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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio chose MSNBC’s Morning Joe to announce that he was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race – and very quickly was mocked by President Donald Trump for his ill-fated White House bid. “Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, @…

Con Edison had to cut power to some 30,000 New York City customers on Sunday night, most of them in the Brooklyn borough. As of 10:30 PM Eastern time, the outside temperature was still 87 degrees. The move to cut power was announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, allegedly so that Con Ed could "make repairs and prevent a…

Bill Maher says there’s “overcrowding” among the Democratic presidential field and some of the candidates should "get the f*ck out." He weighed in on this week’s two-night Democratic debate and said time’s up for half of the 20 candidates who qualified for the match-up. "Look, there's too many people in this race…

UPDATED with quotes from news conference, 1:02 PM: A helicopter has crashed onto the roof of a midtown Manhattan high rise building at 51st Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, in rainy conditions and what looks to be a forced landing. The neighborhood, just north of Times Square, is home to various media…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who last week became the 23rd Democrat to announce a bid for the 2020 presidential nomination, is shrugging off the jeers of late-night TV comedians and the city tabloids. In an appearance Tuesday morning on CNN’s New Day (watch it above and below), the candidate was shown in split…

Ronan Farrow took a swipe at the controversial last season of HBO's Game of Thrones as he hosted the Peabody Awards, an annual celebration of electronic media's deep dives into weighty topics from race and gender inequality, to mental illness, plastic pollution and ISIS. "Why did Daenerys go so crazy?" Farrow griped…

Amazon has ditched its plan to build a new headquarters in New York City, opting instead to proceed with its “HQ2” site in Northern Virginia and additional expansion in Nashville and 17 corporate offices in the U.S. and Canada. The decision means an estimated 25,000 jobs, generating $27 billion in economic benefit…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio aren’t often on the same page, but the two political leaders have gotten in sync to implore Amazon to make good on plans to build a new headquarters in Queens. The “HQ2” project — split with Virginia after a year-long competition among 234 cities…

Update, with video Are Americans beginning to accept the reality of climate change? Bill Maher sees a “tiny glimmer of hope,” the host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher said tonight. “Half of Americans say the science is more convincing than it was five years ago,” Maher said, “which is f*cking stupid but I’ll take…

While the Democrats running New York state (Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and New York City (Mayor Bill DiBlasio) celebrated the city’s selection by Amazon to co-host the company’s new headquarters, many other Democrats are not rolling out a welcome mat. The tech giant today confirmed picking New York’s Long Island City as well…

The usual suspects showed up to hold a presser in New York City about what appears to be alive explosive device sent to former CIA chief John Brennan at CNN’s New York HQ. It has been removed from the Time Warner building on Columbus Circle, but an envelope containing white powder also inside the package is still…

It was one year ago Wednesday that American politics were shaken to the core with the stunning upset victory for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. Fast-forward 12 months and the Democrats have some renewed swagger, winning two governorships by big margins as voters thumbed their noses at extreme nationalism. The Dems…