New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is under fire after his old tweets from 2015 resurfaced, criticising the FBI's surveillance on an al-Qaida terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki.

He is set to be the Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor in a race that could have implications for the party ...

Mamdani’s team described the ceremony as private, joyful and filled with love. When he won the primary, he thanked three persons – his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, his father, scholar Mahmood Mamdani, ...

Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for mayor, speaks during a press conference celebrating his primary victory with leaders and members of the city's labor unions on July 2, 2025 in New York.

Zohran Mamdani’s Parents: Meet Mira Nair & Mahmood Mamdani. ... When he was 5, the Mamdani family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, then moved to New York City two years later.

Mamdani’s family came to the United States when he was 7, and he became a citizen in 2018. He was born to Indian parents in Kampala, Uganda. For Kondabolu, this moment is not just exciting, but ...

The moment Andrew Cuomo said he had called Zohran Mamdani to concede the race, Kal Penn stopped mid-sentence. The actor and activist is also a family friend who has known Mamdani since he was 14 ...

Mamdani ‒ born to South Asian parents in Uganda but raised in New York City after his family moved there when he was 7 years old ‒ also refused to shy away from his stances that establishment ...

On Zohran Mamdani’s 2006 yearbook page from Bank Street, a private K-through-8 school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the eighth-grader included a quote attributed to Mark Twain: “Clothes ...

Mamdani’s family came to the United States when he was 7, and he became a citizen in 2018. He was born to Indian parents in Kampala, Uganda. For Kondabolu, this moment is not just exciting, but ...

President Donald Trump posted that Mamdani was a “100% Communist Lunatic” the day after the primary. In his news conference on Friday, Trump said companies looking to the invest in the U.S ...

The policies and personalities will be different, of course. But Mamdani’s approach in both that video and his campaign — not shaming anyone for supporting Trump but actually listening to what ...