Socialist upstart candidate Zohran Mamdani entered the first general mayoral election debate as the front-runner and left the same way — despite some strong performances from his rivals, a Post panel of political experts said.

Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s odds of winning the 2025 New York mayoral election in November took a knock after his televised debate on Thursday night against independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, according to a leading bookmaker.

Zohran Mamdani did not make any major or minor mistakes. He was calm, smiled and made his points over attacks from rivals Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.

Prince Andrew has surrendered the use of his royal title, the Duke of York, completing a fall from grace that began nearly six years ago with a calamitous television interview about his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

When the transgender fever fully subsides, it won’t be because of how celebrities like Kiera Knightley respond to idiotic questions about it. But it’s telling when celebrity windsocks no longer feel obligated to pay ritual fealties to social contagions, because social contagions rely on ritual fealties to survive. In a Decider interview published last week, Knightley — who voices a character in a forthcoming audiobook recording of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series — was asked if she was “aware” of the fury directed at Rowling and, by extension, the Potter franchise for Rowling’s “ongoing campaign against trans people.” (By this, the interviewer meant Rowling’s insistence that men cannot become women and should not be enabled to invade private women’s spaces.)...

Hamas defended the gruesome public executions it carried out against Palestinians earlier this week as the terrorist group says it has no plans to lay down its arms — throwing a massive wrench into the already tense peace negotiations with Israel. Hamas politburo member Mohammed Nazzal told Reuters that “exceptional measures” had to be taken when it carried out public killings in Gaza on Monday, which drew widespread criticism for their extreme violence. He claimed that those executed were criminals guilty of murder...

The Justice Department’s indictment of John Bolton, who was President Donald Trump's former national security adviser before becoming a vocal critic of him, marks a significant—and in one respect unprecedented—moment in U.S. legal and political history. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on October 16, 2025, the case accuses Bolton of mishandling classified national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act...

Record high levels of negative emotions are typifying the average American worker’s day-to-day. That’s according to Gallup, which has been measuring U.S. employee life evaluation over a number of years. In 2019, 60 percent of employees said they were thriving, but by 2024, that number had dropped to 50 percent...

In the late night hours of Oct. 11, the remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed Alaska's southwest coast, bringing hurricane-force winds and record flooding to numerous Alaska Native villages on the coast. Evacuees and rescuers describe massive destruction: utility poles snapped in half, boardwalks – the roads and sidewalks in many tundra villages – uprooted, houses floated off their foundations, some with families still inside...

Fox News employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according to legal filings. The employees’ statements were excerpted in a 771-page filing released last week, made public as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the network by voting technology company Smartmatic...