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Deadliest NYC shooting in decades takes center stage in mayoral race as candidates spar on public safety
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The four candidates running to be the next mayor of New York City are reacting to the worst mass shooting in the city in a quarter-century as public safety and crime continue to be one of the most prevalent issues in the race.
«Officer Didarul Islam was one of four people killed in yesterday’s horrific shooting,» Mamdani posted on X on Tuesday, a day after four people, including NYPD officer Islam, were gunned down by a Nevada man inside a high-rise office building on Park Avenue before the shooter took his own life in a crime that sent shockwaves though the city.
«A Bangladeshi immigrant who joined the NYPD four years ago, he lived in Parkchester with his pregnant wife, their two young children, and his elderly parents.»
Mamdani’s post continued, «When he joined the police department, his mother asked him why he would pursue such a dangerous job. He told her it was to leave behind a legacy that his family could be proud of. He has done that, and more.
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A split image of New York City mayoral candidates (from left to right) Zohran Mamdani, Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. (Getty Images)
«I pray for him, his family, and honor the legacy of service and sacrifice he leaves behind.»
MAMDANI DODGES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THREATS TO NYPD IN FIRST PRESSER SINCE DEADLY MANHATTAN SHOOTING
Mamdani’s post faced backlash from some online who accused the mayoral candidate of giving lip service to the police given his previous calls to defund the police and a post where he said «nature is healing» in response to someone who said they saw a police officer crying in his car.
Some also pointed to Mamdani’s previous pledge to disband the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Group (SRG) which was a unit that responded to the midtown shooting.
«Come on, @ZohranKMamdani,» Republican New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov posted on X. «Spare us the BS.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani for an interview but did not receive a response.
During a Wednesday press conference, Mamdani offered comfort to the families of all the victims and attempted to distance himself from his previous calls to defund the police, saying that his «statements in 2020» were made out of «frustration» regarding the death of George Floyd.
«To the families of Aland and Officer Islam and to security guards and police officers across the city,» Mamdani said. «I want to thank them for the work that they do each and every day.»
The 33-year-old democratic socialist returned to New York City on Wednesday from his wedding celebration in Uganda and immediately visited the home of the fallen NYPD officer, Didarul Islam, and then held a press conference with Islam’s brother at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) headquarters in Manhattan.
Mamdani continued, «Looking at the crisis of retention that we have in the city today, to try and pin it upon tweets from five years ago, as opposed to the conditions of this moment, is to ignore what officers themselves are saying.»
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is running for re-election in 2024. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
«When you ask officers why they leave, one of the leading causes they cite is forced overtime, an inability to have a quality of life when they know they are actually going to come home. These are the kinds of things that we have to address to ensure that not only can we keep the officers we have on the job, but that we can also deliver on public safety,» Madamni said.
Incumbent mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, is campaigning for re-election as an Independent.
In his official capacity as mayor, Adams was quick to the scene Monday evening, posting social media updates and holding news conferences to relay the latest information on the tragic incident to New Yorkers.
Since the shooting, Adams has attended the dignified transfer of Islam, and a multi-faith prayer vigil to honor the four victims.
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NYPD Crime Scene Unit investigator takes pictures of a bullet hole at the scene of a deadly mass shooting in Manhattan, New York City, on July 29, 2025. (Kylie Cooper/Reuters)
«We must continue to stand together every day to fight back against and prevent the senseless gun violence in our country,» Adams shared on X.
Adams revealed to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on «The Story» on Tuesday that the New York City gunman acquired part of his rifle from an associate.
«The lower part [of the rifle] we are finding out was purchased by an associate,» Adams said.
The New York City mayor said there is a «mental health aspect» to Monday’s shooting, and «we have to ensure that our laws are stronger.»
«Our laws must be clearer on identifying those with mental health issues,» Adams said.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa speaks during an anti-migrant rally and protest outside of Gracie Mansion on Aug. 27, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Adams, who was unavailable for an interview before publication, clarified that «this incident did not unfold because of the lack of police personnel, it unfolded because a very dangerous person decided he was going to take the life of anyone he came in contact with.»
But Curtis Sliwa, the two-time Republican nominee for New York City mayor, told Fox News Digital that he believes understaffing played a role in the tragedy.
«My initial reaction is exactly the reaction that I had when, a year ago, we saw Luigi Mangione gun down that health care executive right in the midtown area as he waited for him at a nearby Starbucks across from the Hilton,» Sliwa told Fox News Digital.
«The police were not patrolling the area. It used to be in areas like that of high traffic. Tourists and business people in Fortune 500 companies would have a foot patrol in a sector. They’ve eliminated that because we just don’t have enough police.»
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Candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference while campaigning outside a Subway station in New York City, on April 1, 2025. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
Sliwa dismissed calls for more gun control in the wake of the shooting and said instead what the city «desperately» needs is more police officers on the streets.
«We’re down to 31,000 cops,» Sliwa said. «We need to get them up to 40,000. And I’m the only candidate who is saying we need to hire immediately 7,000 trained professional police officers to be visible in the streets of New York.»
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running for mayor as an Independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic Primary, spoke to Fox News Digital by phone and criticized Mamdani’s record on policing, including his previous call to disband the SRG.
«He said just a few months ago, he would disband the Strategic Response Group, which was the group that responds to first attacks and responded to this Park Avenue situation, and he’s been very consistent, he said in the campaign ‘defund the police,’» Cuomo said.
«He goes the next step, dismantle the police, right? But he has said the NYPD are racists, the police are a threat to public safety. So I have said that I think he’s dangerous because he doesn’t understand the need for public safety in this city.»
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced he was relaunching his New York City mayoral campaign as an independent. (REUTERS/David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
Cuomo told Fox News Digital that the shooting has the potential to shake up the mayoral race.
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«Yes, it does, because New Yorkers have PTSD from 9/11 and from other horrific situations, and I think it’s always in the back of every New Yorker’s mind that all it takes is one mentally ill person with an assault weapon and that’s TNT,» Cuomo explained.
«That is a public safety stick of dynamite and, yeah, I think it brought that back. It’s sort of back to reality, right? New York City, you’re a target. You are a target, you’re an international target for terrorists. You are the big stage for people who want to make a statement.»
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Jack Smith pushes for public testimony to confront ‘mischaracterizations’ of Trump probes
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is requesting to testify in open, public hearings before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Fox News Digital has learned.
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a letter Smith’s attorneys sent to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Thursday afternoon, after both panels signaled interest in testimony from the former special counsel.
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«Given the many mischaracterizations of Mr. Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Mr. Smith respectfully requests the opportunity to testify in open hearings before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees,» Smith attorneys Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski wrote.
Jack Smith, then-U.S. special counsel, speaks during a news conference in Washington, Aug. 1, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«During the investigation of President Trump, Mr. Smith steadfastly adhered to established legal standards and Department of Justice guidelines, consistent with his approach throughout his career as a dedicated public servant,» they wrote.
«He is prepared to answer questions about the Special Counsel’s investigation and prosecution, but requires assurance from the Department of Justice that he will not be punished for doing so,» they continued. «To that end, Mr. Smith needs guidance from the Department of Justice regarding federal grand jury secrecy requirements and authorization on the matters he may speak to regarding, among other things, Volume II of the Final Report of the Special Counsel, which is not publicly available.»
Smith’s attorneys also noted that in order to provide «full and accurate answers to your questions, Mr. Smith requires access to the Special Counsel files, which he no longer has the ability to access.»
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee leaves the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (Jose Luis Magana/The Associated Press )
JACK SMITH DEFENDS SUBPOENAING REPUBLICAN SENATORS’ PHONE RECORDS: ‘ENTIRELY PROPER’
«With the guidance and access described above, Mr. Smith is available to testify in an open hearing at your earliest convenience,» they wrote.
A source familiar told Fox News Digital that Smith’s attorneys are planning to officially seek guidance from the Department of Justice on the matter.
The letter from Smith’s attorneys comes after Jordan, R-Ohio, requested Smith appear for a closed-door transcribed interview and provide all records from his work related to President Donald Trump.
Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The letter also comes after Grassley, R-Iowa, and nearly two dozen Senate Republicans demanded that the Department of Justice and FBI release documents on Smith’s decision to subpoena telecommunications companies for phone records of a number of Senate Republicans during his probe into Jan. 6, 2021.
Fox News Digital exclusively reported earlier in October that Smith tracked the private communications and phone calls of GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania as part of his «Arctic Frost» investigation.
An official said the records were collected in 2023 by Smith and his team after subpoenaing major telephone providers.
FBI Director Kash Patel shakes hands with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Sept. 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
An FBI official told Fox News Digital that Smith and his team tracking the senators were able to see which phone numbers they called, the location the phone call originated and the location where it was received.
A source said the calls were likely in reference to the vote to certify the 2020 election.
Smith, though, called his decision to subpoena several Republican lawmakers’ phone records, calling the move «entirely proper» and consistent with Justice Department policy.
«As described by various Senators, the toll data collection was narrowly tailored and limited to the four days from January 4, 2021 to January 7, 2021, with a focus on telephonic activity during the period immediately surrounding the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol,» Smith’s lawyers wrote Tuesday to Grassley.
A split image featuring US Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Smith was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022.
Smith, after months of investigating, charged President Donald Trump in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., in his 2020 election case, but after Trump was elected president, Smith sought to dismiss the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted that request.
Smith’s case cost taxpayers more than $50 million.
Fox News’ Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.
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Expertos advierten que limpiar Gaza de artefactos explosivos sin detonar llevará entre 20 y 30 años
Limpiar la superficie de Gaza de artefactos explosivos sin detonar llevará probablemente entre 20 y 30 años, según un funcionario de la organización humanitaria Humanity & Inclusion, que describe el enclave como un “horrible campo de minas sin cartografiar”.
Según una base de datos dirigida por la ONU, más de 53 personas han muerto y cientos han resultado heridas por los restos mortales de la guerra de dos años entre Israel y Hamas, lo que los grupos de ayuda consideran una enorme subestimación.
El alto el fuego logrado este mes con la mediación de Estados Unidos ha aumentado las esperanzas de que pueda comenzar la ingente tarea de sacarlos de entre millones de toneladas de escombros.
“Si se trata de un desminado completo, nunca se hará, es subterráneo. Lo encontraremos durante generaciones”, afirma Nick Orr, experto en desactivación de artefactos explosivos de Humanity & Inclusion, comparando la situación con la de las ciudades británicas tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
“Despejar la superficie, eso sí que es algo alcanzable dentro de una generación, creo que de 20 a 30 años”, añadió. “Va a ser una pequeña reducción de un problema muy grande”.
Orr, que estuvo en Gaza varias veces durante el conflicto, forma parte del equipo de siete personas de su organización que la semana que viene empezará a identificar restos de guerra en infraestructuras esenciales como hospitales y panaderías.
Por ahora, sin embargo, los grupos de ayuda como el suyo no han recibido permiso general de Israel para empezar a retirar y destruir los artefactos, ni para importar el equipo necesario, dijo.
COGAT, el brazo del Ejército israelí que supervisa la ayuda a Gaza, no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios. Bloquea la entrada en Gaza de artículos que considera de “doble uso”, tanto civil como militar.
Orr dijo que estaba solicitando permiso para importar suministros para quemar bombas en lugar de detonarlas, con el fin de aliviar la preocupación de que puedan ser reutilizadas por Hamas.
Se mostró partidario de una fuerza temporal como la prevista en el plan de alto el fuego de 20 puntos.
“Si va a haber algún tipo de futuro dentro de Gaza, tiene que haber una fuerza de seguridad que permita a los trabajadores humanitarios que hagan sus tareas”, afirmó Orr.
Por otra parte, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmó que Israel “perderá su apoyo” si decide seguir adelante con el proceso legal para la anexión de Cisjordania, una cuestión que la Administración Trump ha pedido dejar fuera de la mesa en reiteradas ocasiones.
En una entrevista concedida a la revista Time, Trump aseguró, no obstante, que esto “no sucederá”. “No va a suceder porque he dado mi palabra a los países árabes y no es algo que pueda hacerse ahora, tenemos un gran apoyo de estos países. Israel perdería el apoyo de Estados Unidos si esto sucede”, aclaró.
En este sentido, aseguró que sus acciones han permitido “frenar a (Benjamin) Netanyahu a la hora de seguir con los ataques en Gaza”. “Simplemente habría seguido con la guerra durante años”, dijo, al tiempo que recordó que insistió al primer ministro israelí sobre la cuestión de ponerle fin. “Le dije que se pueden librar batallas de forma unilateral, pero que el mundo estaba en su contra. E Israel es un lugar pequeño en comparación con el mundo”, dijo.
“Le detuve porque iba a seguir. Fue increíble”, sostuvo, al tiempo que aseguró que los intentos de Israel de acabar con la cúpula de Hamas con sus ataques sobre Qatar “fueron un error”, algo “terrible”, pero que creó la posibilidad de lograr por fin un acuerdo. “Cuando cometieron ese error táctico, el de Qatar, le dije al emir que esa cuestión nos colocaría a todos en la misma página”, sostuvo.
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Democrats blocked a Republican-led attempt to provide essential government workers with paychecks amid an ongoing, 23-day shutdown, calling the bill overly selective and incomplete.
That bill, proposed by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Todd Young, R-Ind., failed in a 54-45 vote, where 60 votes were needed to advance the bill over the threat of a filibuster.
Only three Democrats, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia, voted with Republicans.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., turns to an aide during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, June 3, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
In addition to compensating federal employees and military personnel during the current shutdown, the bill would also extend relief to future instances where funding bills aren’t in effect.
«For fiscal year 2026, and any fiscal year thereafter, there are appropriated such sums as are necessary to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments on a regular basis to excepted employees,» the bill reads.
SENATE STALLS ON SHUTDOWN VOTE AMID WARNING FURLOUGHED WORKERS MAY LOSE PAY
Johnson had pitched his bill as a long-term solution.
«I just hope, on a nonpartisan basis, we do something that makes sense around here for once,» Johnson said ahead of the bill’s consideration.
«With Democrats continuing the Schumer Shutdown, they should at least agree to pay all the federal employees that are forced to continue working. The 2025 Shutdown Fairness Act is a permanent fix that will ensure excepted workers and our troops are paid during a shutdown,» Johnson said.
Other Republicans blasted Democrats for voting against the bill.
«It means Democrats don’t care,» Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said. «We know this is going to end sometime. The question is when. I guess it will depend on how much carnage the Democrats want to create. To me, they are in a box canyon, and they can’t figure out how to get out.»
Essential federal employees have been asked to continue working since the government entered a shutdown on Oct. 1 after lawmakers failed to pass spending legislation to begin the 2026 fiscal year. Republicans have advanced a short-term spending extension that would open the government through Nov. 21. Democrats have repeatedly rejected that proposal though, demanding that Congress first consider an extension to expiring COVID-19-era supplemental funding for Obamacare health insurance subsidies.
Republicans, who maintain that the health insurance subsidies are unrelated to the government’s short-term funding needs, have rejected those demands out of hand.
Democrats in the Senate have voted 12 times to defeat the stopgap bill.
JOHNSON WARNS US ‘BARRELING TOWARD ONE OF THE LONGEST SHUTDOWNS’ IN HISTORY
Sen. Ron Johnson talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol after the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025. (Tom Williams/Getty Images)
The shutdown looks poised to continue with no resolution in sight, prompting lawmakers to worry about key areas that are feeling the shutdown’s effects more acutely. The Johnson-Young supplemental package was the most recent attempt to provide a limited basis for relieving some of that pain.
Ahead of Thursday’s vote, Republicans in the House of Representatives appeared open to considering the Johnson-Young bill.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told House Republicans during a lawmaker-only call on Tuesday that his chamber would be «prepared to act» if the bill passed the Senate, Fox News Digital was told. Johnson has repeatedly said he would give lawmakers 48 hours’ notice to return to Washington before any votes but has largely signaled he will keep the House out of session until Senate Democrats pass the GOP’s funding bill.
Johnson also said on the call that he was skeptical the bill would get enough Senate Democratic support to pass.
«If they oppose the Ron Johnson bill in the Senate, it will be absolutely clear that they are simply using the military and air traffic control and law enforcement and all these other personnel as pawns for their political efforts,» Johnson said, Fox News Digital was told.
But other lawmakers had hesitations about partially reopening the government, offering relief to some workers and not others. That was the concern of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., ahead of Thursday’s vote.
«I have a concern about picking and choosing among all the federal workers,» Blumenthal said.
«I’m fine to support it. I think we need to pay our military, but I want to define and limit it in a way that provides pay to essential workers who serve our public safety and our national defense,» Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal voted against the measure.
Democrats in the House of Representatives signaled similar lines of opposition to the idea behind the Johnson-Young bill.
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«It’s not legislation that I support, because it appears to be more like a political ploy to pick and choose, giving Donald Trump discretion [over] which employees should be compensated, and which employees should not be compensated. All employees should be compensated and that will happen when we reopen the government,» House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told reporters on Monday.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., holds a press conference on the 14th day of the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 14, 2025. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
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Senate Democrats also defeated other pieces of legislation that would open portions of the government. Last week, Democrats in the Senate voted against a 2026 defense spending bill — one of the 12 year-long bills normally used to fund the government.
Aside from the Johnson-Young bill, the Senate will not consider other pieces of spending legislation on Thursday. Senators are scheduled to leave Washington, D.C., on Thursday and will return at the beginning of next week.
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