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GOP candidate for NYC mayor qualifies for election debate

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, shown here in a screen capture from Twitter, delivering a news conference on Sept. 21, 2017, regarding the city's efforts to assist Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria's devastation. (Twitter)

Bill de Blasio, NYC mayor, announces relief efforts to help Puerto Rico in Maria’s aftermath

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2016, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Mayor Bill de Blasio walk on West 23rd street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood in New York. The governor endorsed his frequent rival and fellow Democrat for a second term as mayor of New York City, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. De Blasio faces Republican state Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island in the November election. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Cuomo endorses rival and fellow Democrat de Blasio for mayor

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray applaud after they both voted in the Democratic primary, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The mayor faces a crowded primary field, but no challengers with his organizing power or financial muscle, as he seeks a second term as the leader of the country's largest city. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The Latest: De Blasio says he wants to build a ‘fairer’ city

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In a Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, talks with senior pastor Dr. Alfred Cockfield, left, and his wife Linette Cockfield, center, during his visit to their church, God's Battalion of Prayer Church, in New York. The city's minority population holds the key to de Blasio's re-election test. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Racial politics color New York City’s looming mayoral race

By STEVE PEOPLES - Associated Press

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio participates in the 2nd mayoral debate at the CUNY Graduate Center on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News/POOL)

Nicole Malliotakis: Bill de Blasio isn’t dealing with New York’s mental illness crisis

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

NYC mayor will ‘definitely’ march in Columbus Day Parade

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Bill de Blasio rages at staff in leaked emails; source calls mayor ‘condescending and arrogant’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio, standing center, greets former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton as he arrives for the funeral for New York City Police Officer Miosotis Familia, at the World Changers Church, in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The slain officer was writing in her memo book last Wednesday when a man walked up to the police vehicle where she was sitting and fired. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)

Bill de Blasio mocks Constitution with special tax on rich

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

NY transit officials chew on possible ban on subway snacks

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Police officers wait outside World Changers Church in the Bronx to enter a wake honoring slain police Officer Miosotis Familia, Monday July 10, 2017, in New York. Officer Miosotis Familia was shot and killed Wednesday, July 5, while sitting inside her police vehicle in the Bronx. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

NYC mayor deals with backlash for trip after police killing

By STEVE PEOPLES and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

New York Police Dept. Commissioner Jim O'Neil, right, and Mayor Bill de Blasio leave the 46th Precinct after addressing the officers, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 in the Bronx borough of New York. A police officer from the 46th Precinct was shot to death early Wednesday, ambushed inside her command post RV by an ex-convict who once ranted online about his treatment in prison and about police getting away with killing people, authorities said. He was later killed after pulling a gun on police. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Bill de Blasio abruptly leaves NYC to join G-20 protests in Germany

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, walks in the hallway to a meeting during a special legislative session at the Capitol on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the special session to resolve a stalemate over control of public education in New York City. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

NY special legislative session off to slow start in Albany

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press

NYC mayor lays out plan to close Rikers Island jail complex

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Senators work In the Senate chamber at the state Capitol during the last day of the legislative session on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

The Latest: NY lawmakers adjourn without deal on NYC schools

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Control of NYC schools in flux as lawmakers ready to adjourn

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, May 18, 2017 file photo, Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera reacts to the crowd at a gathering in his honor in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio says Thursday, June 1, 2017, Rivera recently freed from prison has agreed to step aside from any formal role in the city's Puerto Rican Day parade. Parade organizers had planned to honor Rivera, a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, which claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Mayor: Puerto Rican militant to step aside from parade role

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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2016 file photo, State Senator Ruben Diaz, center, members of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization, and politicians gather outside the apartment building where Deborah Danner lived in the Bronx borough of New York. Sgt. Hugh Barry with the New York Police Department shot Danner in her apartment after she came at him with a baseball bat. The sergeant has been indicted by a New York City grand jury on a murder charge in the shooting of the 66-year-old mentally ill woman, a death Mayor Bill de Blasio called tragic and unacceptable.(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

NY officer pleads not guilty in mentally ill woman’s death

By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press