After months of warning voters against Zohran Mamdani, President Trump said he found common ground with the mayor-elect in an Oval Office meeting.
Where Things Stand
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Mamdani and Trump: After months of harshly criticizing each other, President Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect in New York, met face-to-face at the White House and emerged warmly praising one another and stressing their common goals. “I feel very confident that he can do a good job,” Mr. Trump said. The mutual bonhomie was a striking turnabout for both Mr. Trump and Mr. Mamdani, who had traded labels like “communist” and “despot” during the mayoral campaign. Read more ›
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Greene resigning: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican from Georgia, announced that she would resign from Congress in January. She had positioned herself as a die-hard Trump supporter until a series of recent ruptures with the president, who recently unendorsed her. Read more ›
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Vaccines: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, said he personally told the C.D.C. to change its website, abandoning its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism. In an interview, Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that large studies had found no link to autism between the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine or the preservative thimerosal. But he suggested there were gaps in vaccine safety science, contradicting most mainstream public health leaders.
