“The house has been home to some of the greatest mayors in our city’s history,” Eric Adams tells Vanity Fair, “and it truly radiates that energy—and not just because of the ghost that haunts the halls.”

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, Murdochologist and VF special correspondent Gabriel Sherman reports how Rupert Murdoch divided and conquered his children.

“The SDNY has not exactly covered itself in glory lately,” says Elie Honig, who spent more than eight years as an assistant US Attorney in the office long considered the DOJ’s crown jewel. But prosecuting Nicolás Maduro might help with that.

Saturday night, Penn Social is your typical Washington DC dive filled with conservative 20-somethings. Come Sunday morning, it’s still a hot spot—by the name of King’s Church.

“I’m so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears, but no, it’s not the F-bomb that inflames matters,” he tells VF in the wake of Renee Nicole Good being shot by an immigration enforcement officer. “It’s the killing of a person that’s inflammatory. Obviously, right?”

On the Upper East Side, some of the city’s wealthiest Jewish residents remain hysterically opposed to Zohran Mamdani, in a rhetorical battle that is roiling the neighborhood—where the new mayor is now right next door.

The day after the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the secretary of Homeland Security was met with protests outside her press conference in the building that houses Vanity Fair’s offices.

In December, Vanity Fair published extensive interviews with Susie Wiles and other administration officials. Here are some further details from those conversations, given recent actions in Venezuela.

Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.

House Democrats are fighting efforts from the Trump White House to rewrite the history of the riot at the US Capitol. “It’s almost like trying to recreate 9/11 or Pearl Harbor with a positive spin,” one member of Congress tells Vanity Fair.

After Venezuela, the Trump administration apparently has set its sights on Greenland. But Icelandic singer Björk has a solution.

Following his dramatic capture, amplified by Donald Trump at every turn, the Venezuelan president arrived at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday.

In a press conference from Mar-a-Lago’s "Tea Room," Donald Trump said that Venezuela “stole our oil,” and that “We couldn’t let them get away with it.”

Speaking with Vanity Fair in November, the White House chief of staff said Donald Trump was “proud to be an agent of peace.”

Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores will face charges handed down in the Southern District of New York, says Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The newly inaugurated New York City mayor and his wife make a convincing pitch for aligning the new polish of public image with their progressive politics.

Now the democratic socialist has to translate campaign momentum into an ambitious and expensive agenda—while keeping President Donald Trump at bay.

Donald Trump might have changed the signs at the Kennedy Center, but a URL that reflects its new name might be more elusive.

The note, which the Department of Justice released, said it was investigating, and then declared fake, was postmarked three days after Epstein’s death and references “our president”—Donald Trump at the time—having an interest in “young, nubile girls.” Another newly released document also appears to reference Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

A marathon pretrial proceeding in the accused health care CEO killer’s state murder case brought Marc and Karen Friedman Agnifilo into the spotlight surrounding their client.