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Mayor Eric Adams compared himself to the Bible’s long-suffering Job and asked a local bishop to “pray for me” when at two Brooklyn churches Sunday — days after the feds targeted some of his top lieutenants. Adams hit the Power and Authority Evangelical Ministry on Sheffield Avenue and then the Changing Lives Christian Center on Linden Boulevard and spoke at both houses of worship about the Book of Job, calling it “my favorite story.” “I had many Job moments in my life,” Hizzoner said at the Power and Authority Church, giving a nod to the famously persecuted Biblical character and...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Mayor-elect Jerry Sanders said Wednesday he wants to talk to federal investigators this week about how to end long-running probes of potential wrongdoing at City Hall. Sanders, a Republican former police chief making his first run for public office, decisively defeated maverick Councilwoman Donna Frye Tuesday in the city's third mayoral election in a year. Sanders, 55, raised about three times more money than Frye, 53, who came within a whisker of being elected mayor in November as a write-in candidate. She finished first in a July primary after Dick Murphy resigned, but the Democrat fell...