politics

The Mayor’s meeting with Tom Homan was met with criticism and apprehension from the public. News 4 New York’s Melissa Russo reports. 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar.” Adams met Thursday with Tom Homan after the mayor has expressed an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue criminals in the city while Trump promises mass deportations of people living in the country illegally. Adams has recently warmed to the Trump administration....

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine officialized his run for NYC Comptroller early Thursday, declaring in a post on X that he would use the office to “address our city’s historic crisis of affordability and livability, and to restore broken confidence in government.” Levine was a two-term New York City Council and a public school teacher, becoming Borough President in 2022….

IRS leadership on Thursday announced that the agency has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and proceeds from a variety of crimes.

Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback after his once-promising career was destroyed by sexting scandals and later a criminal conviction for having illicit online contact with a child. Campaign finance records list a campaign committee that was set up on Friday for Weiner called Weiner 25,...

The president-elect suggested in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the former committee’s members should be jailed.

President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law is widely viewed as a candidate to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat.

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has been arrested on federal public corruption charges, officials said Friday.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on Friday raised concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Bob Menendez asked a judge Wednesday to set aside guilty verdicts that forced his resignation from the U.S. Senate and grant a new bribery trial.

Federal authorities have opened an investigation into Queens pastor Alfred Cockfield and a political action committee he started, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

A record number of Americans are seeking alternative residences outside of the U.S. with voters feeling a mix of emotions as President-elect Donald Trump soon takes office, according to a global investment firm. Election week, from Nov. 4 through Nov. 10, versus the previous week saw a nearly 400% increase in inquiries from U.S. nationals, according to new data NBC…

Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted a long-running television show before pivoting to politics.

Many Senate Republicans want the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz to be released. Gaetz is a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump.

The House speaker Johnson told “Fox News Sunday” that “we’ll have to see how this develops” when asked whether he’d let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.

Matt Gaetz is president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. attorney general.

Kennedy is Trump’s pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.

Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.

Johnson said that it would be a “terrible breach of protocol” if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.

Former Georgia congressman Doug Collins is a former member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command who fought in the Iraq War.