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Earlier this month, I delivered my State of the State address for 2017. This annual message is an opportunity for the governor to lay out his initiatives, priorities and goals to meet the needs of New Yorkers for the coming year. There is rarely a clear consensus on every initiative. But on the issue of women's rights, almost all New Yorkers agree: Equality for women -- true equality -- shouldn't simply be a goal for 2017. It must be a right.

Take a look at the week in politics from January 15 through January 21.

President Donald Trump signed formal nominations for his Cabinet. However, things got awkward when he started handing out the pens to those in attendance.

President Donald Trump had his day of pageantry and night of revelry. He saw the Senate confirm his nominees to helm the defense and homeland security departments, signed an executive order pulling back on the Affordable Care Act and called for a regulatory freeze.

On board the Acela with former Vice President Joe Biden immediately after the inauguration. He took his signature mode of transportation home to Delaware.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer fired back at the media for the way they reported the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration, saying it was inaccurate.

A Westwego, Louisiana, police officer driving home from work early Friday was shot and killed after he stopped to check on what he thought was a car accident.

Protests in Mexico continued against the new US President, Donald Trump. CNN's Leyla Santiago has the story.

"That's what you guys should be writing and covering," new White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily lectured reporters on Saturday during his first remarks from the podium of the press briefing room.

At least two Canadians say they were turned away at the US border after revealing that they intended to go to the Women's March.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer fired back at the media for the way they reported the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump enjoy three inaugural balls.

From Paris to Antarctica, people across the globe took to the streets following Trump's inauguration.

President Donald Trump started and finished a speech he gave at the CIA headquarters Saturday afternoon by criticizing the "dishonest media." Several of the things he said were inaccurate.

An imam who had been expected to deliver the Islamic call to prayer at a National Prayer Service for President Donald Trump instead recited two verses from the Quran with a subtle but clear political resonance.

CIA officers tell CNN's Jim Sciutto that President Trump's speech at the CIA headquarters was "disrespectful."

Swelling music and angry rhetoric, straight from the Donald Trump inauguration playbook, were prominent Saturday as Europe's nationalist parties gathered under the banner "Europe of Nations and Freedom" -- their political bloc in the European Union parliament.

President Donald Trump gave remarks at CIA headquarters a day after being sworn-in as the 45th president.

It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017 as opposed to Barack Obama in 2009.