The 2025 New York City mayor’s race is unusually volatile and will have major consequences for the nation’s largest city. As a Democratic incumbent seeking a second term, Mayor Eric Adams would not typically face a serious primary challenge and would be heavily favored in the general election. But this year is different. Mr. Adams […] More
Ms. Haaland, one of the first former cabinet officials in the Biden administration to announce a run for office, would be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of a state.Deb Haaland, the former secretary of the Interior who was the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet, on Tuesday announced a bid for governor of New Mexico.Ms. Haaland, a Democrat, previously served as a congresswoman from the state. She is widely seen as a favorite to succeed Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is not running again in 2026 because of term limits.Ms. Haaland, 64, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, would be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of a state. Her campaign described her as a “35th generation” New Mexican.She is one of the first top alumni of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s administration to announce a run for office since Democrats lost power.This article will be updated. More
At Coach and Khaite, the director, who died last month, shaped the vibe.Outside the Coach show on Monday, a woman was marching around topless on Park Avenue. Her semi-nudity was a little startling, given the snow still piled on the sidewalks, but it went with the animal rights sign she was holding while shouting: “Coach leather kills! Coach leather kills!” These days you have to be pretty extreme to get people’s attention.Maybe that’s why Stuart Vevers, the creative director of Coach, and Catherine Holstein of Khaite said they were thinking about David Lynch, the master of the surreal and the extreme who died last month, when putting together their collections. Well, that and the fact that fashion loves a bit of cinematic inspiration. Retrospectives of Mr. Lynch’s most striking imagery have been ubiquitous. Technicolor normalcy taken to an absurd, terrifying length is apropos at the moment.Not that the results of either collection were that obviously Lynchian. But the shows did offer the sense that there was something unsettling lurking just under the leather. And each of them had a lot of leather.That the shows took place in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory was a coincidence, though Mr. Lynch might say there is no such thing.Ms. Holstein went very literally dark, setting her collection in a black circle that looked like an alien landing site encompassed by a circular runway/yellow brick road. (In a preview, she said that “The Wizard of Oz” was Mr. Lynch’s favorite movie, and she threw in some other movie citations, including Merchant Ivory and the costume designer Edith Head, for good measure). Out paraded models in a lot of black with the occasional shot of blood red, though it was unclear where everything was leading. Not to the Emerald City. Maybe “Twin Peaks.” Or “Mulholland Drive.”At Khaite, Catherine Holstein showed her runway collection in a circle that looked like an alien landing site.Hanna Tveite/KhaiteWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
The South Carolina Republican used her floor privileges to lodge shocking accusations against her former fiancé and three other men.Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican who in recent weeks has floated a run for governor, on Monday night accused her former fiancé and three other men of having drugged and raped her and other women, and of filming and taking lewd photographs of women and underage girls without their consent.In a stunningly graphic speech on the House floor that had little precedent, Ms. Mace said the men, whom she named and displayed photographs of on a placard where lawmakers more typically display charts and graphs on policy issues, were involved in the “premeditated, calculated exploitation of innocent women and girls in my district.”“You’ve booked yourself a one-way ticket to hell,” she said, referring to the men directly at one point in a speech that lasted close to an hour. “It is nonstop. There are no connections. So I and all of your victims can watch you rot into eternity.”On the floor of the House, Ms. Mace was protected by the speech and debate clause, even as she accused the men of repeatedly assaulting incapacitated women and filming it. The clause provides lawmakers immunity from criminal prosecutions or civil suits, such as for slander, when they are acting “within the legislative sphere.” Ms. Mace offered no evidence to support the accusations, although she said she had plenty of such material.She refused to answer any follow-up questions from reporters outside the Capitol on Monday night and did not respond to a separate request to provide corroboration. The New York Times has not independently verified any of the allegations.In a statement not long after Ms. Mace finished speaking, Patrick Bryant, the former fiancé whom she accused by name, denied her account.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
Paul Coulter conducts an experiment.Jump to: Today’s Theme | Tricky CluesTUESDAY PUZZLE — One of my goals for this year is to construct a crossword puzzle. I’m aware that most elements of puzzle making can be learned by rote, but it worries me that there’s no study guide for imagination. Judging by the creativity and originality of the puzzles that come across my desk each week — including today’s crossword, constructed by Paul Coulter — I’m in need of a crash course.Mr. Coulter’s grid plays with a language pattern so subtle that I would never have thought to point it out, and uncovering that code was tremendously satisfying. If you haven’t cracked it yet, I hope that the body of this column illuminates things for you.Today’s ThemeThe revealer at 35-Across reads as follows: [Like some harmony … or a hint to 17-, 30-, 47- and 59-Across]. The answer is TWO-PART — music theory heads rise up — and refers to the fact that each of today’s themed entries is made up of two body parts.The [Emoji that means “I’m crazy about you!”] (17A) is the HEART EYES emoji, as in heart plus eyes. Another word for a [Harmonica] (30A) is a MOUTH ORGAN, made of mouth and organ (technically a wider category that includes the heart, but I’ll allow it).Incidentally, the harmonica featured prominently in two movies I watched recently, one old and one new: It was a central plot point in “Once Upon a Time in the West” and appeared with Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown,” the recent Bob Dylan biopic. Who knew an instrument could be so, uh, instrumental?We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
The devices found during construction work were practice bombs, which can be harmful. Officials said there could be more.More than 150 bombs from World War II have been found under a children’s playground in northern England, with concerns that more may remain, officials said.The bombs were discovered as a construction project was underway to renovate the Scotts Park playground in Wooler, a small town in Northumberland, England, that is near the border with Scotland. BBC reported that workers had found a “suspicious object” on Jan. 14 while digging foundations. It turned out to be a practice bomb, or a nonexplosive bomb that is used for training but can still be harmful.The Wooler Parish Council enlisted Brimstone Site Investigations, a company that specializes in unexploded ordnance, to investigate the site, council officials said in a news release.Brimstone arrived on Jan. 23 for what was supposed to be a two-day survey, “but it soon became apparent that the scale of the problem was far greater than anyone had anticipated,” the parish council wrote.On the first day, Brimstone identified an additional 65 practice bombs, each weighing 10 pounds, as well as smoke cartridges.On the second day of work at the site, Brimstone recovered an additional 90 practice bombs and safely removed them to a designated storage area, the council wrote.Practice bombs that were discovered at Scotts Park playground.Mark MatherThe BBC reported that the Ministry of Defense had ordered a full survey of the site.Though the bombs are practice bombs, “they do still carry a charge” and require removal by specialists, the parish council’s release said, adding, “These have been found with their fuse and contents still intact — and the detonator burster and smoke filling in particular can still be potentially hazardous.”A spokesperson for the Northumberland County Council called the discovery “unexpected.”Mark Mather, an official in Wooler, told the BBC that about a third of the park had been cleared and it was possible there were more bombs.“It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs,” Mr. Mather said.Mr. Mather said that Wooler had been a training center for the Home Guard, a volunteer citizen militia considered the last line of defense against the Germans during World War II.“After the war, it looked like they just buried all the ordnance in one of the pits,” Mr. Mather said.The Ministry of Defense said that a team had visited the site twice in January, the BBC reported, but it did not offer further details.The Wooler Parish Council said it hoped contractors could resume work in April once the site had been declared safe.Brimstone, the Ministry of Defense, Mr. Mather, the Wooler Parish Council and the Northumberland County Council did not immediately respond to requests for comment. More
A defense lawyer for Mayor Eric Adams, Alex Spiro, celebrated the Justice Department’s push to drop federal corruption charges against the mayor on Monday, saying that the government’s case had relied on “fanfare and sensational claims” but little evidence.But such statements were at odds with the reasoning given by the Justice Department official who ordered the dismissal. That official, Emil Bove, wrote that the decision had been made “without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based.” Instead, he said, it was driven by the indictment’s proximity to the upcoming mayoral election and what he said was its interference with Mr. Adams’s ability to aid in Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown.The assertions of the mayor’s innocence also conflicted with evidence that federal prosecutors in Manhattan described when they indicted him last September, and in filings since. They had detailed luxury travel arrangements worth more than $100,000 — to India, France, China, Ghana and elsewhere — they said Mr. Adams had accepted, primarily from Turkish Airlines, in exchange for taking official action.Mr. Adams, a Democrat who is running for re-election, was indicted on five counts of bribery conspiracy, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Prosecutors accused him of helping fast-track the approval of a new high-rise Turkish Consulate in Manhattan despite safety concerns, in exchange for unlawful donations and free and heavily discounted luxury travel.Prosecutors quoted text messages about these dealings involving an Adams aide who had helped to arrange that travel and was cooperating with the investigation. And they cited Mr. Adams’s personal communications with city Fire Department officials who they said he had pressured to sign off on the consulate building, and then with a Turkish official who had helped arrange for the gifts of his luxury travel.Prosecutors who brought the charges against Mr. Adams said last month that they had continued to “uncover additional criminal conduct” by the mayor.Jefferson Siegel for The New York TimesMr. Adams forwarded the Turkish consul general, who had helped arrange for his travel, a note from the city’s fire commissioner: “Letter being drafted now. Everything should be good to go Monday morning,” it said.“You are a true friend of Turkey,” the official responded.The indictment also cited numerous interactions that Mr. Adams or his aides had with foreign businesspeople while seeking to collect illegal foreign contributions for his campaign as part of what prosecutors said was a straw donor scheme that enabled him to defraud the city’s program for public matching funds.In recent weeks, prosecutors said in a court filing that they had gathered additional evidence of Mr. Adams’s criminality. More
The criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams’s former chief adviser, who is charged with participating in a long-running bribery and money-laundering scheme, will proceed despite a request by the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against Mr. Adams.The case against the adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, and her son, Glenn Martin II, was brought by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, who accused the two of intervening with city regulators on behalf of two businessmen in exchange for $100,000 in bribes.Mr. Trump has no authority to intervene in the case against Ms. Lewis-Martin and Mr. Martin, which was brought in state criminal court in December. The president’s jurisdiction is limited to federal cases, like the one against Mr. Adams.Elizabeth Glazer, a former federal prosecutor who led the mayor’s office of criminal justice under Mr. Adams’s predecessor, Bill de Blasio, said it was “worth considering whether or not Bragg may have charges that he may be thinking of bringing” against Mr. Adams.In the case involving Ms. Lewis-Martin and her son, the indictment against them says, the businessmen, Mayank Dwivedi and Raizada Vaid, were seeking help pushing construction projects through the city’s Buildings Department.Ms. Lewis-Martin and Mr. Martin received the bribes in the form of checks that Mr. Martin cashed and used to buy a Porsche, according to prosecutors. Ms. Lewis-Martin, the indictment says, used her official position to “illegally influence Department of Buildings and other city decisions” in exchange for the cash and other benefits for herself and her son.Both are scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. More
