For most of the past four decades, the Democratic Socialists of America occupied the outermost edge of American political life. Founded in 1982 through the merger of two older left-wing organizations, the group spent its first 30 years as a marginal advocacy outfit with fewer members than many mid-sized city council races attract in voter turnout. Its membership hovered around 6,000. Its influence on national politics was negligible. Its place in Democratic Party councils was nonexistent.
American forces eliminated a senior ISIS leader in a precision airstrike last week, marking another victory in the ongoing fight against the terrorist organization that once terrorized vast swaths of the Middle East.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's slate of democratic socialist candidates toppled three incumbent House Democrats in Tuesday's congressional primaries, drawing warnings from party members about the direction of the Democratic Party heading into November's midterm elections.
A federal judge in San Francisco late Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests at immigration courthouses, handing a significant legal setback to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push.
A federal judge who admitted she would only renounce her foreign citizenship "if required by law" has now blocked the Trump administration from verifying whether voters are actually American citizens.
The U.S. sanctioned five Cuban state entities Tuesday, targeting the military-controlled conglomerate that controls nearly 40 percent of the island's economy.
