New York’s left is starting to devour its own as part of a campaign to pressure local Democratic pols to aggressively tax the rich to address the state’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis. A group including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is aligned with US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, currently has...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday reassured Americans that there’s “help” coming to fight the COVID-19 pandemic — saying that promising vaccine candidates have the potential to curb the health crisis. The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said vaccines could soon offer some “serious help” to the nation, which he acknowledged...

Students going home from college for Thanksgiving could create a COVID crisis.

With the dark winter months looming, there’s one glimmer of hope in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Two, to be exact. Vaccine candidates from Pfizer, and its German partner BioNTech, and Moderna have shown to be 95 percent effective in ongoing trials. The promising results have prompted Pfizer to seek approval from the Federal...

Police and activists clashed in South Africa Friday during a protest against a graduation party allegedly organized for “whites only.” Nearly 2,000 members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical left political party, rallied around Brackenfell High School in Cape Town as police fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowd, Al Jazeera reported....

A look at the latest national political stories for Friday, November 20.

A Los Angeles police sergeant who was repeatedly reprimanded over social media posts, including those about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and rapper Nipsey Hussle, has accused his superiors of punishing based on his political beliefs.

A Brooklyn deputy borough president and former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss were part of a large, mask-less indoor crowd that celebrated Carlo Scissura of the New York Building Congress.

Gov. Cuomo wants to show you the challenges of directing the state’s fight against a pandemic that has so far killed more than 34,000 New Yorkers and put the rest of us in face masks. “Closing down is not a press release; it’s the most complex government policy we have ever instituted," he writes in his new book, 'American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.'

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci assured the public on Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine would be safe and effective and called for an end to suggestions that the development was rushed for political purposes. “The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did it compromise scientific integrity,” Fauci said Thursday at...

Police arrested three former Hong Kong opposition lawmakers Wednesday for disrupting legislative meetings earlier this year, as China continues to dismantle the city’s guarantees of political autonomy. Eddie Chu, Raymond Chan and Ted Hui were each arrested by Hong Kong police Wednesday morning for splashing pungent liquids and other items during meetings in Hong Kong’s...

Amid the continuous COVID-19 crisis, Giant Food supermarkets has made a giant error in judgment.

This may be Bill Belichick’s most unexpected play call ever. The New England Patriots head coach stepped off the gridiron and into the political field Wednesday, as he demanded the US take action in the recent dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The comments came as he was asked about how Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher...

The First Family will spend Thanksgiving at the White House as President Trump hunkers down for what he wants the public to think is an epic fight for his political life.

Hospitals in Austin, Texas, are taking in non-COVID patients from El Paso to ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed medical facilities amid a massive surge in coronavirus hospitalizations. “We have patients in our hospitals right now from El Paso because there wasn’t room for them in El Paso,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said during...

Saturday’s Thanksgiving-themed event handed out food to about 8,500 families facing financial stress from growing the crisis -- 17 times more people than the annual event usually serves.

The former president accused Trump of putting his own selfish whims ahead of a society grappling with a killer pandemic and an economic crisis.

Biden’s order directs the HealthCare.gov website — which administers partially government-paid coverage through private insurers — to reopen for a “special enrollment period” between Feb. 15 and May 15.

Lefty firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her New York congressional sidekick Rep. Jamaal Bowman are endorsing a massive $50 billion package of state tax hikes on the wealthy to maintain services during the pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis. AOC and Bowman, both Democratic Socialists representing Big Apple districts in DC, are backing a growing progressive insurgency in...

An Arizona sheriff is warning that America will face “scary” consequences thanks to the “political theater” of President Joe Biden’s sweeping executive actions on immigration. Mark Dannels, the sheriff of Cochise County which shares a border with Mexico, said already he’s seen a swell of migrants in the area. “Since the primary ’til now, our...

The move is widely seen as a political maneuver that would allow Guiseppe Conte to build a new coalition.

Former President Donald Trump has officially opened an office in Florida that will serve to continue his political agenda. A statement from the office on Monday night said that it will manage Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities to “advance the interest of the United States.” The office will also “carry on the...

Democratic rule in D.C. amid the coronavirus pandemic could expose simmering tensions between New York’s two political titans — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the new Senate Democratic majority leader, sources who know both men said. “Theirs is a working relationship at best,” said one top New York Democrat. “There was enormous tension...

Dr. Deborah Birx on Sunday denied that President Biden has been set up to fail in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic — saying it was “important” to her that the new administration receive the necessary tools to tackle the crisis. “If I thought that was true, I wouldn’t be sleeping right now,” Birx told CBS...

Donald Trump may have issued more than 200 clemency grants — many of them to family and political supporters — but the number is far smaller than the thousands of pardons issued by Democratic presidents for nearly a century. A recent study comparing presidential pardons by the Pew Research Center shows that Trump granted clemency...

The mayor of Southampton is a squatter, according to his landlord, who also happens to be a bitter political rival. Zach Epley, 33, says his family served their tenant, Mayor Jesse Warren, with a 90-day vacate notice in October but he refuses to move out and isn’t paying rent. “He has not paid any rent...

Saturday marks a year since Wuhan, China, instituted a lockdown over COVID-19, the world is still reeling.

Perhaps he’d like a Pepsi? President Biden appears to have gotten rid of the Diet Coke button his predecessor Donald Trump used on the resolute desk in the Oval Office. Political commentator Tom Newton Dunn on Thursday tweeted a photo of Biden behind the desk with stacks of executive orders — but the famous little...

They’re rebels without a Qause. The QAnon movement was thrown into crisis this week when President Biden peacefully entered the White House — rather than be crushed by a long-promised “storm” and “great awakening.” “It’s obvious now we’ve been had. No plan, no Q, nothing,” one now-deflated follower wrote after the inauguration in a QAnon...

WASHINGTON — President Biden unveiled a broad, 198-page plan to combat the COVID-19 crisis Thursday in an executive order-signing event at the White House, where he assured Americans that help was on the way but warned that things would “get worse before they got better.” The new commander-in-chief signed 10 executive actions mandating the wearing...