BUDGET DEAL NEARS: State lawmakers met this afternoon to hammer out the final details of the proposed $252 billion budget.

Zohran Mamdani’s unexpectedly popular campaign is raising the question of what a socialist might accomplish as mayor of NYC.

And the session ends badly for Sir Keir as the independent leftie MP Zarah Sultana, suspended from Labour last July for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, launches a long attack on his ...