New York mayor’s remarks at city hall to come just hours before Trump is set to deliver address at Mount Rushmore

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, is expected to deliver a speech on Friday morning to mark America’s 250th birthday.

The address, scheduled to begin at 10am local time and streamed live, will be delivered from behind George Washington’s desk in New York city hall. Mamdani will be surrounded by recently naturalized citizens.

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Digital artists from Maa-speaking peoples including the Maasai and Samburu are gaining popularity in Kenya with a blend of traditional and modern sounds

As the sun sets, a goat’s leg sizzles on the fire in Kenya’s Mau Forest, a bumpy three-hour drive from the nearest Tarmac road. “Nowadays, Maasai shoot with cameras, not spears,” the manager says as he watches a Maasai musician looking at himself on a smartphone screen.

Julius Kesier, alias Kamurar Maasai, a musician and influential community mentor, is being filmed at his manyatta settlement. The spear he carries is purely for show.

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With a decision about his future looming, Fernando Alonso has explained where Aston Martin's upcoming upgrade package will factor into his choice.

With Max Verstappen being linked to McLaren, Oscar Piastri has expressed his confidence in fulfilling his contract with the team.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the Supreme Court, the private jet, and AI on the TV.

JOSEPH: I used to cover court cases and judge’s opinions a lot more back at Motherboard. Sometimes it was in cases I broke news in, like that time the FBI secretly ran a dark web child abuse website. Other times it is big decisions that have wider impacts on privacy, surveillance, and government power. 

Here’s big news regarding the latter sort of decision. I first saw news of it on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s blog. As it says at the start: “You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States.”

Massaal rukt Gen Z uit naar de bioscoop voor de horrorfilm Backrooms. Het doet Sarah Meuleman denken aan The Matrix, de film die zo van invloed was op haar generatie. Vergelijk beide nachtmerries, en zie hoe fundamenteel de angst in 25 jaar verschoven is.

Voor deze serie sturen lezers een foto in van hun ouders. Deze keer stuurde Harry Maas (1953) een foto van zijn moeder Tiny Maas-Bannenberg (1926-2018) en vader Wim Maas (1921-2000).

Thomas Hertog deed jarenlang onderzoek naar het ontstaan van het heelal met Stephen Hawking. Het groeide uit tot een hechte vriendschap, waarin ze samen “de oude grote…

Op dinsdag 16 juni zijn drie mannen uit Rotterdam aangehouden door de Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst (FIOD) op verdenking van het witwassen van ruim 100 miljoen euro. De mannen zijn 53, 51 en 41 jaar oud.

Op dinsdag 16 juni zijn drie mannen uit Rotterdam aangehouden door de Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst (FIOD) op verdenking van het witwassen van ruim 100 miljoen euro. De mannen zijn 53, 51 en 41 jaar oud.