Tag: Municipal elections

Buffalo mayor considers write-in campaign after primary loss

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is considering running for re-election as a write-in candidate after losing a three-way primary to socialist India...

Indicted Rochester mayor defeated in Democratic primary

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, who ran for a third term while under indictment in a campaign finance case and under fire...

NYC mayoral primary will be big test for ranked vote system

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NEW YORK — Voters will likely pick the next mayor of New York City next week in a Democratic primary that will also be...

Poland’s ruling nationalists suffer defeat in local race

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WARSAW, Poland — Poland's ruling nationalist party has suffered a loss in a mayoral race in a Polish city, a vote that was being...

GOP ramps up misleading attack on Democrats’ policing policy

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DES MOINES, Iowa — When Minnesota Republican Tyler Kistner announced his candidacy for the U.S. House in April, he asked voters to ponder two...

Crime leads voter concerns as NYC mayoral primary approaches

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NEW YORK — Fear of crime is back as a political issue in New York City. For the first time in years it could...

German ex-minister, mayor contender stripped of doctorate

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BERLIN — A Berlin university on Thursday stripped a prominent former German minister of her doctorate following a long-running saga over plagiarism allegations that...

Boston leadership tangled in series of scandals

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BOSTON — Boston’s leaders are scrambling to tamp down a series of political crises. ...

Security Council backs Guterres for second term as UN chief

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council gave its unanimous backing to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second term on Tuesday, assuring his election...

Mattie Parker is next Fort Worth mayor in win for GOP

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Mattie Parker declared victory Saturday as the next mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, keeping it one of America's biggest cities...