Politics

CNN reports: Adelita Grijalva will win Tuesday’s special Democratic primary in Arizona’s 7th congressional district, CNN projects. Grijalva, a former county supervisor, is the daughter of the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who represented the district for two decades before his death in March. She’ll be favored to win the Sept. 23 general election in this heavily Democratic district against …

The Hill reports: Dan Pfeiffer, a former staffer for former President Obama and co-host of the podcast “Pod Save America,” slammed a campaign ad for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks to clinch the 2025 mayor’s race in New York City. “This is one of the least compelling campaign videos that I have ever seen. No message. …

NewsNation reports: Ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is expected to announce this week that he is staying in the race for New York City mayor as an independent, sources told Nexstar’s NewsNation. A source close to Cuomo’s campaign said he is set to officially announce his plans to stay in the race as an independent while offering a proposal. …

The Associated Press reports: Democrat Janelle Stelson, who lost to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry by barely a percentage point in 2024, will run again in the right-leaning congressional district in Pennsylvania. Stelson, a one-time local TV anchor and personality, mounted a challenge to Perry, the former leader of the hardline House Freedom Caucus. It was designed to sway moderate …

Politico reports: A leader of the super PAC supporting New York City Mayor Eric Adams hopes to raise upwards of $10 million from the cryptocurrency community — and has alarmed government ethics groups in the process. In May, Eric Lerner, president of the Empower NYC super PAC, attended the same Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas where Adams traveled on the …

Axios reports: Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is proposing something unprecedented: Having Congress’ ethics office effectively adjudicate whether lawmakers are too cognitively impaired to do their jobs. The 36-year-old Washington Democrat is publicly calling out a dynamic many of her colleagues refuse to even address — arguing Congress’ aging membership is damaging the credibility of the whole institution. Gluesenkamp Perez, an …

The New York Times reports: David Gergen, an inside-the-Beltway veteran who helped shape the public images of four presidents, mostly Republicans, and who, after a turn as a magazine editor, trod a well-worn path from political insider to television commentator, died on Thursday in Lexington, Mass. He was 83. His death, at a retirement community, was caused by Lewy body …

Axios reports: Former President Obama is joining DNC chair Ken Martin for a high-dollar fundraiser in Red Bank, New Jersey, on Friday evening, Axios has learned. It’s Obama’s first fundraiser since the party’s devastating 2024 losses, and it comes after a string of public headaches for the DNC leadership team. The event comes ahead of New Jersey’s gubernatorial and state …

The New York Times reports: For Netanyahu, a truce also came with personal risk. As prime minister, he led a fragile coalition that depended on the support of far-right ministers who wanted to occupy Gaza, not withdraw from it. They sought a long war that would ultimately enable Israel to re-establish Jewish settlements in Gaza. If a cease-fire came too …

Gay City News reports: More than one million people identify as LGBTQIA+ in New York State and the community’s population has continued to rise, according to the results of a New York State Department of Health survey featuring statistics about the share of LGBTQ people who live in the state. About 8.2% of New York State’s population identifies as lesbian, …

The Hill reports: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved an amendment to the annual Justice Department funding bill aimed at blocking the Trump administration from keeping the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The committee voted 15-14 to adopt language that seeks to block funding from being used to relocate the headquarters from its current J. Edgar Hoover Building site …

ABC News reports: Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year’s attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News. The personnel moves were confirmed four days shy of the anniversary of the July 13, 2024, shooting incident that left Trump’s ear bloodied. Corey Comperatore, a firefighter …

The Washington Post reports: Linda Yaccarino, CEO of Elon Musk’s X, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down from the social media platform after two years in the position. Her departure comes a day after the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot launched into an antisemitic tirade Tuesday and invoked Adolf Hitler. Yaccarino, who was hired by Musk after he bought the …

The New York Times reports: Philadelphia’s largest public sector union reached a tentative labor agreement early Wednesday morning with the city’s mayor, ending an eight-day strike that had halted trash collection and other services. “The Strike is Over!” the union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33, posted on its Facebook page around 4:30 a.m. …

The New York Post reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed aside Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s threat to arrest him as “silly” and teased plans to swing through New York City in defiance of the socialist’s warning. “I’m not concerned about that,” Netanyahu told reporters in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday. “There’s enough craziness in …

NBC News reports: Independent Dan Osborn launched another run for the Senate in Nebraska on Tuesday after having waged a surprisingly competitive, though ultimately unsuccessful, campaign last year. And Osborn said the biggest difference between last year and next year will be his Republican opponent. “Everything that I talk about, I think Pete Ricketts embodies,” Osborn said in an interview, …

Politico reports: Two independent candidates in the New York City mayoral election — incumbent Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo — have been trying to get each other to drop their campaigns in the hopes of beating Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. So far, neither is budging. Adams said Monday that Cuomo is the number one obstacle standing in the way of …

Politico Europe reports: Russia’s former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit who was fired by President Vladimir Putin has shot himself dead, Russian authorities said Monday. According to Kremlin-controlled media, Starovoit was found dead with a gunshot wound in Odintsovo near Moscow. Officials said they believe it was a suicide. The Kremlin published a decree earlier Monday saying that Putin had fired …

NBC News reports: Centrist Rep. Don Bacon, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the House, said this week he doesn’t have the “hunger” for another grueling re-election campaign and won’t run for a sixth term next year. But Bacon, who spent 30 years in the Air Force and specialized in intelligence matters, said he’s interested in serving in an …

Reuters reports: The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBTQ rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now rolling back such protections. Western diplomats had previously voiced concerns about the renewal of the mandate of South African scholar Graeme Reid …