Rudy Giuliani News

Do you remember the good 'ole days when Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York City and the crime rate dropped because he took the handcuffs off police officers and let them aggressively pursue bad guys? How he got the prosecutor's office onboard to stop frivolous lawsuits against the police departments? Well, the Democrats in the City ... (more)

Ed Koch speaks at the renaming of the Queensboro Bridge in his honor in May 2011.

Republican mayoral candidate and former MTA chief Joe Lhota was recently - oh my gosh, what a humbling coincidence - caught by Bloomberg News buying $17.99 non-iron dress shirts from Costco, forgoing the Brooks Brothers "uniform" of his old boss Rudy Giuliani, who once said his $88 duds helped "re-establish [his] Republican credentials."

The Obama administration on Monday threatened to veto farm legislation that would cut billions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.

Republican mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota is poised to accept an endorsement from Rep. Michael Grimm at an event Monday morning, the candidate's camp announced Sunday night.

If U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett runs for mayor of Indianapolis in 2015, he'll borrow a traditional Republican strategy: Build a reputation as a crime-fighter and take it up the political ladder.

The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the New York Police Department if she rules the department's stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional.

Helen Rosenthal, one of the leading Democrats campaigning for an Upper West Side Council district, cut a $1,000 check for former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani's aborted Senate campaign.

The reopening of the East 91st Street marine transfer station's a controversy a decade in the making.

While U.S. Rep. Ed Markey is bringing in every big Democratic gun he can find, GOP Senate challenger Gabriel Gomez so far has kept his best weapon - Scott Brown - mostly on the sidelines, and that's a mistake.

Two top aides to Gov. Cuomo have gone to war over turf and power, at times refusing to talk to each other and fighting for credit for several of the governor's major initiatives, sources have told The Post.

Patrick gave employees at the Cambridge tech firm HubSpot an inside look at a White House dinner last week, regaling them with tales of presidential banter, the "night owl" that is President Obama and details of what the two actually talk about behind closed doors.

Twitchy, among others noticed this odious tweet from Lawrence O'Donnell last night: "Giuliani attacked POTUS last night for Benghazi so I am forced to remind Giuliani how many firefighters were killed on 9/11 because of him."

Fox News is misrepresenting President Obama's position on surveillance and the threat of international terrorism to falsely accuse him of hypocrisy and fecklessness.

In a new TV ad, Rudy ladles praise on his mayoral disciple; "Joe Lhota is New York," he says, as images flash of his life as a born-and-raised New Yorker.

John Catsimatidis, a Greek immigrant who became one of New York's most successful business leaders, is now a Republican candidate for mayor because he believes it's time to pay back the city that allowed him to live the American dream.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed U.S. Senate candidate Edward J. Markey as soft on terror today, calling any claims that the congressman is better on national security than opponent Republican Gabriel Gomez "absolutely ridiculous."

Just when scandal-mania seemed to be dying down comes troubling news, via former Salon writer Glenn Greenwald, that a secret FISA court made Verizon turn over records of every call made on its service in the U.S. to the National Security Agency.

Rudy Giuliani wants us to take it from him: Joe Lhota is ready to be mayor of the City of New York.

Democrats regularly insist the GOP has been captured by right wing extremists and only hard-line conservatives can prevail in the primary process.