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The Gist - Rent-Stabilized and City-Run: Mamdani Rises as Rivals Flail
Harry Siegel joins to break down the chaotic New York mayoral race, where Zohran Mamdani looks like the presumptive next mayor but hasn’t been fully tested. Siegel warns that old tweets, rent-stabilized housing, and city-run grocery promises could become liabilities once federal pressure mounts. Plus, Trump’s trade war bets on an eight-to-eleven-year payoff, a timeline that outlasts his legal term limit and raises questions about intent.
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The Source - How California could counter Texas redistricting
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Consider This from NPR - How hundreds of babies and children ended up in a mass grave in Ireland
It's part of a sad history in Ireland that is now being unearthed, literally. Scientists believe that nearly 800 babies and children are buried in a mass grave behind one former mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland.
NPR’s Lauren Frayer reports on the work that forensic scientists are now doing to bring those remains to light.
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Newshour - Israel says not interested in “partial deal” with Hamas
A day after Hamas accepts a new ceasefire proposal in Gaza, an Israeli government spokesman tells us Israel is not interested in a “partial deal. We ask what's changed since Israel backed a very similar proposal three months ago.
Also in the programme: the White House says work continues on hammering out security guarantees for Ukraine; and a cocoa connoisseur on new scientific insights into what makes great chocolate.
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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom’s $250M Redistricting Power Grab
Meanwhile, California faces skyrocketing gas and electricity prices, mass population flight, and crumbling infrastructure.
Victor Davis Hanson breaks down how Newsom’s redistricting strategy mirrors Texas in name only and targets Republican incumbents on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“What Gavin wants to do is he’s targeting Republican congresswomen and men. And he thinks that he can redraw the districts and put two Republican incumbents in the same district. And then, one will either drop out or they’ll have to run against each other and one will win, and they will be diminished by half. He doesn’t care about the 40% of his own state that won’t have any congressional representation. That’s not on his plan.”
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(0:00) California's Redistricting Effort
(0:27) Comparison with Texas Redistricting
(0:35) Critique of Newsom's Actions
(3:08) California's Political Landscape
(8:17) Newsom's Performance Art
(8:31) Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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State of the World from NPR - President Trump’s Talks with the Leaders of Russia and Ukraine
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