Category: USA News

As a lawyer at the Justice Department, and later at accountability nonprofits, I’ve had a front row seat to ever-expanding interpretations of executive authority used to justify things like torture, secret mass…

Comptroller-elect Mark Levine is ready for the runway. Levine, the current Manhattan borough president, will take over as city fiscal watchdog. [ more › ]

Mikie Sherrill The Democratic congressmember won the closely-watched race that turned brutally vitriolic. [ more › ]

Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani voted in Astoria Tuesday morning. New York City voters elected Mamdani as the first South Asian and the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history. […

People wait in line to vote in the General Election at the Brooklyn Public Library on November 04, 2025 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. With…

Enrollment in city public schools has dropped. Roughly 884,400 students enrolled in the system this fall, down about 2.4% from 906,248 last year. [ more › ]

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani holds his ballot and privacy sleeve Tuesday. He may be the world’s richest man, but he’s definitely from out of town [ more ›…

Johnathan Warren insists his high-flying hobby is perfectly lega. The arrest of a daredevil who flew near the Verrazzano Bridge has big implications for the city’s nascent recreational aviation scene. [ more…

An election worker at a Jersey City poll site on Nov. 4, 2025 The city sits across from Manhattan and is one of NJ’s largest. [ more › ]

People wait for the start of food distribution at New York Common Pantry on October 30, 2025 in New York City. It’s unclear when or whether the Trump administration will pay November…