Mayor Eric Adams faced an uphill battle in the June 24 Democratic primary, which has drawn a crowded field of candidates. He will run for re-election as an independent instead.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, acquiescing to the Justice Department’s extraordinary request to set aside criminal charges so the Democrat could help with President Donald...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is ditching the Democratic party and running as an independent in the upcoming election.

A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, agreeing it was the only practical outcome while blasting the Justice Department’s “troubling” rationale for wanting the charges thrown out — namely so the Democrat could help President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge, though, denied…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he will pull out of the city’s Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent, arguing that his recently dismissed federal bribery case had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign. In a video, Adams said he will not run in the Democratic […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will pull out of the city’s Democratic primary and will instead run for reelection as an independent candidate.

Adams’ exit from the Democratic party comes one day after a federal judge dismissed the corruption case against him.

Adams, whose criminal case was dismissed Wednesday, said he will not run in the Democratic primary in June.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to run his re-election campaign as an independent, abandoning the Democratic primary, he told Politico on Thursday.

Dismissing the case “with prejudice” spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump at risk of the Justice Department reviving the charges.