Trump’s New York Co-Chair Says ‘He Made a Big Mistake With That Mexican Comment’

Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino-the 2010 GOP candidate for governor and co-chair of Donald Trump's New York campaign-admitted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee erred in some of his comments about Mexican-Americans. Paladino used most of his time at the Upper East Side gathering of the Metropolitan Republican Club attacking 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker Paul Ryan, strategist Karl Rove, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, President Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo-who defeated him six years ago.

Clinton vs Trump: battle of the New Yorkers

Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II. On a likely freezing January 20, 2017 either the adopted daughter who served twice as state senator or the Queens-born, Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

Broadway wants tax break extended as a Hamiltona enriches backers

Alexander Hamilton introduced the idea of federal taxes. Broadway producers enjoying a record season buoyed by his namesake musical are lobbying Congress to limit what they owe.

Donald Trump’s Fascism and His Appeasers

"It can't happen here? My friends, it is happening here." So says New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia near the end of the "The Plot Against America," the Philip Roth novel from 12 years ago that re-imagines American history if the isolationist, Hitler-sympathizing anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh had become president instead of Franklin Roosevelt.

Trump sticks to teleprompter as he tries to rebound from bipartisan criticism

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, US April 27, 2016. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered a message of ethnic harmony on Friday at a Christian evangelical conference as he sought to calm concern about his criticism of a Mexican-American judge.

McGraw, Underwood win big at CMT Awards; Pharrell performs

Williams will perform alongside Little Big Town at Wednesday's CMT Awards in Nashvi... . FILE - In this April 3, 2016 file photo, Jimi Westbrook, from left, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman and Phillip Sweet, of Little Big Town, accepts the award for vocal group of the year at the 51st annual Ac... .

Hillary Clinton Clinches Democratic Nomination

Hillary Clinton made history Monday as she became the first woman to win a major party's presidential nomination, ending a grueling primary that suggested that her return to the White House will be anything by easy. Wins in Guam and Puerto Rico, along with superdelegates sliding her way, put the former Secretary of State, Senator from New York and First Lady of the United States and of Arkansas over the top, according to The Associated Press.

Clinton Within Striking Distance of Democratic Presidential Nomination

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Schumer pitches ‘ROBOCOP’ bill to drop hammer on auto-call pests

Phone companies must offer robocall-blocking technology to all customers as telemarketers continue to evade the Do Not Call registry, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday. The New York Democrat plans to introduce legislation in the Senate that would require telecom companies to let their clients block the annoying calls.

More Than 700 Migrants Feared Dead in Mediterranean Shipwrecks

According to BBC, the... For millions of Americans, Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer. People will crowd the beaches, head to their localpool and fire up the grill, but it's ... Race results from Friday, May 27th at Hi Way 92 Park: Super Stock Qualify: 1. Davey Urwin, 2. Kyle Austin, 3. Clarence Hays, 4. Miller Brothers.

Donald Trump agrees to debate Bernie Sanders but sets stiff price for participating

For Sanders, appearing onstage with fellow native New Yorker Donald Trump would draw attention beyond his larger-than-expected base of young supporters. Donald Trump has provisionally accepted Bernie Sanders' proposal to debate, but the billionaire is setting a high price for participating.

Churchgoer charged in Sunday service slaying headed to trial

Officials are asking Flint residents to flush the pipes in their homes every day for two weeks to help the Michigan city recover from its lead-tainted water crisis. Foul-smelling water that came through the tap of David G. Mata Sr.'s house in Flint last year turned his sinks and toilets a brownish-orange color and nearly killed all of his plants.

Delegates in hand, Trump says he’s got GOP nomination

With a triumphant pile of delegates in hand, Republican Donald Trump on Thursday claimed support from "almost everybody" in his party and turned his attention to his likely Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, who is still locked in a divisive primary contest. The New York billionaire reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination hours earlier, according to the Associated Press count, just before a North Dakota campaign stop.

No, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Aren’t Actually Going to Debate

It would have been a debate to remember: Two New Yorkers who couldn't be more different, one a white-haired socialist and the other a golden-maned capitalist , sparring angrily in California like two customers at a dry cleaner's. Donald Trump said Wednesday night on the Jimmy Kimmel Live ! that he was prepared to debate Bernie Sanders.

Trump says decision to seek donations followed GOP request

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi says that NATO should use the upcoming summit in Warsaw to consider new security models given the t FILE - In this May 10,,2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is photographed during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at Trump Tower in New York. Trump holds his first presidential fundraisers this week, in New Mexico and Los Angeles.

Byron York: Is it true what Democrats say about Republicans and voting?

As New York Republicans went to the polls for their primary April 19, some opponents of Donald Trump clung to the hope that Ted Cruz, or perhaps John Kasich, might deny Trump a few delegates in some of the state's congressional districts. One reason for that hope was New York's highly restrictive voter registration rules, which required party-changers to register as Republicans many months earlier in order to be eligible to vote in the GOP primary.