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Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams, left, is joined by former Gov. David Paterson, right, during a campaign event, Thursday, June 17, 2021, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Wright and Paterson endorsed Adams. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Eric Adams takes lead in New York City’s mayoral race

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Democrat mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia talks with the media on New York's Upper West Side, Tuesday, June 22, 2021. The final votes are set to be cast Tuesday in New York's party primaries, where mayors, prosecutors, judges and city and county legislators will be on the ballot, along with other municipal offices. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Yang, Garcia try to catch Eric Adams in NYC mayoral race

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Patrons play the links as a giant branding sign is displayed with flagstones at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx borough of New York on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

‘Politically motivated’: Trump Organization sues New York City over golf course contract

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

Mayoral candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia wave to New Yorkers after speaking at the AAPI Democracy Project's "Voting is Justice Rally" in Chinatown on Sunday, June 20, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)

Front-runner for N.Y. mayor accuses Democrats Yang, Garcia of suppressing Black voters

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Morgan Stanley tells workers to return to office or take pay cut as pandemic eases

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Nov. 3, 2016, signs supporting DC statehood are on display outside an early voting place on in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. Voters in the nation's capital will decide next week whether they want their city to become the nation's 51st state. The referendum backed by Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser is expected to pass easily. But even staunch statehood supporters say they're not sure of the path forward. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

‘Statehood for Staten Island’

By Herbert W. Stupp

In this March 24, 2021, photo, Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks during a 'I Want My Miracle Back' rally, in the Bronx borough of New York. Adams, a former police officer, is betting that a spike in shootings during the coronavirus pandemic — including a shooting that injured three bystanders in Times Square last weekend — will boost his appeal. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Eric Adams leapfrogs Andrew Yang in NYC mayor’s race: Poll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This One-Cent Magenta postage stamp printed in 1856 went on the auction block in New York City on June 8, 2021, where it sold for $8.3 million. The Magenta, printed in British Guiana (now Guyana), was created during a postage shortage when supplies from a colonial printer didn’t arrive. A schoolboy discovered it in a collection, and the rarity passed through the hands of several wealthy individuals in subsequent years. It last sold at auction in 2014 for nearly $10 million. (Photo credit: Sotheby's.)

World’s rarest stamp expected to fetch $15M at Tuesday auction

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine improving Federal cybersecurity, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Simon & Schuster had canceled the publication of Mr. Hawley's book “The Tyranny of Big Tech," and he had to find another publisher. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Senate Republicans pressure divided Democrats with antisemitism resolution

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump: Grand jury report is ‘continuation of the greatest witch hunt in American history’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sophomores Hunter Keith, left, and Carson Anderson get off the bus on the first day of in-person instruction at Jenks High School, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Tulsa, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)

Woke trend seeps into red states’ public schools: ‘Our education system is being weaponized’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Emily Baumgartner, left, and Luke Finley, second from left, join friends from their church group in a birthday toast to one of the members, upper right, during their weekly &quot;Monday Night Hang&quot; gathering at the Tiki Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side Monday, May 17, 2021, in New York. Under the latest regulations, vaccinated New Yorkers can shed their masks in most situations Wednesday. Restaurants, shops, gyms and many other businesses can go back to full occupancy if all patrons are inoculated. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

‘City in transition’: New York vies to turn page on the coronavirus pandemic

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

In this Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, file photo, a screen displays then-President Donald Trump as he speaks on stage during the first day of the Republican National Committee convention in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Donald Trump says N.Y. criminal probe continues ‘greatest political Witch Hunt’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, July 7, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a "National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's Schools," event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Letitia James, N.Y. attorney general: Trump Organization probe is now criminal

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Visitors peek into the museum at the 9/11 Museum &amp; Memorial, Thursday, April 29, 2021, in New York. In recent weeks, tourism indicators for New York City like hotel occupancy and museum attendance that had fallen off a pandemic cliff have ticked up slightly. It's a welcome sight for a city where the industry has been decimated by the impact of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Signs of optimism as NYC sees rise in tourism, bit by bit

By Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

NY to push to get subway riders, college students vaccinated

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

FILE — In this March 29, 2021, file photo, a health care worker steps out of a mobile vaccination van parked on a street corner in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, in New York. New York City hopes to begin offering coronavirus inoculations to tourists by stationing vaccination vans in Times Square and other visitor-heavy spots, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

New York City aims to offer virus vaccinations to tourists

Associated Press

NYC schools try compromise on Columbus Day, displeasing some

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Lucio Lopez, left, talks with friends as he stands in a tent that is part of a homeless encampment in the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Unemployment among Hispanic immigrants has doubled in the U.S., going from 4.8% in January 2020 to 8.8% in February 2021, according to the Migration Policy Institute. These numbers don’t take into consideration immigration status but activists and social workers in states like New York or California say more vulnerable immigrants, whom often don't qualify for aid, are finding themselves without a home. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Some immigrants, hard hit by economic fallout, lose homes

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

This combination photo shows J Balvin, from left, Billie Eilish and A$AP Rocky, who will headline at the Governors Ball Music Festival on Sept. 24-26 in Queens at the Citi Field complex. (AP Photo)

Billie Eilish, J Balvin, A$AP to play NY’s Gov Ball festival

By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press