{"id":453091,"date":"2025-12-17T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/453091\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:20:17","slug":"morning-briefing-dec-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/453091\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing: Dec. 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, New York City. <\/b>Here’s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Temperatures are warming up this morning, with readings in the 40s.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/td>\nHighs:<\/b>\u00a0Mid-40s
Lows:<\/b>\u00a0Low 30s
Warming up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hourly Forecast<\/a> |\u00a0Interactive Radar<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIntroducing Spectrum News+
Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around NYC<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Mamdani transition team sorts through 72,000 resumes, seeks senior staff hires<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is working on beefing up his incoming administration, with aides reportedly sorting through over 72,000 resumes to fill thousands of vacancies in city government.<\/p>\n

But stumbling blocks remain when it comes to a massive job search.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Mayor Adams delivers farewell address<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Mayor Eric Adams stepped into City Hall\u2019s rotunda to a hip-hop soundtrack Tuesday, ending his administration in his signature mayoral style steeped in swagger.<\/p>\n

In an address to New Yorkers, Adams said it was time to set the record straight, and his time in office should be remembered for more than his indictment.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Working Families Party makes early endorsements<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The left-leaning New York Working Families Party ditched a longtime political ally Tuesday by endorsing an insurgent state Senate candidate \u2014 while also sending a message to moderate Gov. Kathy Hochul ahead of her 2026 reelection.<\/p>\n

The party voted to back Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas over State Sen. Jessica Ramos in the Democratic primary for state Senate District 13 covering the Queens neighborhoods of Corona, East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights.<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Trump orders blockade of ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Investigators release video timeline of Brown campus shooting suspect’s movements<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Deadline for Justice Department to release Epstein files looms. Here’s where things stand<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, New York City. Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner Temperatures are warming…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9428,7448,14360,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-453091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-morning-briefing","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-deanna-garcia","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115734644892078555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}