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The need for the unity that President Joe Biden called for Wednesday in his inaugural address was evident all around him at the Capitol and beyond. He...

President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. An amb...

Poor Justin Trudeau. The Canadian prime minister must have been relieved to be done with President Donald Trump, only to learn that Joe Biden plans to...

Whatever one thinks of the national news media, it seems clear that their insistence on reporting every detail of what President Trump has said or don...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York appears very likely to become the 15th state to legalize mobile sports betting this year, as leaders from the Legislature and ...

Lawmakers have had a key priority in the last nine months: to stimulate the American economy and provide relief to citizens facing the worst public he...

When Joe Biden is inaugurated today as the 46th president of the United States, he’ll face a nation torn by deep political and social divisions, and a...

What the current president has put asunder, let the next join back together: We speak of the United States’ sluggish COVID vaccine rollout. The vital ...

After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I wrote that the most important task for people — particularly those disconcerted by his election (as I was) —...

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that we can’t wait for New York to hit vaccine herd immunity before reopening businesses. He says that the pain caus...

I experience this strange sensation of time. Things I think happened a long time ago turn out to have been more recent. I might remember an event as j...

President Donald Trump finally did what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested — he plowed his plane into the g...

On Jan. 6, Upper Allegheny Health System announced that its member hospitals, Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital, will be res...

This year’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day comes less than two weeks after a violent white mob, inspired by entrenched racism and dressed u...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump will be out of office in less than a week. But Democrats and some Republicans, horrified by the deadly stormin...

How does a state that isn’t supposed to borrow money without voter approval still manage to borrow billions every year? When even New York legislators...

Last week’s Senate elections in Georgia — yes, it was only last week — qualified as life-changing news for President-elect Joe Biden, who knew that if...

The administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a reputation for secrecy, but even by the governor’s opaque standards the stonewalling around the issue of...