Bill de Blasio

Entrepreneur and former Democratic Party presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, has filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, Campaign Finance Board confirmed Wednesday. Per New York Daily News, in the Democratic primaries, Yang will compete against former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire, former Housing and Urban Development Department secretary Shaun Donovan, City Councilman Ron […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday that nine of the city’s neighborhoods would be re-closing due to a surge in coronavirus cases, The New York Times reported. According to de Blasio, the “rewind” will hit regions that have experienced a testing positivity rate of over 3 percent across the last seven […]

A video showing a protester being detained and pulled into an unmarked minivan on the streets of Manhattan has prompted the New York Police Department (NYPD) to issue a statement defending their actions, The New York Times reported. The incident occurred on Tuesday and drew comparisons to similar instances of protesters being rounded up by […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared on CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning to discuss his decision on Tuesday to cut the budget of the NYPD by $1 billion. Speaking to host John Berman, de Blasio said the funding will be diverted to youth and social services, community summer programs, and education, per Axios. […]

During a press conference on Sunday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he would be cutting funding to the New York City Police Department and diverting that money to social service programs, The New York Times reported. The announcement comes in the midst of protests against police brutality that have filled New […]

A video posted on social media on Saturday showed a New York Police Department SUV driving into a crowd of protesters, sparking outrage across the country. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio says that he sympathizes with the officers, who he says were placed in an “impossible” situation. “I’m not gonna blame officers who are trying […]

During his final speech in Nevada, delivered after the Democratic caucuses, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg took aim at Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Per The Hill, echoing earlier attacks, Buttigieg accused Sanders of believing “in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.” “I […]

Tucker Carlson had some fighting words for Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, with the politico accusing the former New York City mayor of trying to “buy” votes, according to Fox News. Carlson’s assertions come as new data shows Bloomberg climbing to nearly 15 percent in the national polls, after spending around half a billion dollars […]

Former Democratic presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, recently slammed candidate Michael Bloomberg, who has been rising in the polls following a massive television ad spending spree. “It’s important for people to understand what’s happening here,” de Blasio said Monday on CNN […]

A man who has been arrested 139 times thanked New York for getting rid of its bail laws that likely would have kept him in police custody, reports The New York Daily News. The man behind the taunts, Charles Barry, has already been arrested six times in 2020. A new law went into effect on […]

Though Andrew Yang suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, many politiocs — including presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg — are hoping his public service aspirations are far from over. According to The New York Post, the Bloomberg team dropped hints that they were eyeing Yang as one of their picks for the next New […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was steaming mad over the prices Domino’s was charging to New Year’s Eve revelers desperate for food. As the New York Post reported, a Domino’s pizzeria in Midtown Manhattan was caught selling pizzas for $30 each to the thousands who were penned in to watch the ball drop […]

After a series of shocking anti-Semitic attacks in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is speaking out about a culture of hatred in the country that he says stems in part from the leadership in Washington. Without mentioning President Donald Trump specifically, de Blasio said that the country is in a “crisis” that must […]

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani are speeding up the impeachment process, Newsweek reports. The one-time presidential candidate in the 2020 race made the remarks on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show. “I feel like if Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani […]

Tech entrepreneur and 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang took the expected amount of usual flak during and after Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate in Houston, Texas, but some of that criticism came from one of his opponents who wasn’t even there. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Yang out on social media after […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went after Donald Trump on Thursday, challenging the president to a debate and warning him that he wouldn’t be welcome back in the city once he leaves office. De Blasio appeared at a Buzzfeed News event where he claimed that Trump didn’t “understand the city” and called on […]

Mayor of New York City and Democratic presidential candidate, Bill de Blasio, blasted on Saturday fellow Democrat Beto O’Rourke, Politico reports. The New York mayor took to social media to accuses the Texas Democrat of using “lazy fear mongering tactics” to discredit Medicare for All, a single-payer health care plan championed by progressives such as […]

Bill de Blasio may have an impressive understanding of Spanish. Unfortunately, his knowledge of history is not quite as vast, say critics who have blasted the New York mayor for quoting Communist firebrand Che Guevara, per The Miami Herald. Though Che Guevara has been romanticized in far left circles, many Cuban-Americans still view the man […]

On Thursday, Donald Trump tweeted a video recorded aboard Air Force One, in which he criticized the decision of New York mayor Bill de Blasio to run for the presidency. Calling him “the worst mayor in the history of New York City,” Trump posted the campaign-related video on his way to New York to attend […]

Whoopi Goldberg was not at a loss for words upon hearing about a Democratic bid for the office of President of the United States by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Goldberg, who has been an outspoken critic of many of the mayor’s policies, relayed her strong opinions on what she felt was wrong […]

New York City’s 58-year-old Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday became the 24th candidate to enter the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination, and his candidacy was only 33 minutes old before Donald Trump took to Twitter to launch a barrage of insults at the second-term mayor, in which Trump dismissed de Blasio as a […]

The very crowded Democratic presidential field got even more crowded Thursday, with the official announcement that Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, is running for president. De Blasio, who was first elected mayor of the nation’s largest city in 2013, announced the campaign in a video, and then gave his first interview, […]

Another hat is about to be tossed into the ring for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. According to the New York Daily News, four sources are claiming that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is going to announce his candidacy for president next week. Mayor de Blasio has previously been open in toying with the […]

A 22-year old mother from Connecticut died after falling down the stairs at a New York subway station. It is reported that the fall happened while she was struggling to carry her young child down the stairs in her stroller. The New York Daily News reports that Malaysia Goodson was unconscious at the bottom of […]

Former President Barack Obama has certainly left his legacy in the world, as his name is affixed to animals, schools, and streets across the United States, and even in other places in the world. Now, the Hill reports, a new petition is looking to add yet another addition to the long list of things that […]

Regular voters in New York City were confused this past week when they received a mailer from the city indicating that they were, in fact, inactive voters. “You were marked as an inactive voter by the New York City Board of Elections, but you may still be eligible to vote in the upcoming election,” the […]

The New York Times article still has game-changing potential, according to Business Insider. The eight-page article details many issues of tax evasion, and at one point it accuses the president of the United States of “outright fraud.” The trouble is, there’s a very short statute of limitations on tax crimes. Though Trump is accused of […]

Bill de Blasio was caught in the firing line yesterday after Donald Trump berated the New York City mayor on Twitter, exclaiming that he had “no imagination,” and criticizing him for blatant thievery after the president suggested that de Blasio stole his own campaign slogan of “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” According to Fox News, a […]

According to CNN, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized Fox News and other news outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the country would be better off if Murdoch left the industry. Appearing on CNN‘s Reliable Sources with host Brian Stelter on Sunday, de Blasio insisted that Murdoch’s news outlets, like Fox News […]

The Associated Press obtained a letter Wednesday from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alleging that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexican border last month. The letter claims that de Blasio and his security detail violated immigration laws by crossing the El Paso, Texas, border on foot. On June 21, […]

Last week, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon joined the “Abolish ICE” movement, and now two more voices from the Empire state have added their support. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have gone on the record calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “I […]

Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon is known for playing Miranda Hobbes, a hard-working, dedicated lawyer, in the successful HBO series, Sex and the City. Since the series ended, Nixon has kept busy with acting, having won another Emmy for her role in Law and Order: SVU, voice-acting, and winning a Grammy for Best Spoken Word […]

New details are coming to light in what New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called New York’s “deadliest” blaze in decades. As the Inquisitr reported yesterday, a fire broke out in a 100-year-old apartment building in New York City’s Bronx neighborhood around 7 p.m. last night. The blaze quickly escalated into a four-alarm […]

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton would have been forced to resign if the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal had happened in 2017, according to New York City’s mayor, Bill De Blasio. Monica Lewinsky was a 22-year-old intern in Bill Clinton’s White House between 1995 and 1996. Lewinsky shot to fame in 1998 when a sex scandal […]

Bill De Blasio has been re-elected for a second term as New York City mayor defeating Republican candidate Malliotakis by receiving 66 percent of the vote to Malliotakis’ 28 percent. His re-election campaign focused on the continuation of his policies from his first term in office. One of de Blasio’s successful policies was the creation […]

A member of the Young Democrats and a staffer of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was found to be in possession of thousands of child porn pictures and videos, according to the New York Post. Police officers allegedly cuffed 29-year-old Jacob Schwartz on charges related to the disturbing imagery on Thursday, which was […]

Former Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is reportedly mulling a return to active politics by running for mayor of New York City, it has been claimed. Rumors that Clinton could be considering a New York City mayoral run first emerged in January, weeks after her political career suffered a major setback when she was […]

The New York Police have noticed a surge in hate crimes and have placed the blame for this on President Donald Trump, with Mayor Bill de Blasio saying that the increase in hate crimes is because of Trump’s rhetoric. There have been skyrocketing hate crimes over the past few months in New York, with much […]

Neera Tanden, the long-time confidante to Hillary Clinton, made an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. Amid swirling speculations that the former Secretary of State and first lady was mulling a run for New York City mayor, Tanden made it clear that she does not expect Clinton to […]

Hillary Clinton will not run for mayor of New York City, according to a close ally. Speculation has mounted in recent days that Clinton was considering returning to politics in her native New York, but a friend of the Clintons told CNN that would not happen. Neera Tanden, a friend of Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s […]

It’s time for the Clintons to tap out. If the rumors are true and Hillary Clinton is thinking about running against the unpopular incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio, Secretary Clinton should strongly reconsider — or risk traversing the dark and lonely path like Rahm Emanuel. Apparently, the Clintons are not done with American politics. At […]

Speculation has been swirling around Hillary Clinton’s plans for the future ever since she lost the election to Donald Trump in November, and some people are starting to talk that a 2017 run for mayor of New York is a very real possibility. New York holds its election for mayor on November 7, 2017. The […]

Two sleeping sisters died Wednesday after sustaining severe burns from a faulty radiator in their apartment in New York, New York Times is reporting. Ibanez Ambrose, 2, and Scylee Ambrose, 1, were found unconscious in a temporary housing apartment for homeless people in the South Bronx. When emergency responders arrived at the first-floor residence, they […]

Kanye West’s birthday yesterday saw him and wife Kim Kardashian celebrating his 39 years in the best way they know how, by posting a message of love on a mobile app. Other Kardashian family members followed by posting messages on their own apps, and Kris Jenner took the message all the way to Instagram. Perhaps […]

Hillary Clinton’s appearance at a posh NYC charity dinner Saturday night took a controversial turn. During a skit with Mayor Bill DeBlasio and African-American Broadway actor Leslie Odom, Jr., Clinton participated in what many believe is a racially offensive exchange. One might refer to it as one in a long line of instances of Hillary’s […]

Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio are in hot water for a staged joke that has struck some observers as being racially insensitive, MSN is reporting. On Saturday night, Clinton and de Blasio were attending the Inner Circle dinner, a black-tie charity event where members of New York’s press community and political elite spend the […]

A crane collapsed in New York on Friday morning, killing at least one person, according to USA Today. The Associated Press reported that the crash happened around 8:25 a.m. in the Tribeca neighborhood, just 10 blocks away from the World Trade Center. Even early in the morning, New York City is a busy place, and […]

Donald Trump has a knack for rubbing folks the wrong way. Count New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in that bunch, as the duly elected leader of metropolis found it incumbent to comment on one of the Donald’s most outrageous comments to date despite the fact that his city is currently in the grip […]

New York residents and politicians are raging against the rapists that attacks a teenage girl and her father in a Brownsville playground on Thursday. At around 9 p.m. on Thursday, an 18-year-old girl and her father were at the Osborn Playground in Brownsville, New York, when they were approached by five men. According to the […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order to protect homeless people from freezing in the cold as the temperature finally drops this winter. Homeless people are not automatically accepted, or made to go into shelters in communities just because the weather might kill them. Cuomo has seen an increase in the homeless […]