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Mamdani Plans to Offer 30% Discount on Meat and Produce at City-Owned Grocery Stores

Mamdani Plans to Offer 30% Discount on Meat and Produce at City-Owned Grocery Stores

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open a slate of government-owned grocery stores stirred up critics who roasted the idea as the democratic socialist’s first step toward creating communist bread lines in the city. The mayor offered a different vision for the city-owned shops on Monday, announcing that they would instead provide a 30% discount on produce, meat and a host of other kitchen staples as a way to offset the rising food prices in one of America’s most expensive cities. The five stores are expected to be placed in each of the city’s five boroughs, with the first set to open toward the end of 2027 in the Bronx. He plans to have all five operational by the end of his four-year term. “Thirty percent off adds up to real money for New Yorkers,” Mamdani, a Democrat, said at a news conference at a warehouse in Brooklyn while standing in front of a display of fruits and vegetables. “In the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country in the …

Netanyahu Arrest: Mamdani Team Considered How to Pivot Away From Campaign Pledge During Mayoral Transition

Netanyahu Arrest: Mamdani Team Considered How to Pivot Away From Campaign Pledge During Mayoral Transition

Published by Sam Flores

It was not off-the-cuff stuff. “We knew it was going to be asked, and there was some discussion internally,” says Andrew Bard Epstein, the communications director and later creative director for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. “I certainly was pushing for him to make this arrest declaration.” Mamdani made the Netanyahu arrest pledge early on, but it wasn’t a fixture of his message on the campaign trail. ANGELA WEISS/Getty Images It wasn’t just about the recent news out of the ICC. In the intervening days, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo—then an inevitable but still undeclared Democratic mayoral candidate—had announced he would join Netanyahu’s legal defense team at the Hague. So Mamdani weighed in, full force, during the Zeteo interview. Then he was scarcely asked about the issue again “until the final weeks of the primary,” Epstein says, “when he was finally taken seriously by the political establishment, by people in media and local New York City reporters, who then I think resuscitated that question.” And then it mostly disappeared once more—until last week, when Mamdani sat …

Socialist Mamdani Concedes NYC Can’t Arrest Netanyahu, Breaking Another Campaign Promise

Socialist Mamdani Concedes NYC Can’t Arrest Netanyahu, Breaking Another Campaign Promise

Published by Jenni Sidey

With New York City rents at record highs, bus fares still in place, and the rise of the far left spooking taxpayers and businesses, Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears increasingly focused on playing world policeman instead of properly addressing the city’s affordability crisis. On Tuesday night, the socialist mayor was forced to concede that he cannot execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, exposing yet another campaign promise he cannot fulfill. “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” Mamdani said in a video posted on X. “The federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant,” he added. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. pic.twitter.com/YRezmW6YVx — Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 22, 2026 Mamdani said his administration reviewed every available legal option but maintained that Netanyahu is “not welcome” in NYC. President Trump said Monday that Netanyahu would not be arrested anywhere in the U.S., while Israel’s U.N. ambassador accused the socialist, …

Mamdani says New York City can’t arrest Netanyahu : NPR

Mamdani says New York City can’t arrest Netanyahu : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States at City Hall on Friday July 3, 2026 in New York. Anna Connors/Anna Connors/Pool The New York Times hide caption toggle caption Anna Connors/Anna Connors/Pool The New York Times NEW YORK — New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world’s top war-crimes court for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so. In the video Mamdani described the Israeli prime minister as a “war criminal” and said he is not welcome in New York City. “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” he said in a video posted on X. “The federal government however does and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant,” he added, referring to the International Criminal Court. Mamdani had told the New York Times earlier this month that he and the …

Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested despite Mamdani threat

Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested despite Mamdani threat

Published by Sam Flores

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a news conference in Jerusalem on June 15, 2026. Ronen Zvulun | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will not be arrested” when he visits New York in September, pushing back on a suggestion by Mayor Zohran Mamdani that such an arrest could happen. Mamdani has said New York City’s legal department is discussing the possibility of arresting Netanyahu when the prime minister is in the city to attend the United Nations General Assembly. “I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast that published Saturday. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years,” the mayor said. Read more CNBC politics coverage Trump, in a Truth Social post on Monday, said, “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, …

New York Mayor Mamdani Announces Murals to Commemorate World Cup 

New York Mayor Mamdani Announces Murals to Commemorate World Cup 

Published by Jenni Sidey

The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition’s 96-year history, has swept North America. Star players like Norway’s Erling Haaland, England’s Harry Kane, France’s Kylian Mbappe, and Argentina’s Lionel Messi have turned in dramatic performances. Americans have fallen in love with visiting teams and foreign visitors have become enamored, of all things, with American-size food portions and ranch dressing.  Now, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced that this historic moment will be memorialized in New York with a set of 12 murals appearing throughout all five of the city’s boroughs, each designed by a local artist.  Related Articles The initiative is a project of the Groundswell Community Mural Project, the Department of Parks & Recreation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Department of Youth and Community Development. New Yorkers can pitch in on “community paint days” at each site, starting today, July 14, when Mamdani and Groundswell will kick off the initiative at the Montbellier Park bleacher wall at Eastgate Plaza and Springfield Boulevard in …

Taylor Swift has paid New York City back for her mega MSG wedding, Mamdani says

Taylor Swift has paid New York City back for her mega MSG wedding, Mamdani says

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revealed that Taylor Swift has “already” paid the city for costs incurred by her high-profile but secretive wedding at Madison Square Garden. The 36-year-old pop superstar wed NFL player Travis Kelce, also 36, at the famed Manhattan venue on July 3. During a televised press conference Friday, Mamdani was asked whether Swift would be paying back the city for “police overtime” incurred due to the security required for the event. The mayor responded: “Taylor Swift will be paying, has paid already, the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000 for that event and for the response to that event.” He added: “That was a permit that was finalized in just the days before the event itself.” Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift have paid New York City back for their wedding, according to Mayor …

Italian Americans Say Mamdani Tweet About Columbus Shows ‘Hatred’

Italian Americans Say Mamdani Tweet About Columbus Shows ‘Hatred’

Published by Jenni Sidey

American conservatives are once again up in arms about a six-year-old tweet by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected last year as New York’s mayor. It was June 2020, and a wave of iconoclasm was sweeping the United States. Minneapolis police had murdered George Floyd, an African American man, the month before, and protesters argued that monuments to Confederate soldiers and leaders, slaveholders, and similar figures didn’t just mark important parts of American history, but rather promoted their white supremacist views. Related Articles Prominent in this discussion were monuments to Italy’s Christopher Columbus, who, as the Progressive Magazine put it in 2017, “engaged in enslavement, outright theft and the genocide of this hemisphere’s indigenous peoples.” A BBC discussion of his legacy points out that he was “exceptionally cruel” and that “his behaviour became so barbaric that the Spanish authorities actually intervened and Columbus was eventually arrested.” Among those calling for the removal of monuments to Columbus was Mamdani, then just a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who had campaigned for Palestinian City Council candidate …