New York City Mayor Eric Adams is holding a news conference Tuesday, hours after a Department of Justice official said the agency ordered the corruption case against him to be dismissed. Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed prosecutors for the Southern District of New York to dismiss all charges against the mayor,

The request to dismiss the charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York raised questions about the independence of federal prosecutors under President Trump.

A memo said charges and investigations against Adams distracted the New York mayor from efforts to assist in the administration’s law-and-order priorities.