Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany with no public events or interviews yet scheduled.
The state Legislature is not in session.
At 8 a.m., NYC Councilman Robert Cornegy and his staff will be joined by area service providers to distribute information at local transportation hubs regarding the mental health services available in his Bedford Stuyvesant and Northern Crown Heights district, Brooklyn.
At 9 a.m., the Sexual Harassment Working Group, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and others hold a press conference ahead of the second legislative hearing on sexual harassment, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
At 9:30 a.m., state Sen. Robert Antonacci holds a roundtable forum on health care in New York as he prepares for the Senate Health Committee Hearing on the New York Health Act, One Group Center, 706 N. Clinton St., Syracuse.
At 10 a.m., state Assemblywoman Karines Reyes and New York City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson join over 100 foster youth and advocates from the Fair Futures campaign to demand equal opportunity for young people in foster care, Bronx Borough Hall, 851 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.
Also at 10 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will appear live on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” and take calls from listeners.
Also at 10 a.m., state Sens. James Skoufis, Biaggi and Julia Salazar, alongside Assembly members Michele Titus, Marcos Crespo and Latrice Walker take testimony to examine sexual harassment in the workplace, Assembly Hearing Room, 250 Broadway, Room 1923, Manhattan.
At 11 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey, Westchester County Executive George Latimer and others hold a press conference to urge responsible driving this holiday weekend, White Plains Department of Public Safety, 77 S. Lexington Ave., White Plains.
Also at 11 a.m., de Blasio will make an announcement on the NYC plan to rapidly expand the school zone speed camera program, PS 199, 270 West 70th St., Manhattan.
Later, de Blasio will tour the U.S.S. New York and welcome crew members as part of Fleet Week New York 2019 – an event not open to members of the media.
In the evening, the mayor and First Lady Chirlane McCray will travel to Nevada, as he continues his 2020 presidential bid.
Headlines…
President Donald Trump last night issued a memo giving U.S. Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016, and also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr.
The order is a change for Trump, who last year dropped a plan to release documents related to the Russia investigation amid concerns from Justice Department officials who said making them public could damage national security.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal said that he plans to take the Trump administration to court to enforce a subpoena and a legal request to review the president’s tax returns.
Trump unveiled a $16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by his trade war with Beijing, signaling a protracted fight ahead that is already prompting some American companies to shift business away from China.
The Trump administration is preparing to circumvent Congress to allow the export to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of billions of dollars of munitions that are now on hold.
For reasons both political and personal, Bill and Hillary, the most powerful couple in the modern era of American politics, stand on the sidelines as one of the most important election cycles for Democrats unfolds.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld conceded in an interview this week that Republican voters have little appetite for his insurgent primary bid to block =Trump from renomination in 2020.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, shared a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that had been making the rounds of right-wing media in which she appears to slur her speech.
The country’s social media giants are taking heat for the altered Pelosi videos circulating on their platforms — the latest incident in a roiling debate over what content companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should allow on their platforms.
Pelosi and Trump traded insults on Twitter after Trump tweeted a video that showed moments when the Democratic congresswoman stammered during a press conference.
The U.S. Senate approved $19.1 billion in aid to help Americans rebound from a string of natural disasters, and Trump supported it even though it did not include the funds he requested to address a migrant surge at the southern U.S. border.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said special counsel Robert Mueller wants to testify privately about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg hammered Trump for in the past saying he had bone spurs to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, saying he faked the disability.
SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit for Musk’s new Starlink internet service.
A Chicago bank chairman has been indicted in Manhattan on a charge that he issued millions of dollars in high-risk loans to Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in an effort to obtain a senior position in the administration, federal authorities said.
The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Albany ruled that a carve-out in state labor law excluding farmworkers from collective bargaining rights is unconstitutional.
The decision is expected to be appealed to New York’s highest court. But NYCLU, one of several plaintiffs, called the decision a major victory in part because it comes at a time when they and others are lobbying heavily in Albany for approval of a “farmworkers bill of rights.”
State legislators Tom Abinanti and David Carlucci announced their newest fix for cashless tolling. Their new Toll Payer Protection Act reduces penalties, holds the tolling authorities accountable and protects a driver’s data from being sold to third parties.
Reformers called on Cuomo to finally sign a bill to legalize so-called gravity knives, which has landed on his desk for a third time.
New York State released a $585 million plan to contain and treat the Bethpage groundwater pollution plume that has been spreading for decades from former Northrop Grumman and Navy facilities.
The state AG is now investigating the collapse of a hospital retirement fund in Schenectady. Two state lawmakers – Sen. Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara – have also filed legislation intended to get answers.
Amid a controversy over overtime, Cuomo is expected to replace the MTA’s Inspector General with a lawyer from his own office.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has found the ideal campaign headquarters for his improbable presidential bid — a converted vacuum factory that specializes in short-term leases and is a quick walk to his Brooklyn gym.
De Blasio said at a union rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that he and his presidential campaign team — all six of them — are going to boycott McDonald’s until the fast food chain pays a $15 minimum wage to its workers.
Police nabbed an alleged NYC subway brake puller late yesterday, and are investigating if he’s the suspect responsible for causing more than 700 commute-crushing delays since February alone.
An MTA subway driver described the heart-stopping moment an e-brake-happy, serial saboteur struck and brought his train to a grinding halt.
Lawyers for disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his movie company have reached a tentative $44 million deal that would settle a slew of civil suits brought against the accused serial sex assaulters, though the agreement hasn’t yet been finalized.
The outcome of the settlement talks will be especially notable because the lawsuits are one of the main avenues by which Weinstein could be held responsible for his alleged actions.
Accused cult leader Keith Raniere was so worried that his sex slaves would put on weight that he set up a spy camera in the kitchen of a home he shared with many of them.
Raniere had problems in the bedroom but tried to cover it up by lying, one of his “sex slaves” testified.
Amid a burgeoning measles outbreak, the state Health Department has “strongly recommended” that anyone attending or working at a summer camp this year be vaccinated against the highly contagious respiratory disease.
New York State health officials are considering rigorous new requirements for hospitals and nursing homes to prevent the spread of a deadly drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris.
A Brooklyn community board took $26,000 in public funds and splurged on a hybrid SUV that was reportedly found parked at the board manager’s home.
The NYC Council pledged to scrutinize how the city’s 59 community boards spent a one-time $42,500 budget boost, after the purchase of the SUV was revealed.
Controversial legislation requiring that New Yorkers with developmental disabilities be paid a minimum wage for any type of work was held up in the state Assembly’s committee process earlier this week.
A new analysis shows top Assembly Democrats collected few campaign contributions from their constituents during the past election cycle, making them unlikely to benefit from the 6-to-1 public matching system for in-district donations that had been proposed.
Plans to build a new Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan are moving forward, a sign that the interstate feuding that stalled the process over the last several years may finally be coming to an end.
New York and New Jersey officials have zeroed in on three potential options to replace the aging terminal.
A prominent Rockefeller University pediatric endocrinologist, now deceased, sexually abused many of his patients over a period of decades, according to the results of an investigation the university released yesterday.
The Erie County Sheriff’s Office has pledged to begin the process of buying and outfitting its deputies with body cameras, as early as this fall, after the Erie County Legislature voted Thursday to approve $600,000 to jump-start a body camera program.
Masten Council Member Ulysees O. Wingo “did commit a crime” when he brought a loaded gun to Riverside High School last week, but he will not be charged, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn.
Rep. John Katko met with the new U.S. members of the International Joint Commission to discuss flooding along Lake Ontario that’s occurred twice in three years.
Katko said Trump’s administration has no legitimate excuse for a delay in making Harriet Tubman the face of the $20 bill.
A former Oswego official pleaded guilty to negligently dumping sewage from the city treatment plant into Lake Ontario, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Kenneth P. Achtyl, an Erie County sheriff’s deputy whose bloody 2017 arrest of a Buffalo Bills fan was caught on camera — drawing wide attention when the video went viral one year later — pleaded not guilty to four misdemeanors stemming from the incident.
The search for a new president of Niagara County Community College is being extended after the college’s trustees were unable to decide on hiring two finalists for the post.
State and local officials called on Cuomo and the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to explain why Livingston Correctional Facility is slated for closure.
Outside City Hall, city Auditor Sue Rizzo took to a podium to lambaste the administration and her rival in next month’s Democratic primary for Albany County comptroller, claiming financial mismanagement and obstruction.
The Cohoes police department’s senior lieutenant was suspended without pay two weeks ago in what is seen by some as a political move by Mayor Shawn Morse in response to the four-way contested Democratic mayoral primary and his effort to change the way the chief is selected.
The Schoharie limousine trial for Nauman Hussain has been pushed back to next year. It is now scheduled to take place in early January.
Developers pushing to install massive wind turbines in the waters off New York and New Jersey have run into a delicate yet mighty foe: the Atlantic sea scallop.