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New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach - these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America's largest city while gradually becoming part of it. That history makes one omission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani's recently released map of immigrant communities particularly striking. Little Italy wasn't there. Instead, the map highlighted a series of neighborhoods identified as "Little Pakistan," "Little Senegal," "Little Yemen" and even "Little Palestine."

Finding out that, by a 3-to-2 margin, Americans think the country is “evolving into a big government socialist state” is bad enough. Far more worrisome is finding out how many Republicans and self-styled conservatives are on board with one of socialism’s central tenets. The latest I&I/TIPP Poll, which we are reporting on today, finds that nearly half of Americans agree that we’re sliding into socialism, and less than a third disagree. (See: “By 3-To-2 Margin, Americans Believe U.S. Is Turning Into A ‘Socialist State’: It also finds that Republicans are more pessimistic about the future than Democrats,

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday endorsed a nonbinding House resolution that would declare that cartels, terrorists and other criminal actors invaded the southern border states during the Biden administration and that the Constitution allows states to act unilaterally against those threats. H.Res.50, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on January 16, 2025, has remained before the House Judiciary Committee since its referral. The measure had 40 cosponsors as of Wednesday. As a simple House resolution, the measure would express the chamber’s position but would remain nonbinding. It would not require Senate approval, go to President Donald Trump or carry the force of law.