President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned about 1,000 presidential appointees on a video conference that he will fire them “on the spot” if he hears that they have shown “disrespect” to people in their professional conduct. Biden made the threat as he swore in a large crew of political aides — virtually — who will...

A former Army captain and Republican political candidate now part of the far-right Proud Boys militia mocked police officers as “traitors” while storming the US Capitol earlier this month, according to authorities and a report. Gabriel Garcia, 40, faces charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds for his alleged role in the...

Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, a couple of Trump-supporting rappers charged with gun crimes, also received pardons as part of the 11th hour clemency spree.

A majority of Empire State residents think that the worst is yet to come regarding the COVID crisis, according to a Siena College poll released Tuesday.

"This is not a political statement,” Brooks said. “This is a statement of unity."

A Philadelphia woman claims she warned Capitol Police in December about a potentially violent protester, but says cops did nothing and even allowed him to carry a weapon on congressional Capitol grounds. Melissa Byrne, a 41-year-old political organizer, was in Washington, D.C., for a COVID-relief event on Dec. 14 when she saw Jacob Chansley, also...

The nation’s biggest pro-gun group said it will restructure as a Texas nonprofit “to exit what it believes is a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York,” a statement on the NRA’s website reads.

Bumble’s decision to suspend its political views filter after women allegedly used it to report Capitol rioters to FBI has courted some backlash.

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than two million people around the world in just over a year, researchers at Johns Hopkins University confirmed Friday in yet another horrifying milestone in the global crisis.

Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, pleaded not guilty on Thursday after he was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty in the Flint water crisis.

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been charged for his role in the Flint water crisis, which caused an outbreak of Legionnaires disease and contaminated residents’ homes with lead-based water. An indictment filed by the state attorney general’s office charged Snyder with two counts of willful neglect of duty after a years-long investigation into one...

Major League Baseball is pausing all political contributions through its PAC in response to the deadly Capitol riot. The league announced the move, a first among major professional sports leagues in the wake of the siege, in a statement to the Associated Press. “In light of the unprecedented events last week at the U.S. Capitol,...

From your phone, TV and sneakers to your clothes and COVID-19 masks, anti-slavery campaigners have warned there’s a very good chance part of them was made by political prisoners in China. Activists have accused the Communist regime of being engaged in the world’s biggest forced labor outrage since the Nazis. Look around your home and...

Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, will be charged in connection with the Flint water crisis, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

A manatee was found with the word “TRUMP” scrawled on its back in a Florida swimming hole, prompting an investigation from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, reports said Monday.  The defenseless animal was spotted with the political inscription over the weekend in the Blue Hole headwaters of the Homosassa River in Citrus County...

“AWS’s decision to effectively terminate Parler’s account is apparently motivated by political animus,” the lawsuit asserts. “It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.”

The speech, Cuomo’s 11th since becoming governor, is being held virtually amid the COVID crisis and will lead into a week of similar events as the governor details his legislative wish list.

Now, if he runs for City Hall, Yang will have the advantage of broad name recognition, but he’s also almost certain to see some of his past political calculations and the rhetoric that went with them viewed through a much tougher local prism.

He’s got foreskin in the game. Andrew Yang, the failed presidential candidate who has signaled his intention to run for mayor of New York City, is a long-time opponent of circumcision — and some political observers wonder if that position could cut into his popularity. The entrepreneur, 45, who would face a crowded field in...

The Women’s National Republican Club turns 100 this year, but may not make it to 101. The historic political club in midtown Manhattan has found itself in dire financial straits as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to a fundraising appeal sent to members on Dec. 15 which said the institution was “in...

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny offered a lengthy denunciation of Twitter’s decision to permanently ban President Trump saying that it appeared to be “based on emotions and personal political preferences.” Navalny, a ferocious Kremlin critic, only narrowly survived after he was poisoned in August with the nerve agent Novichok by agents of Russian President Vladimir Putin....

The United States has recorded more than 4,000 new coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time ever, adding another grim record to a catastrophic health crisis that continues to overwhelm hospitals and devastate families around the country.

State Sen. Amanda Chase, a self-described “Trump in Heels” who is seeking the GOP nomination for governor in 2021, revealed that she has been locked out of her political campaign page for two months over posts on the uprising at the Capitol earlier this week.

Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has been slapped with a $1.3 billion lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over her “wild accusations” that the company rigged the presidential election. Dominion, whose vote-counting equipment was used in several states, filed the federal complaint Friday to “set the record straight.” “During a Washington, D.C. press conference, a Georgia ...

“I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement,” Bush said in a statement.

"I am stepping down from my posts after being the target of personal attacks as I want to preserve the institutions in which I work," Olivier Douhamel said on Twitter after the allegations went public.

A growing group of lawmakers and advocates rallied Tuesday outside Gov. Cuomo’s Manhattan office as part of the Invest In Our New York Campaign, a push to lift the state out of its current financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic by closing legal loopholes enjoyed by the wealthy and raising revenue through updating the tax code.

An anti-masker who believed the COVID-19 crisis was just a “political” stunt issued an emotional plea to skeptics from his hospital bed — after becoming seriously ill with the virus. In a Facebook video shared by a pal on Monday, Chuck Stacey gasps for breath as he admits he was wrong about the pandemic that’s...

LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course to lose his own seat and neither of the two main political parties is likely to win an outright majority at the next general election, not due until 2024, according to a new poll. This is the first detailed survey of the public’s perception of...

The US suddenly pulled the USS Nimitz — its only aircraft carrier in the Middle East — out of the region ahead of Sunday’s one-year anniversary of the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, despite weeks of rising tensions with Iran. The move was reportedly a “de-escalatory signal” aimed at avoiding a crisis with less than three...