With just under three weeks to go until primary day in the nation’s most populous city, the New York City mayoral race is heating up. Nine Democrats running for mayor in the Democratic-dominated city will face off Wednesday night in the first of two debates ahead of the June 24 primary, with early voting starting 10 days earlier, on June 14. And likely in the political crosshairs in...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is widening his investigation into the alleged “cover-up” of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline by seeking interviews with five more former White House aides. Comer sent letters to five more top former Biden staffers, putting his total outreach in the investigation to 10 people so far. The latest round of letters are being sent to former White House Chief of...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he spoke over the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said that Russia would have to respond to a recent Ukrainian attack on Russian warplanes. Trump said the phone call with Putin lasted about one hour and 15 minutes, noting that it was “not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.” “We discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes,...