President Trump threatened to “take back Washington and run it on a federal basis” if democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins the D.C. mayoral election, the Washington Examiner reports.

Washington Post: “Surveillance video from his shop shows one of the men prying open the heavy steel manhole cover, as a car that seems to be accompanying them sits nearby with its headlights pointed their direction. The trio soon slipped out of sight, into the bowels of the city.”

“That May 5 encounter marked the first in at least three recent incidents in which groups of people have been captured on camera climbing into — and out of — parts of the city’s sprawling sewer system.”

Wall Street Journal: “New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, wearing a Knicks jersey, a baseball cap and mask, slipped into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in March to watch his favorite basketball team take on the Nets.”

“Unlike past mayors, he didn’t sit courtside at the game or end up on the Jumbotron. Instead he cheered on the Knicks with his friends in the nosebleeds, barely recognized by other attendees.”

“In recent weeks, the mayor has still sat in the cheap seats but has also assumed a more prominent role as cheerleader-in-chief, using his political perch to root for the team as it marched toward a spot in the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he’s forming a new Commission of Government Efficiency, or COGE, to improve the way City Hall spends public funds, Bloomberg reports.

Said Mamdani: “This commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster and more efficiently for working people. New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.”

“JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon criticized plans by New York’s left-leaning mayor Zohran Mamdani to slap more taxes on the rich, arguing the move risks doing further damage to the city’s status as a business hub,” Bloomberg reports. 

President Trump urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to “cherish” billionaires like Ken Griffin after the Citadel CEO threatened to bolt from a Park Avenue skyscraper project and move to Miami in response to the socialist mayor’s attacks, the New York Post reports.

Said Trump: “When you lose people like that, it’s sort of not recoverable.”

He added: “Always you say something’s recoverable, right? But it’s not recoverable. Then they build something else. They’re going to be there for 30 years. They don’t come back. And you’ve got to do the opposite. You’ve got to cherish them.”

Wall Street Journal: “Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney was caught with his pants down—and not in a figurative sense—inside town hall, on camera, during the wee hours, in the company of a female journalist.”

“The episode occurred in 2024 but is now bubbling up on multiple fronts. Three former town employees are suing Mooresville officials, alleging retaliation for their efforts to preserve the footage or investigate. Town commissioners passed a no-confidence vote this month urging Carney to quit. And a judge last week ordered the town to release video of the incident, a move the town forestalled by appealing Wednesday.”

Wall Street Journal: “Billionaire Ken Griffin is appalled that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his 24,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse last week as the backdrop for a tax-the-rich video, triggering a subtle threat to re-evaluate his firm’s investment in the city.”

“Mamdani was filmed in front of a property Griffin purchased at 220 Central Park South in 2019 for roughly $238 million, a deal that set a record for the highest-priced home ever sold in the U.S.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that he and President Trump “are in touch” and are “honest, direct about the fact that we have many disagreements,” CBS News reports.

Said Mamdani: “There is one place of agreement that we have, which is that we both love New York City.”

Former New York Mayor Eric Adams has been granted Albanian citizenship, months after visiting the Balkan nation shortly before leaving office, Bloomberg reports.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told Politico that his plan for free buses won’t be happening this year.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s law department on Tuesday sought a judge’s approval to stop representing the former mayor, Eric Adams, in a sexual assault lawsuit brought against him in 2024, the New York Times reports.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) “has used the encrypted messaging app to communicate with fellow elected officials and political advisers. In at least one instance, he’s discussed government business over the app,” Politico reports.

“In an indication he was aware of the problems Signal can pose for government officials, Mamdani left several group chats on the app after his November election victory.”

“Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City made an unannounced trip to Washington on Thursday to meet with President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Mamdani did not put the meeting on his public schedule… The White House did not immediately comment.”

“Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed raising New York City property taxes by nearly 10%, having failed so far to persuade New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Higher taxes for rich corporations and individuals remains his first choice, Mamdani said Tuesday as he shared his proposed budget for fiscal year 2027.”

“Expanding a New York City program to help struggling tenants pay rent seemed like an obvious campaign promise for Zohran Mamdani, who staked his insurgent candidacy last year on making life more affordable in the five boroughs,” the New York Times reports.

“Now, confronting a grim fiscal picture in his second month as mayor, Mr. Mamdani no longer intends to back the growth of the $1 billion-plus initiative known as CityFHEPS, despite a plan passed by the City Council and upheld in court.”

“The reversal marks the clearest example yet of the clash between the ideology of his democratic socialist campaign and the tough realities of managing a sprawling, costly bureaucracy.”