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Parkland survivor jumps into crowded NYC House race as Gen Z progressives challenge party elders

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John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg picked up plenty of national attention when he launched a congressional campaign to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., but the content creator is far from the only young, progressive candidate vying to represent the Big Apple in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Democratic activist Cameron Kasky, 25, launched a campaign on Tuesday for New York’s 12th Congressional District, joining an already crowded field of Democratic primary contenders.
Kasky is jumping into the race as progressives across the U.S., especially in New York City, seek to seize Democrats’ success in the 2025 races, including gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia and 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani taking the helm of the largest city in America.
«New Yorkers are always on the move, reaching new heights, and rushing towards the future, but today’s leaders just can’t keep up,» Kasky said in his announcement video, while walking through a busy New York City between jump cuts of the Gen-Z activist riding public transportation.
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Co-founder of the student-led gun violence prevention group «Never Again,» Cameron Kasky, speaks at the March For Our Lives II to protest against gun violence on June 11, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. (Sarah Morris/Getty Images)
The video is reminiscent in tone and style to Mamdani’s own jumpy and cinematic-forward videos, with Kasky’s political campaign debut scripted over a jazzy musical ensemble.
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«I’m Cameron Kasky, and I’m running for Congress because it feels like our party has no future, so we need to invest in a new generation of leaders to take on the fight.
Kasky said «he never dreamed» of getting into politics, but after surviving a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, and later leading the March For Our Lives, a student-led organization supporting gun control legislation, he said he learned «the hard way» that it happened because of the «American system,» he now seeks to dismantle.
His key campaign promises are Medicare for All, calling for an end to «funding genocide» and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Both Schlossberg and Kasky are seeking to unseat Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., the 78-year-old who is retiring at the end of next year after decades in Congress. Nadler currently represents Manhattan’s West Side, from Chelsea and Greenwich Village, through Midtown and Hell’s Kitchen, all the way up to the Upper West Side.

Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President John F. Kennedy, takes a photo as U.S. President Joe Biden departs for Michigan from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Sept. 6, 2024. (Annabelle Gordon/Reuters)
Kasky’s announcement came on the heels of New York City Council member Chi Ossé launching a primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in a neighboring congressional district amid an ongoing discussion about the party’s future.
But even Mayor-elect Mamdani has rejected Ossé’s primary launch against Jeffries, arguing it’s not «the right time» to challenge the highest ranking House Democrat.
As for Schlossberg, he is practically political royalty. But to New York City’s chronically online electorate, he is better known as the star of hundreds of satirical, and often absurd, viral videos, amassing close to 850,000 TikTok followers and nearly 770,000 on Instagram.
Despite the followers and the Kennedy connections, Schlossberg has a thin résumé. He most recently served as a political correspondent for Vogue during the 2024 presidential election.
Kasky and Schlossberg are far from the only candidates in an already jam-packed Democratic primary.
Nonprofit leader and activist Liam Elkind is also in the running, and Elkind’s own launch video follows a similar walk-and-talk style as his fellow young, progressive opponents.

United States Senator Jerry Nadler (D-NY) attends the 2023 New York City Pride March on June 25, 2023, in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Chief among the 26-year-old’s campaign promises is to «actually fight Trump,» in addition to improving the Democratic Party, ending corruption, affordability and civil rights.
Also campaigning in the crowded field are Assembly members Micah Lasher and Alex Bores as well as Council member Erik Bottcher.
According to 43-year-old Lasher, he is running to «revitalize the Democratic Party, fight Trump’s agenda, and deliver results that improve the lives of New Yorkers.»
Meanwhile, Bores, who is in his mid-30s, said he is «running for Congress because big systems have stopped working for the little guys — but together, we can fix them.»
And 46-year-old Bottcher is running to «keep the New York City dream alive and take back our country.»
Civil rights lawyer Laura Dunn, former journalist and political commentator Jami Floyd, Merrill Lynch and Mercury Capital Advisors alum Alan Pardee, and LGBTQ rights activist Matthew Shurka are all vying for the coveted Democratic nomination.
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Forty-year-old Dunn said she is «running fearlessly for the people,» while 61-year-old Floyd notably did not vote for Mamdani this November and has been carving out a moderate position in the primary.
Pardee, 58, said he is running to create «policies that make our city livable for all families,» and Shurka, 37, said he is campaigning to «take on corruption, confront Donald Trump’s attacks on this city, and fight for the people who make New York home.»
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Irán: los tres desafíos que enfrenta la oposición en el exilio para intentar tomar el poder

La dividida oposición iraní busca reorganizarse para terminar con 47 años de fragmentación y presionar desde el exilio, y con sus escasas fuerzas en el territorio, a la golpeada Revolución Islámica de Irán.
No es un objetivo fácil, pero sus representantes ven la actual guerra como una oportunidad única para lograr “un cambio de régimen” bajo las bombas de Estados Unidos e Israel.
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La oposición tiene hoy ante sí tres grandes desafíos difíciles de resolver.
- Carece de una figura como María Corina Machado, líder de la disidencia venezolana, que sea capaz de unificar a las decenas de grupos opositores desparramados en el exilio. El “príncipe” Reza Pahlavi, heredero del Sha derrocado en 1979, quiere ocupar ese lugar, pero su figura genera una gran desconfianza y división.
- La inteligencia y las fuerzas de seguridad iraníes se han encargado de “limpiar” el país de todo atisbo opositor en las últimas cinco décadas. Todos los dirigentes de peso están exiliados o en prisión. De hecho, las protestas que sacudieron al país en las útimas semanas no tuvieron “caras visibles” y comenzaron como un movimiento de denuncia por la difícil situación económica. Ese es un fuerte limitante a la hora de convocar un golpe de escena interno impulsado por Donald Trump e Israel.
- Debe tender a una convergencia de las diferentes realidades étnicas, culturales, linguísticas y religiosas históricamente marginadas. Irán es un país de una enorme diversidad. El discriminado pueblo baluchi (sunnita, de la región montañosa de Baluchistán, en el sudeste del país) es un ejemplo claro. Irán es mayoritariamente chiíta.
En ese panorama la construcción de un frente unificado parece una tarea compleja. Hoy, los principales dirigentes en el exilio intentan superar las divisiones dentro y fuera de Irán para prepararse para lo que vendrá cuando cesen los ataques.
El razonamiento es simple: el gobierno teocrático iraní, tal como se lo conocía hasta el sábado, ya no existe. Evolucionará hacia otra cosa, que puede incluso ser aún más represiva o puede dar paso a una transición. En ese escenario, la unidad del exilio es un requisito fundamental si quiere actuar como un factor de poder y estabilidad en un nuevo Irán.
Qué pasa en la oposición iraní
La oposición iraní es un laberinto conformado por numerosos grupos enfrentados entre sí, de distinta ideología y con diferente matriz religiosa o étnica.
Paulo Botta, director de la oficina de Trends Research & Advisory en América Latina, dijo a TN que hoy “no hay nadie que pueda unificar a toda la oposición. Es algo de lo cual se ha encargado el régimen iraní en los últimos 50 años: hacer que no haya oposición organizada. Y eso es una gran dificultad”, apuntó. Una de las bombas caídas en Teherán (Foto: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)
Pero no solo la oposición busca ocupar un lugar en un hipotético nuevo Irán. También el heredero de la monarquía, el “príncipe” Reza Pahlavi, hijo del Sha Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, derrocado en 1979 por la Revolución Islámica.
“Nadie puede saber qué influencia tiene” en el pueblo iraní. “Posiblemente en alguna clase urbana puede haber algún apoyo. Más del 70% de los iraníes nacieron dentro de la República Islámica. Solo lo conocen por referencias familiares y nadie vivió directamente” bajo la gestión de su padre, dijo Botta.
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Para el analista, “es difícil pensar que alguien que viene de afuera, que poca gente recuerda, pueda de repente ser quien una a todos los iranies. Mucho más cuando su posición ha sido buscar apoyo incondicional de Estados Unidos”. Su bastión está en la derecha y en nostálgicos de la monarquía.
Grupos en el exilio buscan crear coaliciones
En ese marco, varios grupos kurdos iraníes impulsores de la autonomía lograron unificarse en una coalición, mientras que los republicanos llamaron a la unidad y convocaron a una reunión en Londres bajo el lema “Congreso por la Libertad de Irán”, según The Media Line, un medio estadounidense especializado en Medio Oriente.
La izquierda sigue fragmentada, pero varios dirigentes estudiantiles recientemente exiliados anunciaron la formación de una “Alianza Inclusiva de la Izquierda Revolucionaria”
Otro grupo importante es la Organización de Muyahidines del Pueblo de Irán, de la izquierda islámica, que participó activamente en el derrocamiento del Sha, pero rompió con la Revolución pocos años después. El gobierno islámico lo considera “terrorista”. Una mujer iraní camina en una calle de Teherán (Foto: Majid Asgaripou)
Hay otros grupos minoritarios que tienen participación dentro de Irán que están trabajando para crear una gran coalición, dijo The Media Line. “Estamos construyendo una red organizada e inclusiva que creará una conexión activa y eficaz entre las fuerzas dentro y fuera de Irán“, dijo Shirin Shams, líder del Colectivo Revolución de Mujeres.
El objetivo es “preparar una alternativa política para el período de transición, una alternativa distinta y arraigada en la sociedad iraní”, indicó.
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Pero el gran problema es la falta de un liderazgo organizado en el terreno que enfrente al poder islámico, más allá de la actual debilidad del gobierno. Importantes figuras, como la premio Nobel Narges Mohammadi, están encarceladas.
La idea de los diferentes grupos es crear distintas coaliciones capaces de dialogar entre sí para impulsar un movimiento de protesta en el país.
El influyente medio estadounidense Político resumió la situación: “Si bien la República Islámica ha fracasado estrepitosamente a la hora de proporcionar a su pueblo una economía funcional y un nivel de vida digno, ha sido muy eficaz en encerrar a sus oponentes. El país cuenta con una diáspora políticamente activa, pero está particularmente plagado de luchas internas, especialmente entre quienes desean que el ex príncipe heredero iraní Reza Pahlavi tome el control del país y quienes se le oponen. Como resultado, las fuerzas de la oposición tendrán dificultades para coordinarse y luego desmantelar las instituciones del régimen que aún existan”, concluyó.
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Supreme Court blocks California ban on notifying students’ parents about gender transitions

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The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for California schools to notify parents if their children want to change their gender identity without approval from the student amid a challenge against the Golden State’s ban on so-called forced outing of transgender students.
The court granted an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group, the Thomas More Society, blocking, at least for now, a state law that prohibited automatic parental notification requirements if students change their gender expression or pronouns at school.
The Thomas More Society praised the decision as «the most significant parental rights ruling in a generation.» Two sets of Catholic parents represented by the legal group argued that the state law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the students’ gender transitions.
Two sets of Catholic parents argued that the state law, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the students’ gender transitions. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
But California contended that students have the right to privacy about their gender expression, particularly if they fear rejection from their families who may not support their decision to adopt a new gender identity. The state also said school policies and state law sought to balance student privacy with parental rights.
Last year, state education officials told school districts that the state’s policy «does not mandate nondisclosure.» Newsom’s office also previously said that «parents continue to have full, guaranteed access to their student’s education records as required by federal law.»
The Supreme Court sided with the parents on Monday and reinstated a lower-court order blocking the law and school policies while the case continues.
«The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. California’s policies violate those beliefs,» the majority wrote in an unsigned order, adding that state policies also burden the free exercise of religion.

The Thomas More Society praised the decision as «the most significant parental rights ruling in a generation.» (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas also said they would have gone a step further and granted the teachers’ appeal to lift restrictions for them. The three liberal justices dissented, saying the case is still working its way through lower courts and there was no need to take action now.
«If nothing else, this Court owes it to a sovereign State to avoid throwing over its policies in a slapdash way, if the Court can provide normal procedures. And throwing over a State’s policy is what the Court does today,» Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
A federal judge ruled in December 2025 that schools cannot prevent teachers from sharing information about a student’s gender identity with their parents, but an appeals court blocked that ruling last month, leading the plaintiffs to ask the nation’s highest court to step in.
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The Supreme Court sided with the parents and reinstated a lower-court order blocking the law and school policies while the case continues. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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The high court has been weighing whether to hear arguments in cases out of other states such as Massachusetts and Florida filed by parents who say schools facilitated gender transitions without notifying them.
The U.S. Department of Education also announced last month that the California law violates federal law. The findings of the federal investigation could put at risk the nearly $8 billion in education funding the federal government gives the state each year if state officials do not work with the Trump administration to resolve the violations.
The Trump administration is also pursuing legal action against California and threatening to withhold funding over a policy allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Iranian drone strikes shut down Qatar LNG production facilities, as energy prices surge

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Iranian drone strikes forced Qatar to halt liquefied natural gas (LNG) production Monday, jolting global energy markets and raising fears about supply disruptions as Tehran increased its attacks on regional infrastructure.
QatarEnergy, the state-owned giant and one of the world’s largest LNG producers, suspended operations at two facilities after drones launched from Iran hit the sites, according to reports.
Qatar’s Ministry of Defense also said in a statement, that two drones hit facilities in the country, though no casualties were reported.
The attacks also targeted a water tank at a power plant in Mesaieed and a key energy installation in Ras Laffan.
Qatar suspends liquefied natural gas operations after Iranian drones hit facilities.
Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex is the world’s largest LNG export facility, making it one of the most critical energy hubs in the world.
About 20% of global LNG trade transited the Strait of Hormuz in 2024, primarily from Qatar, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Markets reacted Monday with Europe’s benchmark natural gas futures surging by the largest margin since the 2022 energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, Bloomberg reported.
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People gather as smoke rises at the Industrial Area after reported Iranian missile attacks, following United States and Israel strikes on Iran, in Doha, Qatar, March 1, 2026. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)
Bloomberg also reported Dutch TTF natural gas prices rose by 50% after news of the shutdown. Asian LNG prices also recorded gains as traders tried to assess the scale and length of the disruption.
«The threat to security of supply is here and now,» Simone Tagliapietra, an analyst at Bruegel, told Bloomberg. «The extent of it will depend on the duration of the shutdown, but we are now into a new scenario.»
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In Saudi Arabia, another drone attack caused a fire at the kingdom’s Ras Tanura oil refinery, forcing a partial shutdown there as well.
Saudi authorities have not reported casualties, but the attack heightened fears of broader instability in the Gulf’s energy corridor, according to reports.
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