Mayor Eric Adams of New York said on Saturday that former President Donald J. Trump should not be called a “fascist” or compared to Adolf Hitler, a rejection of Democrats’ closing focus in the final days of the 2024 campaign on the eve of Mr. Trump’s rally in Midtown Manhattan. …
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Mayor Eric Adams did not attend the first candidate forum for the New York City mayoral race, but his record — and the criminal charges he faces — received plenty of attention on Saturday from the Democrats who are running to unseat him. The attacks covered Mr. Adams’s indictment on …
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Life is grand in the Bentley Suite at the St. Regis Istanbul, with its marble floors and walk-in closet, its 24-hour butler service, and its views stretching all the way to the blue waters of the Bosporus. The light sculpture suspended above the vast bed, where New York Mayor Eric …
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Melissa Aviles-Ramos, who will take over in January as the next chancellor of New York City’s public school system, is a longtime New York educator who oversaw the schools’ response to the arrival of tens of thousands of migrant children. Her swift appointment on Wednesday to lead the nation’s largest …
Read More »David Banks, New York City’s Schools Chancellor, to Resign
David C. Banks, the chancellor of New York City’s public school system, said on Tuesday that he would resign from his post at the end of December. The announcement came just weeks after federal agents seized Mr. Banks’s phone as part of a bribery investigation involving his brothers and fiancée …
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