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Mayoral candidate said he’d try to honor ICC warrant for Israeli prime minister’s arrest over war crimes

If he wins his fall election, Zohran Mamdani would order New York’s police department to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu in the event that the Israeli prime minister ever traveled there, the city’s leading mayoral candidate said in a recent interview.

Mamdani – the Democratic nominee in the 4 November election – alleged to the New York Times on Thursday that Netanyahu was a war criminal who was committing genocide with Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, according to a report published by the outlet on Friday. He said he would honor an international criminal court (ICC) arrest warrant issued in November 2024 for Netanyahu’s arrest over alleged Gaza war crimes by having the Israeli leader taken into custody at the airport if he ever steps foot in New York and Mamdani is the mayor.

• Clippers accused of cap-circumventing scheme

• $28m ‘no-show’ deal tied to failed Aspiration bank

• Ballmer says he was conned, wants NBA to probe

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer claimed he had no knowledge of the deal between Kawhi Leonard and Aspiration and would “want the league to investigate” if another team were accused of circumventing the NBA’s salary cap.

“I’d want the league to investigate, take it seriously,” Ballmer told ESPN on Thursday in his first interview since the story broke following an extensive report by podcaster Pablo Torre.

• Clippers accused of cap-circumventing scheme

• $28m ‘no-show’ deal tied to failed Aspiration bank

• Ballmer says he was conned, wants NBA to probe

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer claimed he had no knowledge of the deal between Kawhi Leonard and Aspiration and would “want the league to investigate” if another team were accused of circumventing the NBA’s salary cap.

“I’d want the league to investigate, take it seriously,” Ballmer told ESPN on Thursday in his first interview since the story broke following an extensive report by podcaster Pablo Torre.

Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure

Georgia prosecutors are facing what one expert called “probably the highest-profile failure of using conspiracy charges to indict a protest movement” in US history, after a two-year attempt to prosecute a criminal conspiracy in connection with opposition to the police training center known as Cop City.

Fulton county superior court Judge Kevin Farmer announced his decision to dismiss charges against the case’s 61 defendants during hearings this week on a handful of defense attorney motions.

Invective against Kash Patel includes insults to his handling of investigation, his ethnicity and his reference to Valhalla

The killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has conjured a storm of online criticism on the far right towards the FBI director, Kash Patel, both for his perceived incompetent stewardship of the bureau and his invocation of Viking lore.

During the news conference announcing the arrest of Tyler Robinson, 22, the alleged killer of Kirk at a Salt Lake City campus on Wednesday, Patel made triumphant statements as the Utah governor, Spencer Cox, looked on.