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President Joe Biden has signed what may well end up being the biggest accomplishment of his presidency, an enormous $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. W...

WASHINGTON (TNS)— The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package heading to President Joe Biden’s desk directs $1,400 payouts to millions of Ameri...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — U.S. Sen. Kirsten believes that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package being debated in Washington will include tax credits for ch...

ALBANY — New York's Democratic-led Assembly plans to pass legislation Tuesday to help workers and small businesses financially survive the coronavirus...

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...

ALBANY — New York will freeze evictions and certain foreclosures for two months under a bill the governor said Monday he plans to sign. Renters who ar...

Public approval of Congress sank to just 15% in the latest Gallup poll, but lawmakers are determined to find out how low they can go. That’s one expla...

For a bill that’s supposed to rescue struggling Americans and boost the economy in the midst of a worsening pandemic, the 11th-hour deal Congress agre...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said New York will receive more than $50 billion in various forms of relief from a massive C...

Give bipartisan supermajorities in the House and Senate credit for passing a defense spending bill that outright ignores juvenile and divisive demands...

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers that included U.S. Rep. Tom Reed unveiled a detailed COVID-19 aid proposal on Monday in hopes it would se...

One of the more appalling moments in the recent history of the House of Representatives occurred recently in the Capitol Visitor Center. Speaker Nancy...

ALBANY — For retired teacher Katherine Sweeney, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is the Pension Grinch. The governor this week vetoed a bill that would have corre...

ALBANY (TNS) — National Grid customers are having a difficult time paying their bills amid the global pandemic that has led to large-scale layoffs and...

ALBANY (TNS) — Reducing the use of solitary confinement in prisons could saveNew Yorkand its localities $132 million annually over the next 10 years, ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — New legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand aims to tackle health disparities in communities of color, the LGBTQ comm...

The chickens have come home to roost. Remember the New York legislators who stood up and cheered when a bill was passed in Albany to allow for abortio...

As this anything-but-normal NFL season reaches the quarter pole, the unbeaten Bills are facing their most interesting game to date. On Sunday afternoo...