeping score, that’s not the kind of help Democrats wanted from a longtime liberal and a More

The House Republican leadership has released the text of a short-term Continuing Resolution and plans a floor vote this week to keep the government funded at current levels through December 4. This stopgap, commonly called a CR, is designed to push the immediate funding deadline past the midterm elections and give Congress more time to More

The Food and Drug Administration quietly admitted what a lot of people feared: a lab test linking the Cyclospora outbreak to a Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce sample was wrong. The agency reclassified the result as a false positive, while Taylor Farms says the FDA “apologized.” The recall of iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico remains More