In the New York City mayoral election, sports fans submitted write-in votes for local stars including Jalen Brunson, Aaron Judge, and Jaxson Dart.

The vote totals for the 2025 mayoral election in New York City were released, and Judge received 11 write-in votes. The New York Yankees star wasn't the only baseball player who received some write-in recognition, as free agent Pete Alonso, who has spent his entire career on the New York Mets, received three.

The Big Apple loves its athletes.

Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign and subsequent election as New York City's first Muslim mayor in November 2025 has triggered a wave of Islamophobic disinformation on social media, including posts claiming police in the United States' largest city responded to his win by teaching people how to wear the hijab.

The New York mayor-elect's victory has energized the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani raked in $3 million toward his transition effort in the 30 days since he was elected mayor, his transition team announced Friday. Nearly 30,000 people have donated to the socialist’s transition fund,

While a majority of voters in Queens cast a ballot for Mamdani, others voted for former Governor Andrew Cuomo or Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. But a handful of those voters got a little more creative.

State law mandates counties, cities, towns or school districts with a record of discrimination in New York must seek approval from state election officials before approving major changes to local voti

Democrats have inched into Trump's 2024 margins in several off-cycle elections.

Benjamin Netanyahu taunted Zohran Mamdani this week, saying he would return to New York, defying the socialist mayor-elect’s pledge to have him arrested on charges of war crimes. “I’ll come to New York,

It’s time New York voted on Super Tuesday. To that end and simultaneous to the Democratic National Committee establishing presidential primary rules in the coming months, we have introduced legislation to permanently ensure New York’s relevancy in the nominating process starting in 2028.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.”