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To be a political leader is to be a showman, and there’s hardly a greater showman on the world stage than Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who delivered...

New Yorkers certainly expect some level of grubby populism from their elected officials — that’s just politics, after all — but even by thos...

Progressives in New York, including some members of the state Senate Democratic conference, seem to think that Gov. Hochul has nominated a r...

Aiken, S.C.: ’Tis the season to be jolly, as the song goes, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. We are a people divided.

The tweet spotlights the bitter opposition to helping Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion in the MAGA wing of the Republican...

After months of delay and infighting, a $1.7 trillion spending package passed in the Senate on Thursday with last-second amendments to exten...

The former White House aide said attorney Stefan Passatino suggested she should falsely claim not to remember things about the attack on the...

The Democrat-led Legislature returned to Albany to vote on a measure increasing their own salaries from $110,000 to $142,000 — making senato...

Santos has said he is an openly gay, self-made Republican whose Jewish grandparents fled the Holocaust. So far, no one has questioned the Re...

If approved by the Democrat-led Senate, LaSalle would be the first Latino to lead the Court of Appeals and serve as head administrator for t...

Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said both sides agreed to a deal that should allow final passage later in the day, though any on...

The mayor’s announcement of involuntary removal of those suffering from severe mental illness, who present a danger to themselves or others,...

The most impactful leaders in tech and government know that setbacks often precede breakthroughs in progress and innovation. Some of the mos...

After months of pleading with the feds for some intervention to contend with the operational issues caused by the arrival of thousands of as...

We talk a lot in these pages about self-determination, whether it be for the people of Iran, China, Ukraine or elsewhere where the preferenc...

Carl Heastie, speaker of the Assembly, could have pushed through a lame-duck pay raise for 150 Assembly members and 63 state senators the ri...

Tarrytown, N.Y.: I used to be a salesperson covering the five boroughs from 1990-2010. Part of our monthly expense account went to the diffe...

Mayor Adams’ suggestion that City Council members use funding typically reserved for their own pet causes drew strong pushback from electeds...

Adams gave himself the high mark during a meeting with the Daily News editorial board, noting that he had much to overcome in his first year...

Adams' detractors have argued that his heavy emphasis on violent crime handed Republicans a ready-made issue during this year’s governor’s a...

Under existing law, parents have the right to know the allegations against them of abuse or neglect, speak with an attorney, and refuse to l...

Chang, who defeated longtime Democratic Assemblyman Peter Abbate last month, testified at a Judiciary Committee hearing held as part of an A...

The extra $1 billion falls short of solving the projected $3.6 billion shortfall in the fund, it will buy some time to keep the fund afloat...

Contrary to Santos’s claims, his grandparents were actually born in Brazil, not Ukraine, and could not have escaped the Nazis during their r...

The Astor Place storefront operated by Housing Works, a minority-controlled HIV/AIDS service organization, will open its doors to the pot-sm...