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State Attorney General Tish James is getting headlines for what seems like a solid new lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly failing to protect warehou...

Siemens Energy’s decision to abandon its Olean manufacturing operations will decimate a community that’s faithfully supported the facility for more th...

It wasn’t so long ago that the big public health crisis facing the nation was opioid abuse and the overdose deaths that were so frequently its result....

New York (TNS) — The walls are starting to fall in on Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And he’s got nobody to blame but himself. Cuomo can’t hide from the deadly co...

Washington, D.C., is not, counter to what you might think, a war zone. The city isn’t divided down the middle between the forces of the United States ...

Governor, do you recall how your brother was so offended when critics called him Fredo? Or your father’s famous rage at media talk of the mafia? But i...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday almost apologized for stonewalling the release of full and accurate information on the COVID-19 deaths o...

“We found a baby girl for your adoption, but there are some things you will need to know. She’s in Siberia, and she was born with a rare condition. He...

Apple has delivered on a promise to clarify and curtail what data from users is gathered by apps. Instead of a lengthy privacy agreement in fine print...

It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, e...

As the House impeachment managers made their case that former President Donald Trump made blatantly false statements about a stolen election for the p...

It’s an old political trick to make an easily achievable goal sound vauntingly ambitious in order to brag about it when it’s inevitably met. It takes ...

I was a married adult with a child when I first stepped onto a college campus as a student. I’d been around college life for a few years having gone i...

It seems like a solution that’s almost too simple: Make more COVID-19 vaccines available by allowing one of the drug manufacturers to increase the amo...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

If the need for universal, affordable high-speed internet service wasn’t apparent before the COVID-19 pandemic, it surely is now. So why would Gov. An...

On Jan. 21, President Biden’s first full day in office, White House press secretary Jen Psaki began her briefing with this: “When the president asked ...

The Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump is unprecedented: It’s the first time a president has been tried twice, and the first time an ex-presid...