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PHOENIX — The Democratic base is angry. Not just at President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the "Make America Great Again" movement. Rank-and-file Democ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won't resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forw...

Under the heading of How is this not already illegal? comes the latest effort in Congress to prohibit sitting lawmakers from trading stocks. In an era...

SCHENECTADY (TNS) — Saving the best for (nearly) last, Sen. Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer touched down in Schenectady on Sunday to close out one ...

Every time I hear somebody say that America’s contemporary political climate is uniquely violent, I wonder, “Where were you during the Nixon years?” T...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended last week’s Met Gala wearing a dress emblazoned with the slogan “Tax the Rich.” It’s certainly catchier than wh...

BUFFALO — If a majority of voters, along with the four-term incumbent, mostly ignored political newcomer India Walton’s campaign for mayor during the ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. House Democrats from New York are threatening to oppose future tax legislation unless it includes a repeal of the state and lo...

Sen. Joe Manchin, the self-styled conservative Democrat from West Virginia, is driving progressives crazy — and he doesn’t seem to mind. Manchin says ...

ALBANY (TNS) — A new cadre of progressive lawmakers from the five boroughs are heading to Albany. More than half a dozen insurgent candidates sailed t...

In the real world — that is to say, the non-televised part of our lives remote from social media — we would shun somebody who went around spreading ug...

War is not a game. But impressionable kids may not be able to tell the difference if the U.S. military continues its esports recruitment. The U.S. Arm...

NEW YORK (AP) — The official death toll from the coronavirus soared in New York City on Tuesday after health authorities began including people who pr...

I have mixed feelings about Jay Ambrose's column in the May 19 edition of the Olean Times Herald. I was born in 1935 and for 60 years after that, "agg...

(TNS) So-called progressives just killed 25,000 to 40,000 high-quality jobs coming to New York City. So-called progressives just shredded plans that w...

ALBANY (AP) — Up against an entrenched incumbent with a $30 million war chest, Cynthia Nixon is taking inspiration from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's lon...

NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump's party came together, a 28-year-old liberal activist ousted top House Democrat Joe Crowley in the president's hometow...