Charles Rangel, the former Democratic congressman from New York who championed his Harlem community on Capitol Hill for almost five decades, died Monday.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday on federal charges of defrauding the city while trying to keep her romantic relationship with a police officer a secret, prosecutors said.

Jared Kushner's private equity firm Affinity is dropping out of a group that planned to help finance Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.