UPDATE: (as of Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8:55 a.m.) --Timothy Granison, the husband of Mayor Lovely Warren, is in police custody and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning on drugs and weapons charges, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Granison was reportedly the target of a State Police raid Wednesday evening on the home he shares with the mayor and their daughter.

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Warren is in the midst of running for a third term in office and is facing a challenge from City Councilmember Malik Evans for the Democratic ticket in the primary elections scheduled for June 22.

She is currently under indictment on felony campaign fraud charges. That case is pending in state court. The Associated Press reported that a representative for the Monroe County District Attorney said Wednesday’s police activity at Warren's home was not connected to that case.

House GOP divisions were on full display Wednesday as dozens of Republicans broke with their party leadership and former President Donald Trump to support a proposed commission investigating the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol.

The measure, which would task a bipartisan 10-person commission with delivering a report on the causes and facts of the insurrection by the end of the year, passed the House by a 252-175 vote with every Democrat and 35 Republicans in support.

It now heads to an uncertain future in the 50-50 Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’ll oppose the legislation.

The big bipartisan vote was a major rebuke to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who worked hard to minimize the brewing rebellion in his ranks over the commission. During the vote, McCarthy huddled in the back of the chamber with his staff, watching the vote tally tick upward as Republican after Republican registered their “yes” vote.

New York City’s mayoral contest is currently a tight race between Eric Adams and Andrew Yang, with Adams narrowly winning on the final ranked-choice ballot, according to a mid-May poll of likely Democratic primary voters conducted for the Manhattan Institute.*

The survey shows a fluid race, with Yang edging Adams by a single point (19 percent to 18 percent) when primary voters are asked to rank their first choice. Kathryn Garcia, the city’s former sanitation commissioner, runs third, with the backing of 11 percent of likely voters, just ahead of Maya Wiley at 10 percent. Garcia, fresh off her New York Times endorsement, outpaces the rest of the field as the candidate likely voters have become most interested in learning about over the past few weeks.

Behind these four, at 8 percent, sits Scott Stringer, the city’s comptroller, who has recently come under fire from sexual-misconduct allegations. Businessman Ray McGuire is tied with nonprofit executive Dianne Morales at 6 percent, while Shaun Donovan, the former Obama cabinet secretary, lags at 4 percent. Uniquely, this poll tested all 13 Democratic candidates, including Paperboy Love Prince and Isaac Wright, who both polled around 1 percent each. In all, 14 percent of likely Democratic primary voters remain undecided on the top pick for mayor.

The Manhattan Institute’s analysis of the candidate rankings in this poll finds that, after ten rounds of a recalculated ballot under the ranked-choice system, Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, places first, followed by Yang and Wiley. The eleventh and final round confirms Adams ahead of Yang, 52 percent to 48 percent.

The Republican Party chairs of Texas and Wyoming have flirted with secession from the United States. Oklahoma’s Republican chair has called Islam a “cancer.” The Oregon GOP called the Capitol insurrection a “false flag” operation. And at least 19 Republican state chairs—including most of the ones in key swing states—publicly pushed former President Trump’s big lie about the election.

A VICE News review of public positions of all 50 GOP state chairs shows a significant number are openly pushing conspiracy theories, spouting unhinged rhetoric, and actively undermining voters’ trust in democracy. That includes the chairs of nearly every swing state in the U.S. And the trend is accelerating: Many of the most extreme chairs just won their chairmanships or have been reelected since Trump left office four months ago, a number of them with his explicit endorsement.

Liz Cheney’s ouster from GOP party leadership showed how much Trump retains his stranglehold on the GOP on the national stage. But the overwhelming wins by Trump loyalists in the first widespread internal Republican elections since Trump left office, albeit in small contests chosen by a hardcore, activist subset of the GOP base, show that his conspiratorial claims about the election run even deeper in the states than in Washington—and will guide the grassroots for years to come.

“I don’t know why people are sitting around expecting that somehow this is going to fix itself,” said Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee’s national chairman from 2009-2011 and a fierce Trump critic. “It won’t fix itself because Donald Trump won’t allow it to be fixed. And people who back Donald Trump and all the stuff that comes with it, they think they're right, they think this is working, they think this is what a party should be like.”

JetBlue Airways Corp. said Wednesday it will enter the transatlantic market, starting Aug. 11 with service between New York's JFK airport and London's Heathrow Airport (LHR). The air carrier will expand its service from JFK to London's Gatwick Airport (LGW) on Sept. 29. The carrier will also start service to London from Boston in the summer of 2022. Tickets are now on sale for London flights from JFK, starting at $599 roundtrip for U.S.-based travelers, and at $1,979 roundtrip for the premium "Mint" service. JFK-LHR, the single largest international air travel market from the US, has long suffered from outrageously high fares for far too long, especially in premium cabins," said Chief Executive Robin Hayes. "We're ready to change that with a price point and experience that will impress even the most discerning transatlantic flyers."

Less than 24 hours after the Senate passed its massive pandemic relief package during a marathon session in early March, Raphael Warnock was back in Atlanta doing what he’s done for years — preaching in a church.

Donning his kente cloth-trimmed minister’s robe, the senator from Georgia smiled as he slowly walked to the pulpit to the tones of an organ emanating bluesy chords.

“There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place. There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this virtual space.”

Warnock is here most Sundays in his role as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The tall red brick church sits largely empty for the livestreamed service due to coronavirus restrictions.

Federal investigators interviewed the chairman of the state Senate Health Committee as part of its probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic — including his $5.1 million book deal, The Post has learned.

State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-The Bronx) said Tuesday that he was invited to the FBI’s Brooklyn headquarters earlier this month and interviewed for nearly three hours by agents and prosecutors from the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office.

“We talked about a little bit of everything — mostly the governor’s interaction with the legislature throughout the pandemic,” Rivera told The Post.

The investigators also asked Rivera for records to corroborate what he told them, which he agreed to provide, he said.