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Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about their prospects in the 2020 election. Some saw Joe ...

Staffers in the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked on a private poll while on the taxpayer dime. The Times Union obtained emails showing that Melissa ...

Fresh, clean water is the very foundation of all life. Without it, nothing — human, plant or animal — can survive. For far too long, our neighbors bot...

To our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world: As-salaamu ‘alaykum! (Peace be with you!) More than a year has passed has since the COVID-19 ...

Dire COVID predictions about end of mask mandate were way off. Let’s be glad for that Recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged something truly shockin...

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ever sets up a presidential exploratory committee, it should have to disclose an enormous in-kind contribution from CBS N...

And just like that, the effort to organize nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., was defeated. The announcement Friday mornin...

I needed a meeting — with myself and maybe the CEO of the universe — and not where I’ve lived and worked, often in isolation, for the past year. This ...

Last week, we saw another horrific anti-Asian assault on video. A 65-year-old woman was walking to church in New York City when she was brutally attac...

Joe Biden wants to help us all, although he hasn’t figured out how to do it yet. Of course, it’s early in his presidency and maybe he will learn if he...

It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls w...

How do you make $351,000 from $1? The answer to that question depends on who you talk to. In the mid-1990s I learned that Cattaraugus County wanted to...

If you are a New York resident and are 16 or older, you can now be vaccinated against COVID-19. This is a huge step in working toward reaching herd im...

Courteney Ross, girlfriend to George Floyd, spoke through tears as she sat surrounded by a plexiglass divider in a courtroom on April 1 during former ...

Why do the Russians need to bother spreading disinformation when our own domestic sources do a much better job at it? We just went through a four-year...

ALBANY (TNS) — In recent days, we learned that staffers in Andrew Cuomo’s office helped produce the governor’s coronavirus book, “American Crisis: Lea...

How Texas fetal heartbeat bill advances cause — perhaps all the way to Supreme Court For millions of parents the world over, the image of a tiny heart...

Joe Biden is racing against time. “We have to move now,” he said last week as he unveiled his giant $2 trillion-plus economic plan. “We can’t delay an...