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New York City candidates for mayor are competing aggressively for the often fractured Latino vote, as the race enters its final three weeks.

Candidates for mayor hit the soggy campaign trail, with several also speaking at city churches.

A surge in gun violence has sparked calls for a return to tougher policing.

Follow CNN Politics Rising crime in New York has gripped the mayoral race. Eric Adams says he alone can fix it. Updated 9:14 AM ET, Sat May 29, 2021 Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks after receiving the endorsement from the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) in the Bronx on May 7, 2021 in New York City. (CNN)For the first few months of New York Citys Democratic mayoral primary, the campaign seemed to be trundling along in search of a defining issu...

/PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) Chairwoman Alice Rodriguez has been confirmed as Keynote Speaker for the virtual Latinas in...

“Right now, we have a welcome mat with the Greyhound to bring in handguns in our city,” he said. “That must stop," said Adams about Port Authority and lax security.

Amid criticism from rivals, NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams vows to bring ‘spot-checks’ for guns, teases top pick for NYPD © Provided by New York Daily News New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams Mayoral contender and Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams reiterated a plan Friday for police to conduct “spot-check” searches of bus passengers from the South to stem the flow of guns here. Adams, a retired NYPD captain, stood at the site of a recent caught-on-camera, broad daylight ...

The poll, which was conducted by Fontas Advisors and Core Decision Analytics a week ago, found Adams in front with 13% of those polled backing him — up 3 points from the 10% he got in a Fontas poll taken in March.

Massive overdevelopment and warehousing apartments for the wealthy were killing New York even before the pandemic. So why are none of the mayoral candidates talking about that?

“We are taking the necessary steps to address the harm caused by certain staff on our campaign and to build accountability,” Morales said in a statement.