Protests erupt as cop cleared; feds to investigate
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG A grand jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped for selling loose, untaxed…
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A FRESH START FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND LIBERALS?
By KEN THOMAS FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2014 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in New Orleans. Liberals may be giving Hillary Rodham Clinton…
NEW NYC MAYOR SEEKS TO ADVANCE LIBERAL AGENDA
By JONATHAN LEMIRE FILE – In this Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, William Bratton, left, speaks while New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio looks on during a news conference in…
TAKING HELM OF NYPD, BRATTON PROMISES REFORMS
By COLLEEN LONG New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton walks into his first press conference at police headquarters, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)…
DE BLASIO VOWS SWEEPING CHANGE AS NYC’S NEXT MAYOR
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio stands with his wife, Chirlane McCray as they talk with school children at MS 51 after he announced Carmen Farina as the next…
White mayor, black wife: NYC shatters an image
By JESSE WASHINGTON FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 file photo, New York Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio embraces his son Dante, left, daughter Chiara, second left,…
Mayor-elect says he’s ‘cleared the air’ with NYPD
Rev. Al Sharpton, center, president of National Action Network, welcomes Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, right, to the organization’s headquarters on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, in New York. De Blasio thanked…
New leadership style coming to NYC City Hall
By JONATHAN LEMIRE In this combination of two file photos, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, and incumbent NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio are shown. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio…