Bill de Blasio

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Black Lives Matter demonstrators march during a rally on Sunday in Santee, California in the 13th day of protests since George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25th. Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
George Floyd death: Minneapolis City Council pledges to disband police department

Minneapolis City Council has pledged to disband the city’s police department, following the death of African-American man George Floyd two weeks ago w(...)

A life-long New Yorker, Donald Trump was raised in the city’s Queens borough and later moved to Manhattan. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Trump to make Florida his permanent residence instead of New York
  • US
  • November 1, 2019, 06:49

US president Donald Trump said on Thursday he will be making Palm Beach, Florida, his permanent residence instead of his Trump Tower apartment in New (...)

DUP MP Ian Paisley jnr and PSNI chief constable George Hamilton attend the American Ireland Gala Fund dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Ian Paisley jnr: ‘Trump would be very welcome in the North’

New York mayor Bill de Blasio may have named St Patrick’s Day “Gerry Adams’ Day” this weekend, but behind the scenes it was the DUP who were making wa(...)

Bill Clinton introduces newly elected mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, at City Hall in New York on New Year’s Day. Photograph: Reuters
New York, New York – from Bloomberg to de Blasio, it’s a tale of two cities

All politics is local. But the local can be decidedly national, even international. Boris Johnson’s London mayoralty acquired national significance be(...)

New Jersey’s Republican governor Chris Christie was re-elected by a landslide in a traditionally Democratic state. Photograph: Reuters
Republican governor re-elected by landslide in New Jersey

New Jersey’s Republican governor Chris Christie was re-elected by a landslide in a traditionally Democratic state, propelling him as a favourite for t(...)