Due to a redistricting snafu, and despite the Democratic Party’s more than two-to-one voter-registration advantage in New York, Democrats are expected to lose at least one of its congressional seats and possibly several more.
New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday, just hours after being indicted on bribery and fraud charges tied to an illegal campaign finance scheme.
Hours after being sworn in as New York’s first female governor, Kathy Hochul delivered her first address, laying out an agenda largely focused on combating the coronavirus pandemic.
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her plans for her upcoming term as governor on Wednesday in her first public appearance since Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation, which occurred a week after an investigation concluded he had sexually harassed 11 women.
Following New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation on Tuesday, his lieutenant, Kathy Hochul, will become the state’s first female governor.
The New York state Assembly will release information about its investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged misconduct as early as later this month. While Cuomo is giving no indication that he plans to step down, some of his top aides are leaving their posts.
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie temporarily stopped voting in the chamber on Tuesday due to concerns over leaks to news media organizations regarding a contentious March 11 meeting of Democratic lawmakers
New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand issued a joint statement Friday calling on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign.
Despite mounting allegations of sexual harassment and assault made against him, the embattled New York governor on Friday rebuffed fresh calls for his resignation from Democratic lawmakers in Congress.
More than 10 members of New York’s Democratic congressional delegation, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jerry Nadler, called on the governor to resign Friday amid mounting claims of sexual harassment against him.
A Democratic New York state lawmaker who accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of threatening him over his criticism of the handling of COVID-19-related nursing home deaths said Friday that support is building within the state legislature to begin an impeachment investigation.
A newly identified variant of the coronavirus has led over 40 countries to impose travel restrictions against the United Kingdom, which registered a record number of daily cases on Tuesday.
The theme of the first night of the Republican National Convention was “America, Land of Promise,” a hopeful message belied by speeches that warned of impending national collapse if Donald Trump isn’t reelected in November.
The New York governor, who has been reluctant to engage with Trump during the crisis, turned the president’s criticisms back on him.
As Trump dismisses the need for specific coronavirus 'metrics,' governors such as Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo are starting to release data-driven plans to ease lockdown restrictions.
The last time New York faced a crisis of this magnitude, Andrew Cuomo almost destroyed his career.
President Trump used his daily coronavirus to attack Democratic governors who in his estimation had shown insufficient gratitude for his administration’s response to the pandemic.
Hours after a Fox News interview in which he downplayed a national shortage of hospital ventilators to treat patients infected with the coronavirus, President Trump fired off a number of tweets Friday blaming General Motors and its CEO, Mary Barra, for not manufacturing more of them.
Caught between a mayor’s indecision and a president’s inattention, the nation’s largest city was left dangerously exposed to the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump has been reluctant to use the Cold War-era Defense Production Act, which allows the president to pressure or even force private industries to produce products deemed necessary for the nation’s defense.
For the past three days, President Trump has publicly embraced the view that the measures taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak should not come at the expense of the U.S. economy.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday explained that a basic problem facing hospitals in the coronavirus outbreak is a shortage of the equipment that helps critically ill people breathe.
The economic impact of the global coronavirus outbreak has begun taking hold in the U.S., with businesses and their employees suddenly confronting a harsh new reality that is predicted to last months.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed his frustration Wednesday with the Trump administration’s failure to provide adequate testing for the coronavirus and said his state would begin contracting with private labs.
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“Streaming is beginning to look an awful lot like the old-fashioned analogue TV it was supposed to replace.”
“Streaming isn’t going away … You’re still going to have a lot of choice for a long time.”
“In the future, [streaming] likely will cost more, have a little less library content and cancel more shows more quickly.”
“Streaming is still a game of content … It’s not a matter of who’s spending more, it’s who’s spending smartly.”
“Streamers are retreating from any sort of creative risk in favor of humdrum, lowest-common-denominator shows.”