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Ray McGuire, a top executive at Citigroup, is set to leave the bank and run for mayor of New York.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner briefed the public on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Beta made landfall and brought torrential rain to Houston and the surrounding region.

The Milwaukee Police Department’s chief apologized Wednesday as footage showing the tasing and arrest arrest of Bucks guard Sterling Brown.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new multi-agency task force Tuesday to crack down on illegal fireworks as complaints across the five boroughs soar to unprecedented levels for this time of year. Katherine Creag reports.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD face questions about how some officers are handling protesters. Tracie Strahan reports.

In South Windsor there’s a celebrity who spends his days at a Paulie’s Professional Barber Shop. Just below the front door bell of the barber shop, there is a doggy in the window — he’s a star named Teddy.

Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20. The animal’s owners announced the cat’s death late Saturday in a statement.

At some point during an employee’s house part, Mayor John Roth went upstairs, took off his pants and crawled into an empty bed to fall asleep

The mayor of Mahwah admitted that at a party hosted by a town employee, he drank too much then took off his pants before getting into an empty bed and falling asleep. NBC New York’s Ken Buffa reports.

Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. A suspect was shot and killed by police.

Dozens of loved ones, local residents and community leaders gathered Saturday night in South Jersey to hold an emotional vigil for 5-year-old Dulce María Alavez, who disappeared from a park earlier this week.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

As he labors to win over black voters whose support is vital to his Democratic presidential bid, Pete Buttigieg found a receptive host on Sunday in a civil rights activist who has sought to continue the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for a racially diverse national campaign against poverty. After attending services at the Rev. William Barber’s Greenleaf Christian...

Joe Sestak ended his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, telling supporters that he couldn’t raise money because he was unable to break through in the media. Sestak, a former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania who turns 68 next week, qualified for none of the Democratic debates and failed to register even 1 percent in most opinion polls, NBC...

It is now illegal in New York City for employers to ask job applicants about their salary history.

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Thursday said he tried to rig online polls “at the direction and for the sole benefit of” Trump when he was thinking about making a run for the White House. Jonathan Dienst reports.

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.

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