Mayor Eric Adams?

Adams takes the lead in NYC's Democratic mayoral race; the Taliban reclaims territory in Afghanistan.

Eric Adams holds the lead in New York City's mayoral primary; the Taliban is reclaiming territory in Afghanistan.   Tonight's Sentences was written by Gabby Birenbaum. TOP NEWS Adams is winning in NYC, but a final tally could take weeks     Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Brooklyn borough president and former police officer Eric Adams took a 10-point lead in the Democratic primary for New York's mayoral race last night, with 31.13 percent of first-place votes. [WSJ / Katie Honan] No candidate received 50 percent of the vote, so under New York's newly implemented ranked-choice system, voters' second choice, third choice, and so forth will be redistributed as candidates get eliminated in a process that will likely go into July. [USA Today / Ryan W. Miller] Maya Wiley, the lead progressive choice and a former counsel to current Mayor Bill de Blasio, is in second place with 22.3 percent. Kathryn Garcia, a former sanitation commissioner, holds third place with 19.7 percent. [NYT / Katie Glueck] Former frontrunner Andrew Yang was left in a distant fourth with 11.7 percent of the vote. He conceded on Tuesday night. [The Hill / Tal Axelrod] Each Tuesday, the city will release a new round of counted votes, in which the last-place finisher is eliminated. Voters who ranked an eliminated candidate first will see their vote redistributed to their second choice, and so on until a candidate has claimed 50 percent of the vote. [NPR / Brigid Bergen, Jaclyn Diaz, and Bill Chappell] The mayoral election had descended into a chaotic circus as the campaign came to a close, with a number of candidates making bizarre statements and conversations centering on where Adams actually lives, for example. [Vox / Emily Stewart] Frontrunner Adams ran on a "law and order" platform and made crime the central issue in the election, while also casting himself as the candidate representing New York's forgotten Black and brown neighborhoods. [Intelligencer / David Freedlander] The Taliban makes gains as the US prepares to leave Afghanistan Taliban militants have claimed 50 of Afghanistan's 370 districts since May, as the insurgent group has begun pressing into territory they do not traditionally hold and the US and NATO troops prepare to leave after two decades. [CNN / Nic Robertson, Mohammed Tawfeeq, and Richard Roth] As the Taliban gains ground across northern Afghanistan, anti-Taliban militias have sprung up in multiple provinces, triggering fears of a potential civil war and the kind of anarchy the country experienced in the 1990s. [Washington Post / Pamela Constable and Ezzatullah Mehrdad] As in the '90s, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the rise of mujahedeen militia infighting, various ethnic groups are arming themselves, creating the potential for Afghanistan to return to a coalition of fiefdoms and undermine the democratic government. [NYT / David Zucchino and Fatima Faizi] With the impending withdrawal of the last US forces, many Afghan translators and contractors who have worked with American military officials for years say they fear for their lives due to the Taliban, and are waiting on a solution to a visa backlog that would help them escape to the US. [ABC News / Martha Raddatz, Cindy Smith, and Conor Finnegan] The United Nations is desperately trying to ensure negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban occur diplomatically rather than on the battlefield, urging the Taliban to honor its agreement to renounce terrorism in exchange for American forces leaving the country. [AP / Edith M. Lederer] MISCELLANEOUS The Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision ruled in favor of the "cursing cheerleader" who was kicked off of her high school cheer team for sending an expletive-filled off-campus Snapchat cursing out the school and the team. The court ruling found her removal was overly punitive, though it sidestepped many other questions about student free speech. [Vox / Ian Millhiser] In 2019, then-President Trump consulted advisers and lawyers about how he could use the Federal Communications Commission or the Department of Justice to compel Saturday Night Live to stop making fun of him. [Daily Beast / Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley] Former DNC Chair and Secretary of Labor Tom Perez announced he is running for governor of Maryland. [Baltimore Sun / Pamela Wood] Europe's governing soccer body banned a German stadium from projecting rainbow lights for Pride during a match between Germany and Hungary, after Hungary passed an anti-LGBTQ law. 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