Mayor Eric Adams said the Democratic party’s failure to identify immigration as a major concern for voters cost the party in the Nov. 5 election. He said he was “not surprised” by the outcome. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Adams: Dems Misread Mood on Immigration and “Not Surprised” by Republican Gains When asked about Republican gains in the city at a recent press conference, Mayor Eric Adams said, “It doesn’t surprise me”... News 15 Nov 2024 | 03:17
For local Democrats, it may feel like the circus is back in Washington D.C. with Donald Trump ready to ascend to the White House once again. ( Photo: KMJ/Wikimedia Commons) How the Political Landscape Shifts for NYC After Trump Win “It’s tough to make predictions–especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra For those Democrats looking for a silver lining... Voices 15 Nov 2024 | 02:46
A rally at Madison Square Garden planned by Donald Trump on Oct. 27 has stirred controversy from a local Democratic state senator, who said it was akin to a Nazi rally held in the old MSG in 1939. He called on MSG to cancel the event for security reasons. MSG has stayed silent on the matter. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Trump Rally Slated for MSG Stirs Controversy Say this for Donald Trump, he is no captive to conventional campaign thinking. The conventional approach for presidential... News 19 Oct 2024 | 11:41
Reporters with a coveted assigned seat had to arrive around 7 a.m. for the court sessions that started at the earliest around 9:30 a.m. If competing for a seat in the overflow room, however, reporters started arriving as early as 3 a.m. There was a shared camaraderie among journalists on the line. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) Reporting from Inside the Trump Hush Money Trial On the morning of May 30, in a serendipitous gesture, one of the reporters on the press line handed out fortune cookies as... Voices 06 Jun 2024 | 01:41
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Cliffords, is introduced by Andrew Barret Cox, at a viewing party at the Three Dollar Bill for a new documentary about her life entitled “Stormy.” Photo: Marie Pohl Stormy Daniels Storms Into Town Ahead of Latest Trump Trial As the criminal trial against former president Donald Trump inches closer to a start date, one of the principal witnesses... News 23 Mar 2024 | 01:48
Michael D. Cohen, a lawyer once known as Donald Trump’s “fixer” is testifying against him in the civil fraud trial that NYS Attorney General Letitia James is pursuing vs the former president at a downtown Manhattan courthouse. Photo (from 2019): The Circus/You Tube Wikimedia Commons Cohen, Former Trump “Fixer” Testifies at Fraud Trial of Ex-President in NY Trial (AP)–Donald Trump`s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen faced off with him at the former president`s civil fraud trial Tuesday,... News 25 Oct 2023 | 01:03
Donald Trump said he is being unfairly targeted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James in the business fraud trial that began on Oct. 2 and could last until December. Photo: Michael Vadon/Wikimedia Commons Trump at Opening of Fraud Trial Denounces It As a “Scam;” Trial Could Last Until December (AP)–The fraud lawsuit that could cost former President Donald Trump control of some of his most prized properties went... News 03 Oct 2023 | 12:45
Donald Trump is appealing a Judges ruling in his New York Civil Trial which ordered him to place some his companies into receivership in New York due to what was ruled to be years of fraud. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons NY Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud in Building Real Estate Empire (AP)–A judge ruled on Sept. 26 that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted... News 28 Sep 2023 | 12:04
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C on February 10, 2011. ( Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wiki Commons ) Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump in a writer`s sex abuse and defamation case (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s... News 21 Jul 2023 | 03:46
A former federal district court was appointed to hear arguments from attorneys for Donald Trump that the criminal case against his businesses now being prosecuted in NYS court should be transferred to federal district court. Photo: Wikimedia commons. Former Federal Judge to Decide Whether Trump Can Transfer DA’s Criminal Case to Fed Court NEW YORK (AP) A judge known for his care and cautiousness in presiding over litigation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks... News 08 May 2023 | 12:54
One of the lawsuits filed by former magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in which she claims she was raped by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s will go ahead as scheduled on April 25, a Judge ruled, denying a request by Trump’s attorney for a one month “cooling off period.” Trump denies he ever met Carroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Judge: If news taints rape-trial jurors, Trump shares blame NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump’s rape trial will begin next week as scheduled after a federal judge on Monday rejected his... News 18 Apr 2023 | 04:45
Stormy Daniels, who said she was paid $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about a one night stand with Donald Trump, has met with prosecutors in the Manhattan DAs office but has not yet testified before the grand jury that on March 15th heard its second day of testimony from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Photo: © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com, Wikimedia Commons Cohen Gives 2nd Day of Testimony to Grand Jury Probing Trump payments to porn star Stormy Daniels NEW YORK (AP) - The New York grand jury investigating Donald Trump was hearing more testimony Wednesday from Michael Cohen,... News 16 Mar 2023 | 04:08
NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (third from right) describes the clean-up operation at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack in lower Manhattan to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (second from left) on Nov. 14, 2001. Photo: Department of Defense photo by R. D. Ward, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Giuliani’s Fall from America’s Mayor to Trump Sycophant There came a moment when Michael Bromwich began to think this was not the Rudolph Giuliani he had worked with to prosecute... News 31 Dec 2022 | 05:01
Mayor Eric Adams (at podium) and NYS Senator Cordell Cleare (left) delivered remarks. Photo: Abigail Gruskin ‘Gate Of The Exonerated’ Honors Central Park’s ‘Exonerated Five’ Central Park’s entrances bear names intended to represent the people of New York: Scholars’ Gate, Artists’ Gate, Engineers’... News 20 Dec 2022 | 05:00
Poster for Max Marie’s performance at The Delancey. Photo: Diana Yee NY Life – Court by Day, Club by Night She sings the songs and writes them, too – She’s Max Marie, a NYC-based independent artist whose soulful energetic pop sound... Voices 06 Nov 2022 | 01:47
