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Mexican politician gunned down at event
Mexican politician gunned down at event An attack on a political event in Mexico, where a mayoral candidate and three others were killed, is the latest in an uptick in political violence in the country. 01:52 - Source: CNN Vertical World News 16 videos Mexican politician gunned down at event An attack on a political event in Mexico, where a mayoral candidate and three others were killed, is the latest in an uptick in political violence in the country. 01:52 - Source: CNN Palestinians desperate for food rush US-backed aid site Scores of people rushed over fencing and through barricades in southern Gaza on the first day a US-Israeli-backed aid site was opened. CNN's Jeremy Diamond explains the desperate humanitarian situation that remains in the region. 01:22 - Source: CNN Journalists spit on at Jerusalem Day flag march Ultra-nationalist Israeli Jews chanted anti-Arab slogans as they marched through Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day. CNN's Oren Liebermann describes heavy police presence on the ground. Members of the crowd were seen spitting on journalists, including a CNN producer. 01:50 - Source: CNN Finland's president responds to Russian military activity along border CNN's Erin Burnett speaks with Finland's President Alexander Stubb about his country ramping up its military to deter potential Russian aggression. 02:16 - Source: CNN King Charles stresses Canada's 'self determination' amid pressure from US King Charles III delivered the ceremonial Speech from the Throne in the Canadian Senate. The address marks only the second time in Canadian history that the reigning sovereign has opened parliament, and the third time that the British monarch has delivered the address. 00:42 - Source: CNN Huge ship refloated after nearly crashing into house A larger container ship has been refloated after nearly crashing into a house in Norway. According to local police, the navigator had fallen asleep at the helm. 00:42 - Source: CNN Vehicle plows into crowd in Liverpool Police in the United Kingdom say a man has been arrested after a car plowed into Liverpool fans celebrating during the soccer club's Premier League trophy parade. 01:14 - Source: CNN Iran's Foreign Ministry on progress of Iran-US talks Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei gave an exclusive interview to CNN's Fred Pleitgen on the progress of continuing nuclear talks with the US. Baqaei told CNN that any attempt by the Trump administration to 'deprive' Iranians of their right to nuclear energy would be 'very problematic'. But he also said that there were many ways to come to a compromise. Iran and the United States concluded a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday. 01:16 - Source: CNN Video of President Macron's wife 'pushing' him goes viral A video of French President Macron's wife pushing him as they disembarked a flight has caught the attention of Russian trolls after going viral. While Macron himself tried to downplay the video saying it merely showed a couple 'bickering,' it's not the first time Russian troll accounts and state media outlets have tried to use videos of the French president to spread disinformation. CNN's Saskya Vandoorne has more. 01:35 - Source: CNN Israeli strikes were one of this hostage's biggest fears in captivity An Israeli soldier released by Hamas during a ceasefire-hostage deal has said one of her biggest fears during captivity were strikes carried out by Israel. It's 'what endangered me more than anything,' Na'ama Levy said. The former hostage's comments came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that defeating Israel's enemies is the 'supreme objective' and more important than securing the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza. 00:57 - Source: CNN Nine of this doctor's children killed in Gaza Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home when she went to work in the emergency room at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the hospital, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. They were Dr. Najjar's own children, killed in an Israeli strike on her home. The bodies of two more of her children – a 7-month-old and a 12-year-old who authorities presume to be dead – remain missing. 02:03 - Source: CNN Harvard foreign student describes atmosphere of 'pure panic' CNN spoke to 20-year-old Abdullah Shahid Sial, a rising junior and student body co-president at Harvard University, about his reaction to the Trump administration's decision to revoke the university's ability to enroll international students. A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's ban on Friday, after the nation's oldest and wealthiest college filed a suit in federal court. 01:29 - Source: CNN This Indian YouTuber is accused of spying An Indian travel vlogger has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Pakistan just days after tensions soared between the two longtime rival nations following an attack last month that left 26 tourists dead in India-administered Kashmir. Police say that 'in the pursuit of views, followers, and viral content, she fell into a trap.' 01:46 - Source: CNN See what Gaza's hotels looked like before the war When Donald Trump announced his plans to turn war-torn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East," many Palestinians were angered. CNN spoke to two hoteliers, who explained what life was like before the war and their hopes for the future. 01:51 - Source: CNN Mountaineers scaled Mt. Everest in less than a week Mountaineers usually spend weeks or months acclimating to high altitudes before ascending Mt. Everest. But one group accomplished the feat in less than a week after using an anesthetic gas that critics warn could be dangerous. 01:40 - Source: CNN See moment OceanGate team noticed something wrong Newly released video shows OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush's wife, Wendy Rush, who was working on the communications and tracking team, notice the sound of a 'bang' while monitoring the submersible. The Titan submersible imploded on June 18, 2023, killing all five passengers on board. 00:49 - Source: CNN
CNN
21-05-2025
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A Mexican mayoral candidate was gunned down in front of supporters. It's part of a trend
An attack on a political event in Mexico, where a mayoral candidate and three others were killed, is the latest in an uptick in political violence in the country.
New York Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Mayoral Campaign Captures a Cool Crowd
To be young and online in New York is to be aware of a set of social media cool kids — artists, podcasters, writers, models, folks about town — with the power to define what's in, and what isn't. Typically, these people anoint influencers, restaurants, bars, literary magazines and other cultural institutions, permitting them entry into a glossy universe of good taste. Now they've set their sights on a mayoral candidate. In the past three months, Zohran Mamdani, the upstart Democratic Socialist mayoral hopeful, has appeared onstage at Brooklyn Steel to speak to a sold-out concert by MJ Lenderman, the Pitchfork-approved singer-songwriter; he has tagged along with the ubiquitous TikTok host Kareem Rahma for his show 'Keep the Meter Running'; he has accompanied the leftist personality Hasan Piker on his wildly popular streaming show; and he has posed at campaign events with figures of the Brooklyn cultural elite including the millennial celebrity chef supreme Alison Roman and Ella Emhoff, the fashion-darling stepdaughter of former Vice President Kamala Harris. The event that best summed up the embrace of Mr. Mamdani's campaign by New York City's young microinfluencers, though, is one that took place in March at an East Village club. It came about with the help of the publicist Kaitlin Phillips, who has a roster of clients that includes A24, Prada and the Substack phenom Emily Sundberg. Her name is synonymous with the world of Lower Manhattan hype and image making: fashionable, online, in the know. Yet when the campaign found out in February that Ms. Phillips wanted to offer her services gratis, they had never heard of her. Andrew Epstein, the Mamdani campaign's communications director, started reading around about Ms. Phillips and was surprised that she wanted to help. 'It's a symbol of our ability to reach into networks far beyond the expected ones,' he said. A few weeks later, after some well-placed calls to her friends and to the reporters in her Rolodex, Ms. Phillips helped organize the only fund-raiser of the mayoral race to appear in all three of Vanity Fair, Curbed and Feed Me, Ms. Sundberg's newsletter, which referred to the event as 'the hottest party in New York this weekend.' (Ms. Sundberg has also mentioned the mayoral campaign of Scott Stringer.) The hosts included the actress Rowan Blanchard, the left-wing podcasters of Chapo Trap House and the owners of the artsy Lower East Side boutique Café Forgot — a cross section of celebrities, niche media figures and Lower Manhattan trendsetters devised to draw out other cliquish culture makers. It took place the same evening as the Oscars, selling out the venue, the East Village hot spot Night Club 101 (tickets ranged from $20 to $250), and sending a line down the sidewalk. In other words, it was a genuine clout bomb: a marketing strategy that involves gathering as many internet-famous figures in one setting as possible to push a product — or in this case, a political candidate. The fund-raiser took in more than $22,000, according to Mr. Epstein. 'It was a coalition of cultural figures who are banding together to say, 'When it comes down to electoral politics, we have a common interest,'' said Aria Dean, 31, an artist and writer who was one of the organizers. Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo remains the faraway favorite in the Democratic primary polls. But Mr. Mamdani's precipitous rise to second place has been helped along by a savvy use of social media to communicate his easy-to-digest policies around rent (he wants to freeze it for rent-stabilized apartments) and transportation (he thinks the city's buses should be free to ride). His candidacy has also been embraced and even shaped by a hip social media class that wields not official endorsements, but something more nebulous and fickle: a social stamp of approval. It raises a question, though: Does this kind of influence actually move the needle in a mayoral election? It wasn't so long ago that a Democratic politician who surrounded herself with celebrities and appeared on podcasts and in TikTok shows lost the White House. But Mr. Mamdani, a New York State assemblyman who has represented a western slice of Queens since 2021, is young, fluent in the language of the internet and — most important, his supporters say — championing policies that many find appealing. Mr. Mamdani's online political content has three essential ingredients, said Chi Ossé, the only Gen Z member of the City Council: 'It has to be entertaining, it has to be concise and it has to be excellent policy.' Mr. Ossé, 27, is himself a student of combining pithy social media appearances with easy-to-explain progressive policies — mostly notably his FARE Act, which passed real estate broker fees on to landlords. Mr. Ossé announced his endorsement of the Mamdani campaign in April by recording a video with the assemblyman outside the internet-infamous intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn. 'He's captured the hearts and minds and imaginations of young people,' said Mr. Rahma, 38, the 'Keep the Meter Running' host. 'I think he's doing all of the right things that a mayoral candidate needs to do in a city that feels overwhelmingly young and overwhelmingly online.' It's now de rigueur for politicians to cultivate cultural influencers — think just of this past presidential election, in which President Trump made the rounds on manosphere podcasts, and Ms. Harris sat down with the 'Call Her Daddy' host Alex Cooper. Of course, Mr. Mamdani is seeking local office, so it's not especially unusual that he is engaging with the micro-celebrities of New York, people who appear meaningfully embedded in a version of the city that young people experience — or want to experience. It's a contrast with the high-roller act of Mayor Eric Adams, whose attempts to be a cool-guy mayor include dining at wallet-busting restaurants and passing late nights at the members-only club Zero Bond. Not unlike Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during her underdog 2018 primary race, Mr. Mamdani says he is trying to broaden the group of people who feel connected to electoral politics. 'Ultimately we don't just want to talk to New Yorkers who think of themselves as political and engaged with politics with a capital P,' Mr. Mamdani said in an interview. But Mr. Epstein, the communications director, said these tastemakers and cloutmeisters were not cultivated as part of a grand strategy on the part of his campaign. Instead, he said, the candidate's ascension among the city's young and niche-famous hobnobbers largely reflects a willingness to say yes to any opportunity to get his message in front of voters. It started with a town hall at a church in Brooklyn Heights in December, when Mr. Mamdani was still polling in the single digits. Mr. Epstein asked the crowd for ideas: Which influencers should they be engaging with? Sitting in the audience was Cassie Willson, a 29-year-old comedian and content creator. 'I had this moment of, that's me, I'm literally an influencer,' said Ms. Willson, who approached Mr. Epstein after the event. The pair agreed to collaborate on a lighthearted video, which Ms. Willson published to her social channels. It's since racked up more than half a million views on TikTok and Instagram. Next came a live interview at the Bell House with Mary Beth Barone, 33, a comedian and actress who has a running series on Instagram called 'Politics for Hot People.' Ms. Barone, who said she had been considering her own run for mayor because she was so fed up with Mr. Adams, learned about Mr. Mamdani from a friend over a meal at Cafe Mogador in Williamsburg. Ms. Barone said she had never voted in a mayoral primary before, but was drawn to the simplicity of Mr. Mamdani's policy proposals and the effectiveness of his presentation. 'It was about educating myself and sharing it with my audience,' she said. And it doesn't hurt that Mr. Mamdani's screen presence — smiley, cheerful, game and witty — is a perfect fit for the vertical screen. That such a straightforwardly earnest candidate would emerge as a favorite of the downtown world may seem unlikely: This set has been characterized as everything from reactionary to right-wing, and above all, governed by a certain ironic sensibility. But according to Ms. Dean, the artist, the embrace of Mr. Mamdani reflects instead a group of people who have been disillusioned with liberal politics since the unsuccessful 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns of Senator Bernie Sanders. 'For people in a cultural world with a lot of posturing, there hasn't been an outlet for those left energies,' she said. And while some on social media have criticized Mr. Mamdani's embrace of the online 'it' crowd as a limited constituency, the veteran New York Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said there was really no downside — especially for a young, ambitious politician with many campaigns ahead of him. 'Whether he wins this time or not he'll be back with this constituency,' Mr. Sheinkopf said. 'By doing what he's doing, he's consolidating the left. That's why the other candidates have not been able to gain traction. He's fresh, and they're tired.' As the June 24 Democratic primary rapidly approaches, Mr. Mamdani campaign says it is continuing its large-scale canvassing and door-knocking efforts throughout the five boroughs — not just among the tote bag set. 'I would be worried if this was the entirety of our outreach strategy,' Mr. Mamdani said, 'but this is just a small part of it.'
CTV News
13-05-2025
- Politics
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London mayoral candidate violated Elections Act: auditor
London mayoral candidate violated Elections Act: auditor Former London mayoral candidate Khalil Ramal could soon have his campaign finances at the centre of potential legal action. CTV`s Daryl Newcombe explains.
CNN
12-05-2025
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Mexican mayoral candidate gunned down during live broadcast of campaign rally
What began as a festive campaign march quickly turned into a scene of terror in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Sunday night when a mayoral candidate was gunned down alongside three other people. A Facebook live stream captured the horror of that day. It showed Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez greeting residents as she paraded through the streets of Texistepec, surrounded by a caravan of supporters. The crowd was seen smiling and chanting before gunfire suddenly rang out off camera, drowning out their cheers. About 20 gunshots were heard in the video, which was still available on Lara's Facebook page the following day. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the attack during her morning press conference on Monday and said she had no information yet about the motive. She added that her government is in coordination with Veracruz state officials and offered federal support if necessary, including contact with the state attorney general's office. 'We're coordinating, particularly with the Secretary of Security, and with all the support needed during this electoral period from Veracruz and Durango,' she said, referring to the upcoming June 1 elections in the two states. The mayoral candidate, a member of Sheinbaum's ruling Morena party, was among four people killed in the shooting, according to the state attorney general's office. Another three people were wounded. Authorities are still investigating the matter and are promising justice. 'No position or office is worth a person's life,' Veracruz Governor Rocío Nahle said on X. 'We will find those responsible for this cowardly murder of the Morena candidate and supporters in Texistepec.' CNN has reached out to Morena, the prosecutor's office and the Texistepec city council for more information. Attacks on political candidates are common during election cycles in Mexico. Last year, the country saw a record number of victims from political-criminal violence, with Data Cívica, a human rights organization, reporting 661 attacks on people and facilities. Many of the victims either held or were running for municipal-level positions. In May 2024, a mayoral candidate was killed during a campaign stop in the southern state of Guerrero, in a shooting that was captured on video. Days later, the mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state was shot dead as she was walking from a gym back to her house with her bodyguard. In October, the mayor of Guerrero's capital Chilpancingo was killed less than a week after taking office.
