New York State’s policies to reduce carbon emissions to deal with climate change will remain unaltered even after President Trump removed the United States from the Paris Agreement, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.
The New York governor joined with California Gov. Jerry Brown and Washington Gov. Jay...
Out of approximately 50,000 total evening news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC combined in the last four years, just 25 have covered the ongoing crisis in socialist Venezuela, according to a Media Research Center study published Tuesday.
After Venezuela’s former socialist president, Hugo Chávez...
Is all the impeachment talk boomeranging on Maxine Waters?
A constituent filmed an encounter with the California Congresswoman on Monday and the two clashed before Waters declared that a member of Congress couldn’t be impeached.
The constituent, who was unnamed in the video that was posted by...
President Donald Trump has unsettled allies, as well as Americans, Senator John McCain said during a speech in Sydney on the future of U.S. relations with Asia.
McCain -- the chairman of U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 -- said Tuesday that...
A recent poll shows that voters statewide show broad support for holding a constitutional convention, though they have yet to hear interest groups' loud calls for and against holding one. The question will be on the ballot this November.
A Siena College poll released last week shows that 62...
The government in exile — the real one, according to the media — has had a busy week at home and abroad. “President Obama” has given up leading from behind and presumes now to lead from overseas. His secretary of state has a new mission, as missionary to the safe places where snowflakes fall...
Has Nancy Pelosi completely lost her mind? Or does she just have to complain about everything President Trump does?
During a press briefing on Thursday, the House Minority Leader criticized the president’s choice of visiting Saudi Arabia first during his inaugural foreign trip.
“I thought it...
Republican Steve McLaughlin is feeling pretty good about his run for Rensselaer County executive as his campaign released on Thursday a poll that shows him leading fellow Republican Chris Meyer 2-to-1.
The poll conducted by McLaughlin’s campaign by Advantage, Inc., showed the Assembly lawmaker...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive...
The Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members who arrived at the U.S. as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014, a top senator said Wednesday, citing internal documents that showed the teens were shipped to juvenile homes throughout the country.
Sen. Ron...
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum.
According to data from the latest Harvard-Harris poll, which was provided exclusively to The Hill, 65 percent of voters believe there...
There was no dust on Gov. Cuomo’s brogans last week when a self-described crazy man drove into a crowd at Times Square, killing one and scattering the injured all over the pavement.
“He was there like Batman,” one cop told The Post. “He might as well have taken off his shirt and gone around...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) appeared to confuse the National Rifle Association with the National Security Agency during remarks Tuesday at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2017 Fiscal Summit.
While being interviewed by CNN's Dana Bash, Pelosi discussed the ongoing...
Sen. Schumer, I don't live in your constituency but in the larger picture, you live in mine and every other legal, taxpaying American citizen who is affected by the power you hold in your political party, your blind allegiance to it and the obstructionist posture to anything that doesn't...
The feds asked the NYPD to detain 179 illegal immigrants in the first four months of the year — more than double the total number for all of 2016 — but cops balked in each case, police officials said Monday.
“We have complied with zero federal detainer requests this year,’’ Police Commissioner...
Monday, we're looking into why our New York State Senators miss so many of their committee meetings that we pay them to go to. Their attendance is so bad all of them would be called to the principal's office.
Last year the average committee attendance for the State Senate was 35 percent.
In...
Gov. Cuomo swooped into Times Square “like Batman” minutes after Thursday’s fatal rampage there, irking NYPD brass.
“The governor was there almost instantaneously. It was outrageous,” a senior law-enforcement source said. “He was there like Batman. He might as well have taken off his shirt and...
Have you heard that one about how Trump made New York a socialist paradise?
Relax, take a toke, and flash back to what the mayor told me in 2016 about his vision for creating “the maximum progressive policy of state”:
“(T)his could be like California, where Democrats have consolidated power...
George Soros has all but bought another district attorney’s seat.
The left-wing billionaire turned the Philadelphia district attorney’s race on its head by giving $1.45 million to fund a super PAC in support of his preferred candidate, Larry Krasner. Krasner, a progressive lawyer who has never...
TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 17-year-old woman is facing 15 charges after police in the town of Tonawanda said she attempted to hold up a bingo game at local a Catholic school.
The weekly Saturday bingo game had just gotten underway May 6 at Cardinal O’Hara High School, when the young...
While NBC and CNN joined the rest of the media in rushing to condemn the Trump White House over an unconfirmed Washington Post report that the President inadvertently shared classified information with Russian officials, guests on both networks provided important context that the Obama...
More than 50 percent of New York City residents want Gov. Cuomo to run for president in 2020, a new poll shows.
Mayor de Blasio, on the other-hand, should probably think twice about throwing his hat into the ring — seeing how nearly 60 percent of city residents said they would not want him to...
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst, went on FOX Business Network on Monday to discuss allegations Senator Rand Paul and another senator were under surveillance by the Obama administration.
Napolitano also dropped a bomb on the Obama administration spying on the US...
So patently corrupt are lulus, the bonus cash payments that Albany legislative bosses hand out to favored members, that the state Senate has 87 such leadership posts, each with a lulu, ranging from $41,500 per year down to $9,000.
There are only 63 senators.
No wonder this practice of...
Violence and intimidation against Republicans are quickly becoming the new normal in an increasingly tense political climate.
In one of the most recent incidents, police in Tennessee charged a woman with felony reckless endangerment on Thursday for allegedly trying to run Republican Congressman...
The non-profit organization formed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his political allies won’t register to lobby or become a lobbying entity.
That’s according to Steve Cohen, a board member of the group New Yorkers United Together and a former secretary to the governor.
The group last week...
Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, offered high praise for Sen. John McCain on Friday, saying the Arizona Republican's vocal criticism of President Trump marks his "finest hour."
"I think frankly this is John McCain's finest hour," Schiff said on...
Seven state senators received thousands of dollars in questionable stipends earmarked for committee chairmen even though they don’t head any of the panels payroll documents say they do.
The revelations have prompted calls for criminal investigations from two government reform groups.
"Let's...
University of California Santa Cruz administrators recently agreed to meet to all four demands lodged by a black student group who commandeered a campus building and would not leave until their conditions were met.
But in addition to the four initial stipulations, the group made three other...
While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to her husband’s charitable foundation despite federal ethics laws that require government officials to recuse themselves from matters that could impact their spouse’s business...
Nancy Pelosi’s bizarre behavior is now reaching an international audience.
While leading a Congressional delegation to visit the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, North India on Tuesday, the House Minority Leader was seen stuttering, repeating words, calling China “Tina,” and telling a joke that...
This city’s police officers have been warned of the increasing use by gang members of rifles able to pierce police body armor, after a spate of shootings with assault-style weapons.
On Sunday, two men armed with assault-style rifles shot 10 people, police said. The victims, two of whom died...
The Republican-led state Senate, for the fourth consecutive session, passed legislation to crack down on violent gangs — but Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie shot it down.
The bill comes amid a wave of violence by the MS-13 gang, which has menaced suburban Long Island and other areas...
State Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is the latest state leader opposing a push for a convention to make changes to the state constitution.
“While the intent of one may be good, the reality is much different,” Stewart-Cousins told the Daily News Monday. “In this...
ACLU Lawyer Says Travel Ban ‘Could Be Constitutional’ if Enacted by Hillary Clinton
ACLU Lawyer Omar Jadwat, arguing against President Trump’s travel ban before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, admitted that the same exact travel ban “could be” constitutional if it were enacted by...
In late March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made something of a splash: He announced that his office had hired or promoted 27 people, nearly half of whom were veterans of either former President Barack Obama's administration or Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign.
The news sparked...
Jean Pierre Planchart, a year old, has the drawn face of an old man and a cry that is little more than a whimper. His ribs show through his skin. He weighs just 11 pounds.
His mother, Maria Planchart, tried to feed him what she could find combing through the trash—scraps of chicken or potato...
Something ugly is happening to the First Amendment. It is being contorted to enable judges to protest Donald Trump's presidency. The perennial impulse of judges to manipulate the law to achieve morally and politically desirable ends has only been exacerbated by the felt necessity to "resist"...
Presidential politics appears to have played a role in more people seeking handgun permits in New York last year.
Gun owners' fear of a Hillary Clinton presidency may have helped spur a spike in pistol permits issued in the Empire State in 2016, increasing 34 percent from the 2012 presidential...
Liberals are salivating at the idea of taxing cars by the distance they travel, to better rake in money for their nefarious purposes. In California, they are taking the idea one step farther, planning to tax space rockets by the mile as well.
According to the proposal, California will collect...
Congratulations, parents of New York: Your kids will soon get a lot smarter — at least, that’s what you’ll be
The State Education Department is watering down its K-12 standards, though it will never admit it. Commissioner MaryEllen Elia got the ball rolling by publicly introducing draft...
I can’t tell if the Democrats are drooling in anticipation at the prospects of defeating an enfeebled Donald Trump infested Republican Party in 2018 and 2020, or are terrified that Trump and the Republicans will again defeat them despite governmental incompetence and contempt for their own...
f Gov. Cuomo is serious about a 2020 run for president, he might want to forego a reelection campaign in 2018, various Democratic officials and political operatives say.
Not seeking a third term would allow Cuomo to finish his second at the end of 2018 and immediately throw himself fully into a...
Savor the irony: Progressive politicians like Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo are freaking out over a key way President Trump’s tax reform would soak the 1 percent.
Trump wants to end the federal deduction for state and local taxes — while doubling the standard deduction and ending the...
A former Mount Vernon firefighter who is a half-brother of city Mayor Richard Thomas was spared prison time on federal gun charges.
Henry Thomas, 46, was sentenced Wednesday to time served and probation and ordered to forfeit $55,000. He had faced up to 75 years in prison, although federal...
Known as a Breathalyzer for distracted drivers, emerging technology that can detect actions on a smartphone is being promoted by lawmakers.
Supporters of the technology gathered at the state Capitol this week to demonstrate the new tools and promote a legislative proposal to allow police to...
Social conservatives are ecstatic with the job President Donald Trump has done so far, Politico reported.
In his first 100 days, Trump has tackled issues important to the group, including steering funding away from Planned Parenthood, cutting off funding for international not-for-profit...
The judge who struck down a Trump administration crackdown on sanctuary cities is a hard-core Democrat activist whose life has been steeped in liberal politics since childhood.
Judge William Orrick III, 63, who on Tuesday blocked the administration from withholding federal funds from cities...
Like her mother before her, Chelsea Clinton appears to be creating a cottage industry for herself in receiving random awards for her unparalleled contributions to society, scintillating takes on current events, and incredibly generous heart.
Not content with just her Variety-sponsored...