Another round of No Kings protests is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18. It comes as members of the Trump administration push back on those protests.

Donald Trump has promised to crack down on dissent and sent troops into US cities. His allies are claiming antifa, the decentralized antifascist movement, is behind plans to protest. He’s looking for any pretext to go after his opponents.

Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure on Wednesday that would bar President Trump from using military force against boats in the Caribbean Sea, turning back an effort to check his power to wage war without authorization from Congress. The vote against bringing up the Democratic resolution was 51 to 48, mostly along party lines. It came less than a week after the U.S. military carried out the fourth strike in the Trump administration’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners in the Caribbean.

Admiral Alvin Holsey, who has led U.S. military efforts in Latin America for less than a year, will step down as commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) at the end of 2025, marking another high-profile departure from the Pentagon during a turbulent period of American military escalation in the Caribbean.

The military commander overseeing the Pentagon’s escalating attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs said on Thursday that he was stepping down.

Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander overseeing US military operations against suspected Venezuelan drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, will retire at the end of the year, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday.

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.