New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) faces five charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday morning. For at least a decade as the Brooklyn borough president, Adams “sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople and
A judge on Thursday unsealed a federal indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams accusing him of taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. Adams’s residence was searched earlier in the day. Adams faces five criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, prosecutors said in the indictment. Adams is accused of accepting
Harris silent on her 2019 pledge to ‘get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal’ (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Vice President Kamala Harris, who this week pledged to suspend the Senate filibuster to pass abortion legislation, won’t say if she will do the same to pass the multitrillion-dollar progressive Green New Deal, a
The senators said they were following through on the surgeon general’s call to create a warning label for social media platforms. Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) introduced a bill on Sept. 24 requiring social media platforms to carry mental health warning labels. The Stop the Scroll Act is a bipartisan effort to
The court found Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz are not qualified to appear on the November ballot. Votes in Georgia for third-party presidential candidates Cornel West, an independent, and Claudia De la Cruz, a socialist, will not count because the two are not qualified to appear on the ballot, the Supreme Court of
Inspector General Michael Horowitz said he is currently reviewing a draft of the report and hopes it will be ready before Jan. 20, 2025. A report detailing an investigation into the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, will not be ready before the November presidential election, the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general said
The Secretary of State’s chief of staff said that the agency is now confident that the rolls have been fully vetted and the 2024 election won’t be affected. Nearly two weeks after discovering that hundreds of noncitizens registered to vote in Oregon, more details emerged in testimony before state lawmakers on Sept. 25. Oregon’s automatic