A New York developer who donated to Adams’ campaign operates a real estate empire that, documents show, is majority-owned by a Cyprus-registered company linked to Uzbek tycoon Bakhtiyor Fazilov.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a meeting during the United Nations General Assembly summit in New York City, U.S., September 24, 2024. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS/File photo OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stressed in a call on Thursday that any talks to end the war with Russia must include Kyiv at the negotiating table,

White House deputy chief of staff James Blair discusses talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine and the DOJ moving to dismiss the federal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams on 'Sunday Night in America.

A controversial Manhattan hotel being used to shelter migrants is set to close. The Roosevelt Hotel became an emblem of New York City’s fraught effort to manage thousands of international migrants who have flooded into the city in recent years.

The United States voted against a Ukrainian-drafted United Nations resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Washington led an international campaign for tough economic penalties after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Dozens of countries have punished Russian banks, businesses and oligarchs. They froze $300 billion of Russia’s assets, barred it from much of the global financial system and restricted what it could buy and sell.