From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign.

New York Mayor Eric Adams drops out of the mayoral race after pressure from President

Trump and business leaders to narrow the race to help disgrace former governor Andrew Cuomo

beat the Democratic mayoral candidate, Sorhan Mahmdani.

We'll get reaction from Mamdani in his first comments after Adams pulled out.

I think it's very much the same race.

There's no shortage of Trump donors who are seeking to influence this election, who are

looking to spend more money than I would even tax them to try and stop our campaign.

As Mamdani leads Cuomo in the polls by double digits, we'll speak with the Democratic Socialists about his platform.

New Yorkers are facing twin crises, authoritarianism from Washington, D.C., and an affordability

crisis from the inside. And we often tend to separate these out. We think about democracy

as an ideal that must be protected, but not that democracy also has to be able to deliver

on the material needs of working people.

Dozens of delegates walked out of the UN General Assembly Friday

as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the body.

We'll hear from voices of some of the thousands of protesters outside.

And finally, the former Black liberation leader Asada Shakur has died in Havana, Cuba,

where she received political asylum decades ago.

We'll play an excerpt of her reading an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his

1998 trip to Cuba.

Let me emphasize that justice for me is not the issue I am addressing here.

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