Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in New York City with no interviews or public events yet announced.
Vice President Mike Pence travels to Charlotte, NC today, where he will participate in the RNC convention kickoff, tour of Parkdale Mills and deliver remarks there before heading to Greensboro, NC.
In Greensboro, Pence will participate in a Trump Victory Event and then return to Washington, D.C.
At 9 a.m., the MTA Board meets, MTA Board Room, 2 Broadway, 20th floor, Manhattan.
Also at 9 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Energy and Telecommunications meets, Room 123, state Capitol, Albany.
At 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare meets, Room 813, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
At 10 a.m., the NYC Council Committee on Finance meets jointly with the Committee on General Welfare, the Committee on Justice System, the Committee on Juvenile Justice, the Committee on Parks and Recreation and the Subcommittee on Capital Budget, Council chamber, City Hall, Manhattan.
Also at 10 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will host a roundtable for ethnic and community media and sign a related executive order, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.
At 11 a.m., the state Senate is in session, Senate Chambers, state Capitol, Albany.
At 11 a.m. Westchester County Executive Latimer signs two executive orders, one mandating groundwater testing going forward for many contaminants, including PFAS, and a second to effectively ban the use of PFAS at the Westchester County Airport as soon as permitted by Federal law, 3rd Fl. Observation Deck, Westchester County Airport, 240 Airport Rd., White Plains.
At noon, small business owners, construction workers and contractors will rally regarding the impact the state’s proposed changes to rent laws will have on jobs and small businesses, 3rd Fl., state Capitol, Albany.
Also at noon, NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Councilman Daniel Dromm and others join a broad-based coalition of LGBTQ+ groups to launch a major initiative to elect LGBTQ candidates to the New York City Council in 2021, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
At 1 p.m., a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held to celebrate the opening of a Retro Fitness gym at the Empire State Plaza, southwest concourse, Albany.
Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Gregory Meeks and the Queens Democratic Party host a fireside chat with 2020 Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg, LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Queens.
Also at 1 p.m., the state Senate Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development holds a public hearing on rent regulation and tenant protection legislation, Van Buren Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, second floor, Albany.
Also at 1 p.m., the NYC Council Committee on Justice System holds an oversight hearing on preparing for the implementation of bail, speedy trial and discovery reform, which the State Legislature passed in its FY20 Budget, Committee Room, City Hall, Manhattan.
At 2 p.m., state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs discusses the 2020 delegate selection plan, which includes setting the date for the 2020 New York presidential primary, and reducing the timeframe for voters to switch party affiliations, Albany Labor Temple, 890 3rd St., Albany.
At 3 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will deliver remarks at an event announcing the first annual Yankees-Stonewall Scholars recipients, The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St., Manhattan.
At 5:30 p.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz holds a campaign fundraiser, The Blackthorn, 2134 Seneca St., Buffalo.
At 6 p.m., Citizens Union hosts its annual “Spring for Reform” event, featuring a panel discussion on the 2020 Census, moderated by NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan, and featuring NYC Councilman Carlos Menchaca, NYC Census Director Julie Menin and ABNY Executive Vice President Melva Miller, Manhattan Penthouse. 80 5th Avenue, Manhattan.
At 7:30 p.m., de Blasio will deliver remarks at the U.S. Navy reception in honor of Fleet Week New York 2019, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House, 1 Bowling Green, Manhattan.
This evening, McCray and de Blasio will host an annual Iftar dinner at Gracie Mansion in honor of Ramadan. This event is closed press.
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The state Assembly passed a bill to allow prosecutors to pursue state charges in some instances in which a person has received a presidential pardon, and the measure now heads to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to sign it.
The bill, sponsored by Long Island Democratic Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor, was created to close a “double jeopardy” loophole in the state’s legislation that makes it harder to prosecute someone who has received a pardon.
“Right now the president’s threatened use of the pardon power is very troubling. It would be done to undermine an investigation to help out friends and family members,” Kaminsky said.
The Legislature today is expected to pass a separate bill that would allow three congressional committees to seek Trump’s state tax returns; that bill also has the support of Cuomo, a Democrat in his third term.
The Internal Revenue Service has no choice but to honor congressional requests for Trump’s tax returns unless he invokes executive privilege to protect them, according to a draft legal memo written by agency staff members.
A rising number of Democratic lawmakers have begun to call for an impeachment inquiry – a sign of increasing frustration with their inability to obtain interviews with and information from Trump administration officials following the release of the special counsel’s report.
Former Vice President Joe Biden blasted Trump for shaming him for abandoning Pennsylvania — an attack line the president deployed at his Montoursville, Pennsylvania, rally Monday night.
North Korea criticized Biden as a “fool of low IQ” after the presidential hopeful called the country’s leader Kim Jong Un a “dictator and tyrant.”
Anita Hill, whose treatment during U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing has become an issue in the 2020 campaign, said she worries that the Democratic women in the race “are not being taken seriously as presidential candidates.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram this week to open up about the “myths” surrounding working in Congress, writing that “I do see members on the brink of tears quite often.”
Instagram has launched an investigation after a database containing private data linked to millions of accounts was allegedly exposed online without a password.
U.S. government debt prices were slightly higher this morning, as investors await the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting.
New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former White House communications director Hope Hicks and an aide to former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before the panel.
Lawyers for Trump will appear before a Manhattan judge today to argue that House Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to get their hands on the commander in chief’s financial records through a subpoena — a position that failed to win over a Washington, DC, judge earlier this week.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is entering a new phase of his White House bid, nodding more forcefully to a part of his background that distinguishes him from nearly all of his campaign rivals: his military service.
A federal judge in Mississippi expressed deep skepticism about a state law that bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy, sending a signal that attempts across the country to pass near total bans on abortion might not easily withstand judicial scrutiny.
The Trump administration is considering limits to a Chinese video surveillance giant’s ability to buy American technology, people familiar with the matter said, the latest attempt to counter Beijing’s global economic ambitions.
Attorney Michael Avenatti said yesterday that he expects to be indicted on charges related to his March arrest within 48 hours.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who’s been pleading with people to pledge as little as a buck to support his quixotic bid for the White House, has hired a “lean and mean” presidential campaign team of just five people, because he’s not sure if he’ll be a viable candidate.
De Blasio has the highest negative rating among all 23 Democratic presidential contenders — as a staggering 45 percent of American voters don’t like him, a new Quinnipiac University poll revealed.
During a CNN interview, the mayor professed his love for ska — the Jamaican music genre that fused with punk in the mid-1990s.
A new bill designed to legalize marijuana for adult, recreational use in New York will include a provision allowing those previously convicted on low-level drug charges to have their criminal records expunged, rather than sealed. That could draw opposition from the governor.
NXIVM’s Keith Raniere was caught on tape planning the grotesque branding ritual he ordered performed on his female slaves, prosecutors say. The audio was played during the accused sex cult leader’s federal trial in Brooklyn.
New state GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy, taking over a Republican Party in shambles, said Democratic overreach could help put more Republicans in office.
Langworthy pledged the party would show a “renewed fighting spirit” under his leadership.
The president and his campaign aides never spoke publicly about Langworthy’s bid to unseat outgoing state GOP Chair Ed Cox. But for months, top aides to Trump were discussing the race with Langworthy.
Cox and Langworthy presented a united front at a joint appearance in Albany yesterday.
“The party is unified and we are passing the baton to a very vigorous new chair who is going to really reignite the party from the base up,” Cox said with Langworthy by his side.
New York City and state are joining up with a coalition of more than 20 state and local governments in a lawsuit to block a new rule issued by the federal government that opponents say would allow health care providers to deny treatment based on their personal views.
Police officers involved in the arrest of Eric Garner attempted to calm him before finally applying force, according to the courtroom testimony by the partner of NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who faces disciplinary charges over Garner’s death.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is expected to vote today on whether to hire outside counsel to investigate alleged overtime abuse among the agency’s workers.
A new de Blasio administration initiative successfully registered more than 18,000 city students to vote this year, according to the Department of Education.
Two state lawmakers are calling on fellow legislators to ban the sale of a type of baby crib accessory that has been blamed for the deaths of dozens of infants since the mid-1980s.
A group led mostly by racetrack-based casino operators is pressing an influential state senator in New York, Joe Addabbo, to reconsider his new proposal to limit the entities that could participate in a sports gambling system in the state.
The NYT editorial board: “The measles outbreak makes it vital for New York lawmakers to end religious exemptions for vaccinations.”
The state Health Department spent tens of thousands of dollars printing and distributing measles information sheets in Yiddish to hang on the doors of more than 45,000 homes in Orthodox communities. But they were so riddled with errors that parts of it were “barely comprehensible” and “practically indecipherable.”
To listen to Cuomo, the 2017 Republican tax overhaul that limited SALT deductions was a devastating blow. The rich would flee, the middle class would suffer and blue state budgets would bleed. Perhaps this will come to pass over time, but so far, there are almost no signs of it.
New figures released show that New York City spends more than twice the national average to educate its public-school students, but recent test scores reveal a sorry return on that investment.
Someone intentionally activated the emergency brakes on multiple New York subway trains yesterday, bringing them to a halt and disrupting “thousands of commutes,” the authorities said.
A “staggering” number of motorists across the state, including Western New York, lose their driver’s license every year. The state suspends more than a half-million annually; the count in Erie County approaches 26,000.
School budgets were approved in 123 of Long Island’s 124 districts yesterday.
The contentious Saratoga Springs school board race that centered on arming school monitors — and which mobilized voters on both sides of the debate — ended with a split decision.
The school elections in Erie and Niagara counties were a mixture of status quo and change, with budgets getting overwhelming support while nine incumbents, including several longtime board members, lost their seats.
Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has filed more than 8,000 signatures to qualify for a second ballot line, called “Protect the Taxpayer,” in his bid for a third term this November.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he will oppose the nomination of Peter Vito as U.S. marshal for Western New York, a move that could kill the Buffalo private investigator’s bid for Senate confirmation.
Republican NY-27 Rep. Chris Collins’ next re-election campaign sprang to life in the form of a fundraising email that attacks a fellow Republican and 2020 challenger – State Sen. Chris Jacobs of Buffalo – as a “Never-Trumper.”
Collins’ lawyers don’t want jurors to see a memo from his staff discussing legislation that could affect Innate Immunotherapeutics, the Australian biotech firm that’s at the center of the criminal insider trading case against the Republican lawmaker from Clarence.
Keith Bush spent 33 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in Bellport. He always maintained his innocence. Now, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office is expected to disclose findings that could lead a judge to vacate his 1976 conviction.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announced a new statewide alliance that will help standardize cancer care from Buffalo to Long Island, making it easier for patients in even remote places to plug into top specialists and clinical trials for the most advanced treatments.
Leading civil rights activists, academics, actors and writers are calling on Cuomo to release Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 48 years for one of the most high-profile killings of the 1970s black liberation struggle.
The staff at Albany County Nursing Home staff failed to adequately feed, clothe, wash and medicate a resident in the months leading up to his death last year, according to a federal lawsuit.
Former Gov. David Paterson proposed to Mary Sliwa — the ex-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — on Monday at his 65th birthday party.
The shark frenzy created this week by the tracking of a great white shark swimming in the Long Island Sound may have been somewhat unfounded.
The Onion is no stranger to poking fun at Albany. Just this month, the satirical publication called Albany one of the most underrated U.S. vacation destinations, saying it had “all the razzle dazzle of Syracuse combined with the natural beauty of Poughkeepsie.”
Twenty-four goats brought to devour weeds in Manhattan’s Riverside Park got a rousing welcome, with an explosion of applause, selfies and b-a-a-a-a-d puns.