Last night, Gracie Mansion hosted a long-running annual reception celebrating Italian heritage, attended by various elected officials, including mayor Eric Adams, and representatives from local Italian cultural societies. Also in attendance was the Consul General of Italy in New York, Fabrizio Di Michele, who delivered a speech centered on Columbus...

The latest financial disclosures from mayor Eric Adams’ campaign and his legal defense fund reveal that both have seen a precipitous drop in activity since federal charges were filed against him at the end of September. It is the latest in a string of bad news for New York City’s...

Yesterday morning in Washington Heights, the American Italian Cancer Foundation’s roving mammogram bus was parked across the street from the offices of City Councilwoman Carmen De La Rosa, offering free breast screenings to the general public. AICF coordinates with local officials like De La Rosa, parking the bus in a...

Eric Adams held his weekly off-topic press conference today under the central cupola of City Hall. The mayor approached the podium, once again flanked by signs touting his accomplishments, which this week were all about the reduction in crime on the subway. Indeed, Adams focused his opening remarks on this...

Earlier today, Kamala Harris unveiled an economic plan geared towards a very specific audience: the “Opportunity Agenda for Black men.” The proposed policies include “fully forgivable” startup business loans; mentorship, education and training programs for jobs in “high-demand industries;” and healthcare programs targeting Black men’s health, who suffer disproportionately from...

In her new book, Journalist Maria Laurino brings to light the story of forced adoptions of Italian children carried out by the Catholic Church, which took thousands of children away from their unwed mothers between 1950 and 1970, and sent them to the United States without the mothers’ consent. CBS’s...

The United States will deploy the Terminal High Altitude Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to Israel and “associated crew of U.S. military personnel,” according to a statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder. The document also states that the order comes from Lloyd Austin at the direction of...

Aaliyah Banks, daughter of NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, has been promoted to district-level job in the city Department of Education without meeting the posted requirements, according to the New York Post. Her new position is as an ELA (English Language Arts) teacher for elementary school grades in Brooklyn’s District...

At Tesla’s “We, Robot” event last night at Warner Brothers studios in Los Angeles, CEO Elon Musk showed off the Cybercab to the public for the first time, a self-driving robotaxi that Musk unveiled by riding in it down the lot towards the stage. Despite the hype and impressive show...

Last night, the Italian Cultural Institute hosted an event featuring representatives from five different Italian regions, who are part of a national program to promote roots tourism. The program, called Italea (a porte-manteau of “Italia” and “talea,” the Italian word for tree grafting, in this case a metaphor for emigration),...