New York

President Donald Trump will campaign with Republican Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse on Oct. 9, taking the governor's race to the region where Gov. Kathy Hochul looks most vulnerable. The visit was first reported by a source familiar with the planning and would be Trump's first trip to Syracuse since taking office. He is also weighing […]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has the federal security clearance he waited nine months to get, days after welcoming President Donald Trump to Gracie Mansion. "I have my security clearance now," Mamdani told reporters Wednesday at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn. The clearance lets him review classified documents. Until now, he relied on NYPD briefings. The […]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out the city's first municipal antisemitism strategy Tuesday, but left out a formal definition of the term and drew immediate pushback over his rhetoric on Israel. The plan totals $26 million. It includes $6.4 million for community groups, $1 million for synagogue security, $2 million for the Queens Holocaust Memorial and […]

Rep. Mike Lawler used Monday night's first televised debate to put Democrat Cait Conley on the defensive over where she lives and who pays her. Lawler told viewers Conley lives in Virginia, holds no-show" jobs with artificial intelligence and Big Tech firms, and will head home if she loses in November. He also pressed her […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) spent the weekend in Buffalo and Ithaca building a political footprint far beyond her Queens and Bronx base, and her own words suggest a 2028 Senate run is a live option. The New York City Democrat met privately with Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan, held a joint press conference with him, and […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his Thursday address to the United Nations General Assembly to directly confront New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, telling world leaders that Jewish residents "no longer feel safe" in the city under his leadership. Netanyahu's remarks, delivered during the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in Manhattan, came […]

A pro-Trump seniors group named four northeastern lawmakers to its first-ever class of congressional honorees, recognizing their records on issues affecting older Americans. Seniors Matter for America announced this week that Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Rep. Mike Kelly (PA-16), and Rep. Nick Langworthy (NY-23) have each earned its Champion for America's […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul still leads Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman heading into November, but her advantage has been steadily eroding for months, according to the latest Siena poll of likely New York voters. The survey shows Hochul at 50 percent to Blakeman's 41 percent, a nine-point race that continues a clear downward trend for the incumbent […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Earlier in the month, President Donald Trump warned voters that democratic socialists — extreme, crazed, lunatics, he called them — were threatening to transform America into “a communist country.” This week, a smiling Trump patted on the shoulder one of the nation's best known democratic socialists, shook his hand, and said he was […]

In a move that stunned Capitol Hill and infuriated House Democratic leadership, Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) endorsed Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) for re-election on Monday, marking one of the most consequential bipartisan breaks of the midterm cycle. Golden, who announced last November he would not seek re-election, made his case in an op-ed published […]

President Trump lavished praise on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a surprisingly warm joint appearance at Gracie Mansion this week, telling reporters the democratic socialist has "great potential" to be a strong mayor. "I want what's good for New York, I want what's good for the country," Trump said, adding, "I want him […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani again called on the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, branding the visiting head of state a "war criminal" as Netanyahu prepares to address the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan. Mamdani has repeated the demand since acknowledging in July that his own administration […]

Rep. Mike Lawler is escalating his attacks on Democratic challenger Cait Conley, accusing his opponent of being a political outsider and linking her to some of New York’s most prominent Democratic figures. Lawler, the Republican incumbent representing New York’s 17th Congressional District, has sought to tie Conley to Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and […]

Democrat socialist Claire Valdez is facing calls for a federal review after the New York congressional candidate said she would carry the “fight” of Mexico’s independence movement with her into Congress. Valdez, the Democratic nominee seeking to replace retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez in New York’s 7th Congressional District, made the comments in a post highlighting […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul's $1 billion in energy rebate checks start going out Sept. 21, six weeks before Election Day, and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman is already treating them as a target. The checks are headed to 8.2 million eligible households. Individual filers earning under $150,000 get $100, and couples filing jointly can receive up to […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is donating $300,000 to New York Democrats and taking her campaign show to Syracuse, Utica and Buffalo ahead of the midterms. The money goes to a state fund controlled by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Ocasio-Cortez said New York has become central to the fight for a House majority and that she will go […]

New York City's public school system opened this fall with roughly 2,000 students, the overwhelming majority of them children with disabilities, lacking assigned bus service on day one, according to the advocacy group Advocates for Children of New York. Nearly 200 yellow bus routes faced delays or outright cancellations as classes began this month, with the […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is putting another roadblock in front of the state’s growing data-center industry, this time urging communities to demand at least $1 million from developers for every megawatt of electricity their projects are expected to consume. The announcement comes just two months after Hochul imposed what became the nation’s first statewide […]