Four core 2008 Clinton staffers would pass on a 2016 bid

New York Magazine's Benjamin Wallace-Wells, NYC Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, MSNBC's Karen Finney and the National Journal's Ron Fournier join a discussion on why safe rooms and shelters aren't abundant in the tornado-prone area of Oklahoma. MSNBC's ...

It was a pander-palooza. Thats how Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson described yesterdays mayoral forum where candidates angled for a coveted teachers union endorsement. Not a single candidate willing to stand up to union, he tweeted. If you believe the ...

HOT SUMMER COMING: One-third of House committees

By Joan Biskupic HAGATNA, Guam, June 18 (Reuters) - Steven Levin lives alone on a boat docked off the coast of the Pacific island of Guam, about as far away from the U.S. mainland as an American resident can get. He has no wife or kids, no job, no ...

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Doing it his way, no matter the damage. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is stepping up his campaign against Democratic senators who voted in April against new gun regulations, most notably extending background checks for private gun sales. In ...

The effort by the gun reform movement to build a serious, long-term political infrastructure to challenge the NRA just got a boost this morning. The New York Times reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who retains enormous clout in the financial ...

Former New York mayor Ed Koch envisioned bicycles as vehicles for the future, and in 1980 created experimental bike lanes on 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan where riders were protected from speeding traffic by asphalt barriers. Some people ...

From Brooklyn to the Bronx, from San Antonio to Cincinnati, communities and organizations across the United States are tackling heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases with a dose of powerful medicine: active design. FitNation ...