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Nearly a month after protesters started camping out outside New York City Hall to call for defunding of the police department, uniformed officers with riot shields moved in to clear out tents and people early Wednesday in a planned operation. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the decision was made after the location had less protestors and more homeless individuals. Katherine...

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary is leaving the role after 15 months by the mayor’s side, dealing with everything from the local backlash to his presidential campaign to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a thread of tweets Wednesday afternoon, Freddi Goldstein said that her last day as the mayor’s press secretary will be next week. “Working for the people...

Hundreds of ‘Defund the NYPD’ protesters remain camped out at City Hall despite the city budget passing — a budget that cut the NYPD budget by $1 billion. Tracie Strahan reports.

The number of #DefundNYPD protesters camping outside City Hall has grown to around 400 since last week. Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to slash $1 billion from the police department’s $6 billion funding next year. NBC New York’s Kai Saimonsen reports.

Police reform advocates started camping out in front of City Hall late Tuesday. They are for $1 billion in cuts to the nearly $6 billion NYPD budget.

As there are more calls nationwide to do away with statues of people with ties to slavery or racism, some City COuncil members are calling for a statue of President Thomas Jefferson to be removed from chambers in City Hall. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

Speaker Corey Johnson, along with other members of City Council, wrote a letter Thursday to Mayor Bill de Blasio demanding a Thomas Jefferson statue be removed from City Hall

City hall delivered a truckload of meals to the Vernon houses today after News 4 reported that tenants in the NYCHA building were struggling to make meals without gas. Melissa Russo reports.

Pennsylvania now lags well behind many other states when it comes to renewable energy investment and output. A farmer and an entrepreneur say farmland can reshape the state’s energy economy.

Top MTA brass was grilled Monday morning by members of the New York City Council on the agency’s proposed $50 billion capital plan.

Heavy rain and strong winds battered the tri-state area Friday, flooding parts of New York City and New Jersey within minutes and prompting up to 4-hour delays at tri-state airports.

Police in Paterson, New Jersey, are trying new ways to work with the community with the goal of building trust. Pat Battle reports.

There appears to be no end in sight to the government shutdown, and 2 million New Yorkers who depend on federal vouchers — like food stamps, housing and school breakfasts — are about to feel the impact. Adam Kuperstein reports.

Authorities are looking into whether the New Jersey man who died at the hospital after going on a livestreamed rant inside a police station may have had spinal meningitis, sources familiar with the investigation say. Katherine Creag reports.

Tammy Kilgore raised the giant claw of a John Deere excavator high in the air, then slammed it down on the roof the house where she had spent nearly her entire adult life. The shingles crunched, but not much else. So she did it again, and again — each time taking a bigger bite with the mouth-like claw, until the...

The push for pot hit the stairs of City Hall in Manhattan Thursday.

Former Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Sunday he’s a whistleblower who was fired within hours of meeting with the FBI about city hall corruption.

In a social media post, the Chicago Teachers Union has announced it has reached a tentative deal with Chicago Public Schools, but says that a “return to work” agreement has yet to be reached in the ongoing teachers strike.

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

The city has announced a settlement that prevents floating digital billboards in New York City waters