Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) delivered a sharp rebuke against Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, dismissing him as someone who doesn’t even belong to the Democratic Party and whose views he strongly opposes.
“Everything that I’ve read on him, I don’t really agree with virtually any of it, politically,” Fetterman told Fox News in a candid assessment of the Queens assemblyman’s platform.
“That’s just where I’m at as a Democrat. He’s not even a Democrat, honestly,” Fetterman added, making clear he sees a fundamental divide between Mamdani and the Democratic Party.

President Trump on Jerome Powell: “I think he’s doing a terrible job. I think we should be 3 points lower… He’s costing our country a lot of money.”

The U.S. is breaking ground on its first rare earth mine in more than seven decades.

President Donald Trump announced during an interview with NBC News that he intends to deliver a “major statement” concerning Russia this coming Monday, though he offered no additional information on the nature of the announcement.
Over the past several days, Trump has voiced growing displeasure with Russian President Vladimir Putin, particularly over the continued conflict in Ukraine and what Trump perceives as Putin’s reluctance to earnestly engage in negotiations for peace.
“I think I’ll have a major statement to make on Russia on Monday,” Trump said in his comments to NBC News, stopping short of providing any further clarification.

President Donald Trump said in a letter that he will raise taxes on many imported goods from Canada to 35%, deepening a rift between two North American countries that have suffered a debilitating blow to their decades-old alliance. The Thursday letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is an aggressive increase to the top 25% tariff rates that Trump first imposed in March after months of threats. Trump’s tariffs were allegedly in an effort to get Canada to crack down on fentanyl smuggling despite the relatively modest trafficking in the drug from that country. Trump has also expressed frustration with a trade deficit with Canada that largely reflects oil purchases by America.

China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics” and the United States and other allied countries are ready to further boost deterrence against Beijing’s aggression, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander said. Adm. Stephen Koehler, who oversees the largest naval fleet command in the world, gave assurances Friday in a Manila forum of U.S. commitment to help defend freedom of passage and the rule of law in the Indo-Pacific region.

Iran’s security services have threatened the life of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after her native country’s war with Israel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and activists said Friday. Mohammadi said that the threats have come through both her lawyer and other indirect channels as she’s kept up public statements about the Islamic Republic’s theocracy, women’s rights and others issues, the committee said. “The clear message, in her own words, is that ‘I have been directly and indirectly threatened with ‘physical elimination’ by agents of the regime,’” the committee said in its announcement. The Free Narges Coalition Steering Committee, which advocates for the 53-year-old laureate, said that the threats came from Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors launched a preliminary i