By the time Ras Baraka was released, a mini-movement had formed after armed federal officers got involved in a scrum with ...

Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain took control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on Tuesday and appointed an official who reports to the court to run it.

In ever City municipal election since 1989, the city Campaign Finance Board tries to protect its rules and a level playing ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Tuesday that he is placing a hold on all political nominees for ...

Decades before Jeanine Pirro became a co-host of Fox News’s “The Five,” cable’s highest-rated news show, she was a respected ...

On a cool evening in early May, emissaries for 11 of Europe’s finest prep schools mingled with the Upper East Side set at the ...

A super PAC supporting Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani has reported raising just under $106,000 in the last seven weeks. But ...

Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in “Coriolanus” and other plays. A ...

Trump and congressional Republicans are hoping beyond hope that Rep. Stephen Lynch becomes the ranking Democrat on the ...

Bringing an aesthetic eye to the work of securing a shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Sam Fleischner’s film highlights ...

Voters can choose as many as five candidates, in order of preference. On election night, the first-choice votes are tabulated ...

The Senate Democratic leader plans to demand answers on Qatari influence in the United States and call for testimony from the ...