NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign provided records last month to address more than $2 million in financial discrepancies flagged in an audit of its operations, but his team also left a number of suspected violations unresolved, including a question about payments to two top aides, the Daily News has learned.

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Prominent politicians have recently increased their attacks on workplace programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. They claim that initiatives that seek to be inclusive are divisive and lack merit.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to ban DEI from federal offices. And Vice President-elect JD Vance, an Ohio ...Read more

The Nixon administration’s enemies list inspired bipartisan revulsion. Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, to “use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”

The revelation of the list’s existence during the Watergate hearings of 1973 provoked ...Read more

In 2024, Gallup reported Americans’ trust in media was at an all-time low.

In 1972, only about 6% of Americans said they had no trust at all in mass media. Between 2020 and 2024, that number teetered between 33% and 39%.

The issue is worse in the United States than in 46 other countries. The decline has made headlines over ...Read more

The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, on Dec. 4, 2024, in New York City, immediately captured national attention. But many people immediately fixated mostly on the manhunt for the assailant, and then on Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect who was charged on Dec. 9 with Thompson’s murder.

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Philadelphia is what’s known as a sanctuary city. While the term has no fixed definition, it usually refers to a city that has declared its refusal to cooperate – or even works at odds – with federal immigration enforcement.

Will living in a sanctuary city safeguard Philly’s roughly 50,000 undocumented immigrants and their ...Read more

As the nation braces for Donald Trump’s second presidential term, advocates across the land are asking President Joe Biden to shield us from the looming threats to women’s safety and reproductive rights. This can be done with just 24 words: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign provided records last month to address more than $2 million in financial discrepancies flagged in an audit of its operations, but his team also left a number of suspected violations unresolved, including a question about payments to two top aides, the Daily News has learned.

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Every American in the armed forces, and any veteran who has served, hopes and prays for peace and stability under the recently reelected, incoming commander in chief. Political leanings are no factor here. We salute and serve because that’s who we are — even as our oaths may soon be tested as the next frontline in the war for America’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators reached agreement on more than $100 billion in emergency relief funding for victims of a series of disasters including back-to-back hurricanes that hit the U.S. Southeast and a bridge collapse in Baltimore.

The disaster aid falls short of the $115 billion President Joe Biden sought in two November ...Read more

A catch-all, end-of-session congressional spending bill will include a commitment from the federal government to paying the full cost of replacing the Key Bridge, according to Maryland’s U.S. senators.

“With the inclusion in the Continuing Resolution of our Baltimore BRIDGE Relief Act, Congress is now committed to covering the full cost of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s struggle for a deal to keep the U.S. government open after Friday is an ominous sign for his shrinking and fractious Republican majority’s ability to push through President-elect Donald Trump’s early priorities.

The House and Senate have agreed to extend government funding into March, but ...Read more

On a good night, Chris Lopez, a bartender and server in Southern California for eight years, can make $200 to $400 in tips.

So when the 31-year-old, who lives in Orange, first heard the news about President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promise of "no tax on tips," he got excited.

"That's a great idea," he thought to himself.

But when he ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The ink has barely dried on the 2024 election results — but already attention has turned to the 2026 cycle, particularly for local House races.

The election last month gave Republicans much to cheer. The GOP swept control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and the House.

But in Orange County, Democrats found more success ...Read more

In his latest step to strike back against media outlets he says have said wronged him, President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against an Iowa pollster and newspaper that he said intentionally skewed a poll against him to try to help Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election.

A legal expert gave the litigation little chance of ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia plans to visit Kyiv next month and would be open to meetings in Moscow if invited, as the incoming administration seeks to end the nearly three-year war.

Keith Kellogg, a retired general who served in national security roles in the first Trump administration, also plans to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden came under fire last week for commuting the remaining sentence of a former Luzerne County judge who was given 17 1/2 years in federal prison for accepting kickbacks to send children to a private prison he helped build.

Biden commuted the sentence of Michael T. Conahan, who was convicted in 2011 for the ...Read more