Mr. Bowman defeated the 16-term incumbent in a race that pitted the Democratic establishment against the party’s progressive wing.Jamaal Bowman ran on an anti-establishment message.Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York TimesJuly 17, 2020Updated 1:19 p.m. ETJamaal Bowman, a progressive insurgent, has scored a stunning victory over Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York in the…
It took nearly a month, but a progressive insurgent challenger has toppled longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in New York’s Democratic primary, ousting the powerful chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee in a major upset.The Associated Press called the race for Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal and first-time candidate, on Friday, more than three…
Rep. Eliot Engel’s bruising primary fight to fend off a left-leaning challenger in New York’s 16th Congressional District has become the latest front in the battle between establishment Democrats and the insurgent wing led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Tuesday’s contest has Democrats choosing sides, with some top party figures turning on Mr. Engel and the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…