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Amir Hamja Attorney General Letitia James, center, arrives for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's swearing-in ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in New York. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times via AP, Pool) NEW YORK (AP) — Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani took his midnight oath of office on a centuries-old Quran, marking the first…

(RNS) — If 2025 felt like a particularly chaotic year for religion news, just wait until 2026. Some of the coming cacophony will be an extension of trends that emerged this year: the first full year of Leo’s papacy, the continued religious pushback to President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, the…

On a windy winter morning in New York, Ryan Seacrest and Rita Ora pose for photos in front of the freshly revealed New Year’s Eve Ball. The decorated ball, perched 25 stories high atop One Times Square, is the largest to date (fitted with 5,280 Waterford crystals and LED pucks).…

Zohran Mamdani was a trailblazing candidate whom many in his city of 8 million  - some with hope, some with trepidation - expect to be a disruptive New York mayor. The democratic socialist’s plans for his first day in office on Thursday nod to his politics and priorities, without straying…

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Marwa Janini was 10 years old and growing up in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, 2001. In the fallout of the Al Qaeda terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people and destroyed the World Trade Center’s twin towers, she remembers the beginning of intense surveillance, and fear in the Muslim and…

'We were in our first anatomy class together and we met over a cadaver': Dr. Graham Elder and his U.S. writing partner, Dr. Laura Cody, are already under contract for a sequel Dr. Graham Elder, a Sault orthopaedic surgeon, has written many medical journal articles in his career. However, his…

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In January, 2028 ATH Carter Charapata received his first offer from Syracuse and followed that up with his first visit to Central New York in March for spring practice. The Orange staff has continued to be in touch ever since, and welcomed Charapata back to campus when they hosted Boston…

What’s your message to the fans who are tired of losing? It’s a question that every losing coach gets asked at some point, especially the ones at programs that have gone through prolonged stretches of losing. Some handle it better than others. Joe Judge, for example, went on an 11-minute…