Commentary

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If there's one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, it's that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, J...

What were the odds when the sports industry married the gaming industry that the union would eventually produce a scandal? And now it has arrived. The...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (TNS) — The government shutdown rests squarely on the shoulders of Democrats. After getting shellacked at the polls in 2024, they’ve ...

Protect the Adirondacks supports Proposal 1 to amend   Article 14, Section 1,  the “forever wild” clause of the New York State Constitution, to author...

“Youth Have Seen Enough Tobacco” was the slogan for Seen Enough Tobacco Day, an annual day of action Oct. 13 in New York and led by youth members of R...

The government shutdown is partly a fight over tax cuts everyday Americans receive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which remains a cornerstone of affo...

ALBANY — A recent analysis by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) lamented the declining state of U.S. education by highlighting how sc...

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, is one of the last of his kind in Congress. Elected in 2012 amid the Tea Party movement, Massie has been a ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The U.S. Labor Department is sounding a stark warning that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has devastated the ranks ...

Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponizati...

The federal deficit was $1.8 trillion in fiscal year 2025, according to preliminary estimates published by the Congressional Budget Office. That’s $8 ...

The United States earned its independence by fighting a war to protest various indignities imposed by the crown, including levies that prompted the co...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be. This isn’t a lament, it’s a fact: As Bloomberg News reported recently, almost one-fifth...

PRINCETON, Ill. (TNS) — I was struck, no, dumbfounded by this: Debt funded all federal government spending in 2025. The federal government plans to sp...

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. The day he received his presidential honor w...

We’re coming off National Fire Safety and Prevention Week when numerous area fire departments throughout the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions he...

ALBANY (AP) — New York's Republican State Committee on Friday suspended a Young Republican organization following the release of a group chat that inc...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made no secret about his animosity toward the media. But his demand that press outlets pledge not to report “una...