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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is now in her third term and shes no longer defined by the “firsts” that accompanied her arrival in Congress.

What kind of bipartisanship do we want? Smooth-as-silk to grow our Pentagon and Praetorian Guard? Or disruptive to fight against all that?

In one of the most closely watched races in the country, Chicago’s mayoral runoff election will see Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson sworn in on May 15 as the city’s 57th mayor....

Chicago’s mayoral runoff election will see Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson sworn in on May 15 as Chicago's 57th mayor. Johnson, former school teacher, 12-year union organizer for Chicago Teachers Union triumphed over former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas.

The NYPD still hasn’t trimmed enough fat to achieve a budget savings target spelled out by Mayor Adams last year, an administration official said Thursday — one day after the mayor announced a multi-billion dollar agreement to raise salaries for most of the department’s cops.

Nearly a quarter of the city will get new political leadership in 2023, a result of an unprecedented exodus of veteran alderpeople that led to a generational shift in Chicago politics, with six Black, Latina and Asian American women replacing veteran City Council members, all of them men.

With a new progressive mayor coming to City Hall, his relationship with a slightly more progressive council could still be tricky.

The speaker's immediate headache is a growing right-left alliance on Iraq war powers. But House liberals and conservatives are linking up on other issues, too.

And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially declared his candidacy for president yesterday.

The House’s most conservative Republicans and its most liberal Democrats can barely stand each other most days. But lately they’re building an unlikely…