Opinion

ALBANY (TNS) — Seamus Donnelly is Troy's deputy mayor and a lifelong city resident. He's also gay. Donnelly, 38, came out when he was 25 and is now ma...

Less than 2½ years after George Santos rocketed from obscurity to being presented as the face of a young new GOP, the now-former Long Island con(gress...

Hollywood loves stories about unlikely heroes seemingly out of their element who step up and use their unique set of skills to save the day. Luke Skyw...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s first 100 days have confirmed the initial concerns about some of his most high-profile appointees. Another...

Markets have stabilized somewhat as President Donald Trump’s team negotiates trade deals with various nations and theWhite Housetempers its more extre...

NEW YORK (TNS) — AI companions programmed to forge emotional bonds are no longer confined to movie scripts. They are here, operating in a regulatory W...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The “queens” and “queers” of the kindergarten alphabet book “Pride Puppy” finally had their day before theSupreme Court. Predictabl...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History spent $18 million on its “Entertainment Nation” exhibit, which displayed a mask supposedly worn ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — More than a dozen private companies around the world are looking to profit from extreme measures to combat global warming — filling t...

NEW YORK — New Yorkers want a mental health system that is effective, just and benevolent. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to expand Kendra’s Law will ac...

LONDON (TNS) — The electrification of everything is the biggest shake up the global energy system has seen in decades. Unfortunately, the route to the...

ALBANY — A glitch in state insurance law is allowing doctors to collect Medicaid fees that are sometimes hundreds of times higher than the program nor...

It is troubling to hear the return of outdated rhetoric concerning the makeup of our military forces. The idea that the military should only consist o...

Every journey starts with a single step, but the cost of each step isn’t usually $935,000. That’s how much New York state will spend to repair each of...

Elon Musk is reportedly planning to spend less time tending to the budget-cutting DOGE project and more time on his businesses, according to Politico,...

WASHINGTON(TNS) — Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the rope in the tug-of-war between the Trump administration and progressiveDemocratswho d...

Thank you to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for publishing an analysis of the balance of payments between the 50 states and the federal government . T...

The filmography of writer/director Ryan Coogler isn’t too lengthy for someone who’s been in the business for only 12 years, but the five films he’s ma...