JPMorgan Boss Explains Why Bank Isn’t Donating To Trump Ballroom: ‘We Have An Issue, OK?’

HuffPost
Lee Moran
Thu, November 6, 2025

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, on Wednesday explained why the country’s largest bank hasn’t — and won’t — be donating to the construction of President Donald Trump’s lavish new $300 million White House ballroom.

Federal judge orders Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits in November

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MICHAEL CASEY
November 6, 2025

A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration Thursday to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November, a decision that the administration promptly appealed.

Zohran Is Taking Bernie’s Movement Into the Future

JACOBIN

By Ben Burgis

Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral victory marks a new chapter for democratic socialism in America. Like Bernie Sanders before him, he’s shown that relentless focus on a unifying message of economic justice can win against establishment sabotage.

None of it worked. The months of smears. The months of sabotage from the Democratic establishment. The absurd accusations of antisemitism. The even more absurd insinuations that Zohran Mamdani is a secret Islamic fundamentalist plotting to impose Sharia law on the Big Apple.

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Says He Has Reached Out to Zohran Mamdani

The banking giant’s C.E.O. said he wanted to keep lines of communication open with the mayor-elect of New York

By Lauren Hirsch

Nov. 5, 2025

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, called Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday morning, the latest example of a New York City business leader’s seeking to build a bridge with the next mayor.

Democrats win big on Election Night in key races

Published Tue, Nov 4 2025
Dan Mangan

Key Points

• Democrats who won included Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim and self-described democratic socialist who will become the next mayor of New York City.
• In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill is projected to become the next governor, and in Virginia, Abigail Spanberger will become the state’s first female governor.
• California voters passed Prop 50, a measure that allows a new map for U.S. House districts that favors Democrats.
• In Pennsylvania, voters kept three incumbent Democrats on the state Supreme Court, preserving their party’s 5-2 majority.

‘Time for a new era’: hope swells in New York as Zohran Mamdani makes history

Zohran Mamdani
Supporters and high-profile New York Democrats gathered in Brooklyn to celebrate New York’s first Muslim mayor
Anna Betts in New York

Wed 5 Nov 2025 06.16 GMT

At Zohran Mamdani’s election night party in downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday night, hundreds of his supporters erupted in cheers and applause as the democratic socialist from Queens was elected the next mayor of New York City.

What Trade War? China’s Export Juggernaut Marches On

As President Trump has imposed steep tariffs on China,

 American importers are buying much less.

By Agnes Chang and Daisuke Wakabayashi 

Nov. 3, 2025

Trump tells military to prepare for 'action' against Islamist militants in Nigeria

Donald Trump says he would also cut all aid to Nigeria

9 hours ago

Joseph Winter

US President Donald Trump has ordered the military to prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist militant groups, accusing the government of failing to protect Christians. Trump did not say which killings he was referring to, but claims of a genocide against Nigeria's Christians have been circulating in recent weeks and months in some right-wing US circles.

N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race: Early Voting Ends With More Than 735,000 Ballots Cast

Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa traveled across the boroughs to close out the final weekend of the campaign, as New Yorkers headed out to vote in droves.

Nov. 2, 2025

Updated 8:18 p.m. ET

Benjamin Oreskes and Matthew Haag

Here’s the latest.

New York City’s candidates for mayor fanned out across the city on Sunday, delivering closing messages at churches and rallies and urging supporters to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting. Polls are now closed, but will be open again on Tuesday, Election Day, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Mamdani Has a Point About Rent Control

In an interview, the candidate argued that the policy is essential to get voters on board with pro-housing reforms

By Rogé Karma

November 2, 2025

Few policies disgust academic economists quite like rent control. In the 1970s, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck famously described it as the “most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.” In a 2012 poll of prominent economists, just 2 percent said that rent-control laws have had “a positive impact” on the “amount and quality of broadly affordable rental housing in cities that have used them.” (The Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler sarcastically proposed a follow-up survey question: “Does the sun revolve around the earth?”)

Voters express frustration with Trump’s handling of economy, NBC News poll shows

Politics
Published Sun, Nov 2 2025
Lillian Rizzo@LilliannnnWATCH LIVE

Key Points

• In a recent NBC News poll, respondents vented frustration with President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy.
• In a poll taken in late October, 66% of respondents said Trump had fallen short of expectations regarding inflation and the cost of living.
• Overall, 63% said the administration had also fallen short of expectations on handling the economy.

NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft Finds a Blazing Wall of Fire at the Edge of the Solar System

This finding reshapes our understanding of the Sun’s outermost frontier and what lies beyond it

Published on November 2, 2025

Written by Lydia Amazouz| Credit: NASA

For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing into the mysterious boundary where our solar system ends and interstellar space begins. Recently, scientists uncovered new insights from their data — including the discovery of a searing “wall” reaching tens of thousands of degrees Kelvin.

The universe is not and could never be a simulation, study finds

New research shows reality transcends computation, proving the universe cannot be simulated by any computer.

Written By: Joseph Shavit/

Edited By: Joshua Shavit

Published Nov 1, 2025 4:51 AM PDT

Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons

The Atlantic
Opinion by Tom Nichol

Just before heading to his meetings with the leader of China, the president of the United States issued some comments about nuclear weapons, or “nuclear,” as he tends to call them. He wants to resume nuclear bomb tests, something no nuclear state except North Korea has done since the last century. But his reasoning is a bit confused: In the space of one short announcement, he managed to get a lot wrong, which is worrisome, because he’s the only person in America who has the authority to order the use of nuclear arms.

From Texas to Tennessee, Even Trump Country Is Marching Against Trump

October 25, 2025
A new Harvard study shows that 2025 protests are likely the most geographically widespread in US history.
Isabela Dias

Reporter

It’s been a week since an estimated 7 million people across 50 US states and the District of Columbia—and countless others all over the world—took part in the “No Kings” protests to speak up against the Trump administration’s policies and his leadership’s slide into authoritarianism.

'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Interview by Kristina Killgrove

published October 20, 2025

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who made it out and left records. And that shocked me."

Why China is winning the trade war

Leaders | Sino-US relations
It has rebuffed America and rewritten the norms of global commerce
Oct 23rd 2025

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are due to meet in South Korea next week. However, it is uncertain whether they actually will. Such is the shocking state of the world’s most important relationship. For weeks, America and China have been lashing out at each other. America has tightened tech-export restrictions and threatened higher tariffs; China has wielded sanctions and restrictions on rare earths. The two sides communicate poorly. In the White House there is a belief that America has the upper hand in this test of nerves and pain-tolerance. Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, says China is “weak”. But the reality is different.

U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Latin America, a Major Escalation

The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people.

By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt

Reporting from Washington

Published Oct. 24, 2025

Updated Oct. 25, 2025, 12:37 a.m. ET

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford as well as its accompanying warships and attack planes to waters off Latin America, the Pentagon said on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of military might in the region.