New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio is the latest in a string of high profile politicians to express support for a bill allowing family members of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts, the Daily News reports. President Obama is scheduled to visit the country, which is deep in turmoil over falling oil prices and the encroaching militant threat of ISIS, on Wednesday. The hope is that the talks will smooth over troubled relations between the two nations.

“In the most symbolically freighted sign of a peacemaking effort, City Hall has invited Mr. Bloomberg to participate in a tree-planting ceremony with Mr. de Blasio this month.” The photograph accompanying this story is really something else.

Freewheeling rebels with nothing to lose, de Blasio and his safety cronies are coming for you. If the one thing keeping you in New York is the knowledge that riding shotgun in NYC’s taxis means the cool breeze blowing behind your neck and back, the life-affirming push of your hand against the dashboard during a stop made too short, and best of all, a chance to feel fear again, then you’re not gonna like the mayor’s latest: De Blasio is trying to make it illegal to ride in the front passenger seat of an NYC taxi without a seatbelt.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that two days in the NYC public school year will be turned into days off in observance of Muslim holidays Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr.

The NYPD's embarrassing protests at two recent police funerals were "unacceptable" to the vast majority of New Yorkers, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Nearly 70 percent of New Yorkers disapproved of cops turning their backs to Mayor de Blasio, and 77 percent said police union leader Patrick Lynch's "blood on the hands" comments about de Blasio were "too extreme."

At a press conference this afternoon, Mayor de Blasio asked activists protesting the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown to put their demonstrations on hold until after this weekend, when Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu—the two NYPD officers shot to death on Saturday—will be buried.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration just confirmed its most important decision yet: the legalization of ferret ownership in New York City.

This morning, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio announced that Bill Bratton will be the next commissioner of the New York Police Department. Bratton, who will replace Ray Kelly, served as NYPD commissioner from 1994 to 1996 under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

In an interview with New York Magazine, lame duck Mayor Michael Bloomberg describes the mayoral campaign run by NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as "class-warfare and racist."