New York City Mayor Eric Adams dodged questions by the hosts of "The View" Friday about a potential pardon from President-elect Donald Trump over his ongoing federal investigators. Adams has been in the hot seat for over a year as federal investigators have probed several of his closest confidants and deputies,

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Jay Clayton as the lead federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York provided an early answer to a question that's simmering in the city’s political and legal circles: Would Trump put a political firebrand in charge of the famously independent Manhattan office that’s prosecuting Mayor Eric Adams?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a judge on Monday to set an earlier trial date in his federal corruption case next year, arguing the current date would impede Adams’ participation in his mayoral reelection campaign,