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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has hired two fundraisers from Florida, a sign he may be working toward a presidential bid, the New York Post reported.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled on Thursday a new plan of action in order to combat antisemitism and hate crimes across the state of New York, including a $25 Million grant for schools to improve security, $5,000 rewards for any Information leading to arrest and conviction for a hate crime, and a new hate crimes text line to report incidents.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that transgender students would not lose protections in his state despite the Trump administration’s decision to repeal guidelines allowing children to use school bathrooms according to their preferred gender identity, the Hill reported.

“Were you on drugs?” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asked convicted murderer Judith Clark before commuting part of her 75-years-to-life sentence. “No,” she explained. “I was on politics.”

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is slashing its organizing budget by $90 million, in a sign that unions fear their message will not resonate during a Trump administration, according to Businessweek.

New York pistol permit holders who acquired their permit prior to 2013 are now required to re-certify, but the state has not set up a website through which re-certification can begin.

When New York’s Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo gushed over SolarCity’s new solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York, the audience, likely, didn’t grasp the recently-revealed meaning of his words: “It is such a metaphor—a symbol of everything we’re doing.”

Monday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” while reacting to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump saying today that the suspected bomber in New York and New Jersey Ahmad Khan Rahami should not be given hospitalization and legal counsel while in custody, Gov.

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has done an about-face on the question of whether the terror attacks in New York and New Jersey could be linked to international terrorism.

Teachers and administrators sang and danced to “Welcome Back Bay Shore Teachers” –- their own lyrics sung to the tune of “Summer Nights” from the musical Grease. It took jabs at Common Core.

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee has launched a campaign to procure signatures of all 50 state governors on a petition to divest from companies engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

TEL AVIV – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed self-declared “progressives” who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, saying that such outright rejection is not in line with progressive ideals.

During his July 28 speech to the DNC, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) talked about aspects of his state’s 2013 SAFE Act and said, “We fought the NRA and we won.”

The death of World War Two concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was mourned on Sunday by admirers worldwide who honored his life-long fight for millions of Holocaust victims.

Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an Executive Order No. 157, directing state agencies to divest public funds from companies and organizations aligned with the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the State of Israel.

Despite a persistent downpour of rain some 30,000 people marched through New York on Sunday in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade. Hosted by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the parade, which featured floats with dancers, bands, and performers, made its way through Manhattan from 52nd Street to 74th Street.

TEL AVIV – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order barring agencies under his control from having any business dealings with entities that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.

During an April 4 meeting with New York state legislators, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton suggested New York gun crime is driven by guns crossing the border from Vermont.

At a GOP debate in January many thought Texas Senator Ted Cruz made a gaffe when he threw out the phrase “New York values” as an attack on frontrunner Donald Trump. Now that the New York primary is finally at hand, the Senator is taking yet another stab at explaining what the phrase means to help smooth the way for Empire State Republicans to pull the Cruz lever.

California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour – the highest in the nation – as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders again seized on wage disparity and the plight of the working poor in their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

California lawmakers on Thursday approved the nation’s highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour to take effect by 2022 after it was hailed by Democrats as an example to the nation as it struggles with a growing gap between rich and poor.

Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) criticized Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his “New York values” attack on his rival Donald Trump. During Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, Cruz said, “There are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women

On January 1, the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago for 2015 was 2,986.

Friends and family grieved for a New York Air National Guardsman killed in southern Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province last Monday after a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) into his patrol near Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. military facility in the war-torn nation.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed pardons for 10,000 former juvenile offenders in order, he says, to allow them to leave their past off applications for employment and credit.

A Siena College poll shows that despite Governor Andrew Cuomo’s stated support of Syrian refugees settling in New York, even liberal New Yorkers are not on board with that decision.

New York’s Top Democrats have identified the causes of the mass opposition to illegal immigration and Syrian resettlement: Anger, fear, and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election.

New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo raised the ire of government reform activists by vetoing two bills that would have loosened the state’s strict controls over its Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to allow citizens quicker and easier access to government records. But then he reversed course the next day and issued an executive order intended to do the same thing.

A progressive catfight has erupted between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as they argue over who is more sympathetic to the homeless.

On October 30, the New York Times reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is joining the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence’s push to hold gun sellers liable for the misuse of guns.

After being accused of trying to “scalp” Mets tickets at his political fundraisers, New York’s Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo has canceled plans to offer up World Series tickets to raise tens of thousands in campaign donations.

On October 27 President Obama blamed Chicago’s gun control failures on the state of Indiana and other states that maintain a stronger focus on defending the Second Amendment than curtailing it.

On October 2 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reiterated his call for Democrats to shut down government in order to force Republicans to support gun control.

At Carey Gabay’s funeral on September 26, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) suggested Democrats shut down government and refuse to restart it until Republicans agree to pass “real gun control.”

As the months go by, we’ll learn more about the big players in the Dannemora drama. For example, Dateline NBC steps up with accomplice Joyce Mitchell’s side of the story. This was the first time that the public has heard directly from one of the three main characters in the drama (escaped convicts David Sweat, Richard Matt, or confessed accomplice Mitchell) without having the filter of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s political operation and the intertwined New York State bureaucracy imposed upon the information.

On September 17, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) told an audience at a Harlem breakfast that New York’s surging gun violence was not his fault or proof of the failure of gun control, but was the fault of states “down south.”