Former President Barack Obama held a 30-minute call with self-declared socialist Zohran Mamdani, praising his "impressive" campaign and offering to be a "sounding board" should he win the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is pumping the brakes on the notion that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist leading New York City's mayoral race, represents the future of the Democratic Party.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump's immigration policies, has hearings on Dec. 8-9 in the human smuggling case against him in Tennessee.

The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people stand to lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to expire and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.

President Trump declined to say if the U.S. would strike Venezuela, insisted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids could go further and defended his pardon of a crypto billionaire in a wide-ranging and, at times, contentious interview on "60 Minutes."

President Donald Trump's administration faces Monday deadlines to tell two federal judges whether it will use emergency reserves to fully fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, during the government shutdown.