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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NEW YORK — The City Council’s latest tax revenue projection, released Wednesday, predicts the city will net $2.6 billion more in tax revenue than a separate recent budget plan from Mayor Eric Adams’ office.

The new Council projection estimates the city will gain the revenue in property, personal income and business taxes over the current ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new immigration policy adopted by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors was supposed to stop jails from working with federal immigration officials, a move that would potentially hinder President-elect Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations.

But the county is now locked in a standoff in what could be a preview of local...Read more

Russian authorities detained an Uzbekistan national on suspicion of killing a top general in a Moscow bomb attack, and said he’d been recruited by Ukrainian security services to carry out the assassination.

The detainee was promised $100,000 and safe passage to a European country if he helped plant the explosive device that killed Lieutenant...Read more

Israel’s deputy foreign minister said Syria’s new leaders are “wolves in clothes of sheep,” who are trying to persuade the world they are not radical Islamists — but her government isn’t convinced.

“We’re not fooled by many of the conversations and interviews of those rebel groups who are, in fact, terrorist groups,” Sharren ...Read more

Turkey-backed forces are aiming to capture more territory in northern Syria from Kurdish groups, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter, a move that could stir tensions with the U.S.

Turkey and the Syrian National Army, which is funded and advised by Ankara, are taking advantage of the collapse of the Assad regime, the people ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jennifer Wexton made a little more history Tuesday in her final speech on the House floor.

The Virginia Democrat, who is retiring from Congress after announcing last year that she had been diagnosed with a severe neurological disorder, delivered her farewell remarks with the assistance of an augmentative and alternative ...Read more

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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Tens of thousands of minorities fearing persecution have fled Syria since its takeover by the Sunni Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham on Dec. 8, 2024.

While the group has promised to respect all ethnic and religious minorities under its rule, human rights advocates have urged caution. They cite the Islamic group’s poor history ...Read more

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