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With two and a half weeks before Election Day in New York City, Zohran Mamdani is maintaining his front-runner status while independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa struggle to chip away at his support. Ahead of the race’s first of two general-election debates, Mamdani achieved a significant milestone as he hit 50 percent in a poll for the very first time in the race. In a Fox News poll released Thursday, Mamdani received 52 percent from likely voters, followed by Cuomo with 28 percent and Sliwa with 14 percent. Among registered voters, Mamdani dipped slightly to 49...

The seeds of Andrew's downfall were sown many years ago, when he began a friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s. Andrew once counted both Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell as friends, and the trio were seen on holiday together at Donald Trump's Mar-a-lago club in Florida in 2000. In the same year, Epstein and Maxwell attended a party at Buckingham Palace held to mark birthdays including the prince's 40th. Flight records show the then-Duke flew on Epstein's private plane in May 2000. In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison for soliciting a minor...

... Barack Obama had the Clifornia Democratic Convention spellbound for 23 minutes as he appeared with state Majority Leader Gloria Romero, State Assembly Majority Leader Karen Bass, and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and urged them and all Californians to "turn the page for hope" and to write the next chapter in history...