On Election Day, Democrats held off Republicans enough to avoid a “red wave” election. But defying expectations of an Obama midterm-like shellacking doesn’t mean it’s all good news for the party. One of the stinging defeats for Democrats was that of five-term Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who became the first Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee head to lose their seat in 40 years. Maloney lost to first-term Republican Assemblyman Mike Lawler in New York’s new 17th district. We break down the results with Alexis Grenell of The Nation and Pythia Public.
We catch up with New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat running for another six-year term in November.
New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang is raising the alarm after President Trump fired a number of IGs from federal agencies.
The new president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum says the Cooperstown, New York institution is planning to return to a...