The bumpy rollout of the tax created an opportunity for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s opponents to fight him in court and in the City Council.
Source: [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/nyregion/mamdani-second-home-tax-rollout.html)
The Friday Night Football panel discuss whether Arsenal are still shy of a world-class attacker that would see them get over the line to win their first UEFA Champions League title.
Police issued an arrest warrant for the wife of an off-duty Worcester, Massachusetts police officer who was found dead inside their home earlier in the week.
As Vice President JD Vance declares economic pressure "the most effective tool that we have," Iran seeks to show deepening trade ties with its neighbors.
Layne Riggs will lead the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series field to green Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after winning the pole for the EJP 175. Riggs turned a 29. 346-second lap to claim the top starting spot, beating Kaden Honeycutt by more than two-tenths of a second.
The good news is that the world has stopped responding breathlessly to Donald Trump’s every empty provocation. That’s also the bad news.
The Trump administration has notified Congress of its plans to pay more than $800 million of the several billion it owes to the United Nations