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Adams announced Thursday that he won’t seek the Democratic nomination for mayor and instead run as an independent in this fall’s general election — a move that drastically reshapes the dynamic of the...
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Adams said he'd hoped to "fight" for those values in the Democratic primary, but that the legal battle over his recently-dismissed criminal corruption case "dragged on too long, making it impossible t...
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