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New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ trip to Israel is not like typical mayoral delegations to the Jewish state.
People traveling with the mayor argued that a face-to-face with the prime minister is not a tacit endorsement of his nationalist policies.
Michael Cohen, one of Donald Trump’s most prominent former lawyers and now critic, is considering a long-shot bid for a deep-blue Manhattan congressional district.
Cohen is eyeing a run for Jerry Nadler’s affluent Manhattan district.
Mayor Eric Adams said late Wednesday he has not talked with President Joe Biden in 2023 — a striking admission for someone who was once on a list of the president’s top surrogates and who is seeking federal help for the city’s migrant crisis.
Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the “Biden of Brooklyn.”
In the name of prepping for an uncertain fiscal future, Mayor Eric Adams has given Budget Director Jacques Jiha wide latitude to reduce spending and quash initiatives sought by others in the administration.
The practice has saved the city money but has crowded out important policy and political considerations in the process.
Fiscal concerns have become a guiding principle for Mayor Eric Adams. That can make for bad politics.
A grim financial outlook for the country’s offshore wind power industry is threatening President Joe Biden’s most important energy plans.
Funding shortfalls are imperiling projects in New York, New Jersey and beyond.
Mayor Eric Adams doubled down Friday on comments he made earlier in the week comparing an 84-year-old whose family fled the Holocaust to a plantation owner.
The mayor justified his rhetoric by saying the woman, a tenant activist, was disrespectful.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis irked an influential New York Republican after his presidential campaign failed to coordinate a Rockland County fundraiser with the local party leader.
Rockland County GOP Chair Lawrence Garvey said he got no heads up from the DeSantis campaign before it sent out a flier for a $6,600-a-person fundraiser.
Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council have reached a deal to restore funding to public libraries, three people with knowledge of budget negotiations.
The accord settles one of the most contentious issues ahead of a handshake agreement on the city’s spending plan before the July 1 deadline.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against affirmative action in higher education, striking down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
In a ruling divided along ideological lines, the high court found that the two universities discriminated against white and Asian American applicants by using race-conscious admissions policies that benefited applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in the case. He was joined by the five other conservative justices. The three liberals dissented.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/29/supreme-court-ends-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-00104179
After lashing out at leading Republicans for busing asylum-seekers to Democrat-led cities, New York Mayor Eric Adams turned around and did something similar — sending dozens of migrants to red states like Florida and Texas.
Between April 2022 and April 2023, the city spent around $50,000 on travel costs to resettle 114 migrant households around the country and globe.
As the nation nears the one year anniversary of the fall of Roe, nearly a dozen challenges to abortion restrictions filed by clergy members and practitioners of everything from Judaism to Satanism that are now making their way through state and federal courts.
Jews, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Satanists and other people of faith say the laws infringe on their religious rights.
Donald Trump’s trial calendar is starting to fill up.
A judge set a January trial date in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio was hit with a historic fine Thursday by New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board for using an NYPD security detail for his ill-fated presidential run in 2019.
The former NYC mayor was ordered to pay nearly $500,000 for billing taxpayers for police officers' travel expenses during his failed White House bid.
When Chris Christie jumped into the crowded Republican presidential primary, it was with the expectation that he would aim his fire at his ally-turned-nemesis, Donald Trump.
But, on numerous occasions, it’s been Ron DeSantis getting hit with shrapnel — and Christie’s team says that’s no accident.
Christie is hoping a strong performance in the debates this summer — if he qualifies for them — will boost his standing in the polls.
Mayor Eric Adams defended the purview of Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell a day after the NYPD leader resigned after just a year and a half on the job.
The departure of the police commissioner — a figure central to the mayor’s main campaign promise of controlling crime — is the latest high-profile cabinet member to leave the Adams administration.
Attorney General Tish James said she’s had threats on her life amidst partisan anger fueled by former President Donald Trump’s legal cases and is concerned about lone wolf-style attacks.
The New York attorney general, who is pursuing a civil fraud case against Trump, said she has increased security and fears a "lone wolf" attack.
Current and former national security officials claim the case in Trump's 2nd unsealed indictment is “devastating” against him and that “damage” may have been done to U.S. national security.
The material in the former president’s possession include information on U.S. nuclear programs, according to an indictment.
The large number of drug-related programs in Harlem has emerged as a major theme in the neighborhood’s City Council race between two sitting state lawmakers and a member of the wrongly convicted Central Park Five.
“Harlem is used as what could be considered a dumping ground,” said one candidate, exonerated Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam.
It’s been two decades since Canadian wildfires sent smoke barreling toward the U.S. as it has this week.
And there could be days more of it in store.
Why the country has struggled to beat back forest fires
State legislative leaders said Thursday they had reached a deal on a sweeping package of housing proposals — but won’t move forward this session, blaming opposition from Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Hochul countered that if they could pass the bills, they should have done so.
Legislators appear to be heading home without doing much at all. The six-month session is set to end Friday.
Yes, Donald Trump faces years in prison if found guilty of mishandling classified documents. No, there's nothing stopping him from continuing to run for president again.
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He could follow the playbook of the socialist firebrand Eugene V. Debs, who in 1920 received nearly a million votes while behind bars.
Lawmakers were quick to react following the news that former President Donald Trump had been indicted on charges connected to his handling of classified documents.
The comments largely fell along party lines, with Republicans denouncing the documents investigation and Democrats criticizing the 2024 GOP presidential candidate.
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has been indicted on charges connected to his handling of classified national security records.
Special counsel Jack Smith has spent months investigating Trump's retention of sensitive national security information at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Chris Christie has officially filed the paperwork to make another run for the White House — a long-shot campaign where he’ll seek to position himself as the GOP’s most credible Trump critic.
He's spent weeks sharpening his attacks on Trump.
State lawmakers are making a renewed push at the behest of the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean community to get a school holiday in New York City for Diwali, the festival of lights.
The bill and its potential approval has been years in the making.
Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a Manhattan judge to recuse himself from presiding over the criminal case against the former president, arguing in a court filing that the judge is biased and has a conflict of interest.
The former president’s lawyers said in court papers that the judge cannot be impartial.
Donald Trump’s resurgence has notably chilled GOP recruitment across the country.
Potential Republican candidates in swing states and districts are reluctant to throw hats into ring.
In a first-of-its-kind ruling, Mount Sinai Hospital has been ordered to pay a fine for a “persistent pattern” of understaffing its neonatal intensive care unit.
The Mount Sinai penalty is the first time a New York City hospital has been held financially liable for violating new staffing ratios won by nurses after a three-day strike in January.
Two New York counties have declared states of emergency in a bid to halt New York City’s attempt to move asylum-seekers to vacant hotels in their communities, and one is already taking its fight to court.
When the White House looked for a spot where President Joe Biden could blast Republicans over the debt ceiling drama, it found a ready made locale in New York’s Hudson Valley.
The bucolic suburbs were one of the few places in the nation where GOP congressional candidates beat expectations during the midterm.
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Nearly 150 counter protestors were also at the scene, including Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), who told Rep. Greene to go "back to Washington and do something about gun violence."
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