Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Puerto Rico-born Councilwoman, has been elected as speaker of the New York City Council.

Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara is leaving the world of acting in order to pursue a political career as mayor of L.A.

Álvarez has beat out two other candidates for the Democratic ticket. Now he trails Republican Kevin Faulconer by 1 percentage point in the polls.

With a 15-year MLB career in the rear view mirror, former Tigers and White Sox outfielder Magglio Ordóñez is now looking to make his mark in the political arena as he was recently elected mayor of Venezuelan city Sotillo.

The mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, was dismissed from his position by the Attorney General of Colombia, who banned him from any executive power for 15 years following his disastrous management of the city's waste disposal.

The NYC Mayoral Election results ended with Bill deBlasio destroying opponent Joe Lhota with a insurmountable lead. How will the Progressive mayor benefit the city?

Mexico City's mayor, Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa, met with New York's Michael Bloomberg to discuss a memorandum concerning the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

An article published in the New York Times on Sunday details the New York City mayoral hopeful’s involvement with groups promoting solidarity with Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government in the late 80s and early 90s. De Blasio made a brief visit to the country in 1988 to volunteer at a rural health clinic as the leftist Sandinista government waged war against a US-financed counterrevolutionary insurgency.

"Mayor Bloomberg seems to think that showing up in a photo with your black wife is racist, and that addressing the stark inequality that is plaguing our city is class war," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist in an ad spot created by the city's biggest union. "When Bloomberg looks at a photograph of de Blasio's family, he thinks racism. Me, I just think New York."

The mayor of Homestead, Florida, was taken away from his home Wednesday in handcuffs on corruption charges, including accepting illegal compensation, becoming the third mayor of a Miami-Dade County city after Michael Pizzi and Julio Robaina to be arrested in the past month.

Lenin Carballido Morales, who last Sunday became mayor of the Oaxaca municipality of San Agustín Amatengo, was arrested on Tuesday night for faking his own death in 2010 in an attempt to evade rape charges stemming from a 2004 incident.

And here we thought Mexican politicians and their relatives had learned that everything they do is going to become a media sensation, but apparently Jacqueline Galván, daughter of the mayor of Bustamante, Nuevo León, didn't get the memo.

Medrano, who won the July 7 mayoral elections in Fresnillo, Zacatecas -- a state ravaged by drug violence -- ran on a platform of providing strong public security. "It's not like I'm going to paint city hall pink," he says.

Joining the outrage followed by the release of Rolling Stone's August cover story, featuring the Boston Marathon Bombing suspect, Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino released a statement expressing disappointment and encouraging another angle.

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The clean-energy and IT-job entrepreneur and latest candidate to enter the New York City mayoral race says he’s a “Brooklyn native with a global reach”. He hopes his tech background can help him expand wealth farther into the boroughs and turn New York City into one of the world’s urban-planning vanguards.

"If the Lord doesn't watch over the city, its guard watches over it in vain, which is why with profound respect and reverence, I humbly ask of God, with this community as witness, that he enter into this city and make of it his habitation", said Arellanes at an event organized by an alliance of pastors.

Morris the cat is running for Mayor of Xalapa and his followers and fan base only keep growing. Will this cat beat his human opponents in the July 7 elections?

A mayor in Japan issued an apology after saying the "comfort women" system was necessary during WWII.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is reportedly out of a job and out of a permanent home.

The mayor of the British town, St. Edmundsbury rammed his car into the front of his local grocery store

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., released a video officially announcing his candidacy for the Big Apple's mayorship.

"I am confident that I saw Rob Ford smoking crack," said the editor of the website Gawker of a video shown to him by a man alleged to be part of Toronto's drug underground.

The Mayor of New Jersey's second largest city recently recounted an incident which resulted in nude photographs of him being taken.

Outspoken critic of the cost of living in America Jimmy McMillan III has decided to run for mayor of New York City.

Vociferous Democrat Anthony Weiner is back on Twitter after his previous nefarious posts on the online media site.

The Queen of England nearly got sliced by the Lord Mayor of London, UK.

Disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner is eyeing public office -- this time in New York's City Hall.

A group of politicians including Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, Gov. Daniel Scioli, Social Welfare Minister Alicia Kirchner and the mayors of Buenos Aires and La Plata were heckled as they visited with residents on Thursday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a bill banning the display of tobacco products in stores.