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Eric Adams appears to be running a real campaign, as Cuomo rakes in cash
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams says she’s qualified for public matching funds, per Friday night’s filing.
10:54 PM Politico Top Stories From Andrew Cuomo to Zohran Mamdani: the Race to Become NYCs Mayor, in Photos
Scenes from the New York City Democratic Primary.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Larry Summers Says Trumps Latest Attack on Harvard Is a Prescription for Failure
The former Harvard president says Trump’s effort to ban international students would damage not just Harvard but America.
03:23 PM Politico Top Stories Im not looking for a deal: Trump revives global trade war
The president vowed to hit the European Union and phone manufacturers with new tariffs.
05:30 PM Politico Top Stories Meet the former Democrat leading Trumps charge against 10 universities
Leo Terrell says he plans to ‘“intensify’” the crackdown on schools in the wake of Wednesday night’s shooting.
04:49 PM Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories Californias frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds
A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments.
09:00 AM Politico Top Stories Investors Are Sending a Warning to Congress. Will Washington Listen?
If lawmakers don’t absorb a gentle message from the bond markets, they may get an even more unpleasant one.
07:55 AM Politico Top Stories Trade talks bog down as countries and White House race to meet July deadline
President Donald Trump promised that his administration would be able to make quick trade deals with more than 50 trading partners. But halfway into his self-imposed deadline, talks have gotten bogged down.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories How Mike Johnson doused a GOP dumpster fire
The speaker spent months keeping flare-ups from growing into a conflagration even Donald Trump couldn’t extinguish.
04:45 AM Politico Top Stories How a Freedom Caucus Revolt Ended in the White House
When conservative holdouts continued to push for more concessions, Trump made clear he’d had enough.
06:19 PM Politico Top Stories Trumps hands-off megabill strategy to face test in Senate
Trump’s Thursday calls to at least two senators suggest he may not be willing — or able — to sit on the sidelines for as long as he did with the House.
06:52 PM Politico Top Stories Bad news for Trumps Golden Dome: He cant build it without Canada
The president would have to rely on his “51st state” to track Chinese and Russian missiles that could come at the U.S. from over the horizon.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Trump uses legal setbacks on mass deportation for public relations
The legal losses are stacking up but they help him tell a political story.
06:30 AM Politico Top Stories Harvard sues Trump administration to protect its international student enrollment
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified the university Thursday that its certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was revoked.
09:15 AM Politico Top Stories The New Rights Favorite Pastor
Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Trump threatens EU with 50 percent tariff from June 1
Ultimatum comes hours before crunch call between U.S. and EU trade negotiators.
09:26 AM Politico Top Stories I Did Not Have a Security Detail: Killings Pierce the Diplomatic Bubble
When two Israeli embassy staffers were gunned down outside the Jewish Museum, Washington’s entire diplomatic world felt the effects.
04:07 PM Politico Top Stories 'It betrays our values': Progressives grapple with deadly shooting
After shooting two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum, the suspect yelled “free, free Palestine.”
06:57 PM Politico Top Stories Seton Hall defies cardinals order in sexual abuse investigation
Cardinal Joseph Tobin promised “full cooperation” from the Catholic university in New Jersey, but the school is pushing back.
06:45 AM Politico Top Stories Lobbying firms power frontrunner Andrew Cuomos mayoral campaign
Two large New York City-based lobbying outfits are providing staff — sometimes for free — to the frontrunner’s bid.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories Trump undermined Bidens FEMA in North Carolina. Now the cleanup is lagging on his watch.
As a candidate, the president spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, convincing many survivors that the federal government was out to get them.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Trump Is Waging a Culture War on the Library of Congress. Its Been Done Before.
Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those books were un-American.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories Mike Waltz Fell Into an Age-Old Trap in Political History
Executive-branch positions offer former elected officials power — at a price.
12:00 PM Politico Top Stories Trump Should Look to An Unlikely Predecessor If He Wants Peace in the Middle East
Jimmy Carter pulled off the kind of peace agreement that Trump dreams about.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories House Republicans Need Their Closer. Good Thing Hes Back.
After a five-day, eight-time-zone hiatus from Capitol Hill drama, Trump has to salvage his sputtering megabill.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories Biden, Fetterman and Why Staffers Might Start Breaking Their Silence
The old incentives that kept Capitol Hill careerists quiet are going away.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories A Moral, Ethical, Legal, Constitutional Travesty
As the Supreme Court considers a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship, two legal scholars debate whether lower court judges should be able to stop him.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Weve Got a F--king Spy in This Place: Inside Americas Greatest Espionage Mystery
Two former top spy hunters offer exclusive new revelations about their quest to solve America’s greatest espionage mystery and what’s at stake with Kash Patel in charge of the FBI.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories Don't f--k around with Medicaid: Trump moves to steamroll megabill opposition
The president flexed his political muscle on Capitol Hill. But not all House Republicans are ready to submit.
10:19 AM Politico Top Stories Musk to step back from political spending: I think Ive done enough
“If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I don't currently see a reason,” he said.
10:35 AM Politico Top Stories Trump to announce $25B funding for Golden Dome project
The price tag matches the amount in the president’s “big, beautiful bill” that lawmakers have yet to approve.
01:22 PM Politico Top Stories Virginia Republicans worry about their gubernatorial candidate who invoked slavery when criticizing DEI
Winsome Earle-Sears has had a sluggish start to her campaign. Republicans are urging her to turn it around — or face a bloodbath this fall.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Opinion | All the President's Enablers
Three books on Joe Biden’s presidency jointly paint a devastating portrait of an ailing, geriatric leader surrounded by mendacious aides and grasping family members.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver faces felony assault charge in conflict at ICE facility, court filing shows
The complaint was presented to a U.S. magistrate judge shortly before New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, announced the charge.
11:14 AM Politico Top Stories Gavin Newsom could write the ending to the Menendez brothers' saga
The California Democrat makes the final decision if the parole board recommends their release following the infamous, decades-old murder case.
09:00 AM Politico Top Stories Ex-Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms enters Georgia governor race in test for Dems
She would be first Black governor, and first Democrat to win the post in a generation.
06:00 AM Politico Top Stories How Congress could crush Trump's Qatari plane gift
Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
04:45 AM Politico Top Stories The Murphy Meter: Where NJ's governor candidates could change policy positions
Here’s a visual guide to where the candidates stand on 12 key issues.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories May 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
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