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ALBANY, N.Y . (AP) — The New York Daily News on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policy regarding deletion of emails. As state attorney general, Andrew Cuomo saw f...

(TNS) Hillary Clinton is finally dropping serious hints about running for president, at a time when her favorability ratings are so high, the New York...

NEW YORK (AP) — Certain that they are right, struggling to find ways to get their message across, public health officials are exasperated by their ina...

(TNS) President Barack Obama may be on the verge of striking a historic deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program — that is unless Democrats scuttle it. Ye...

(TNS) Since President Barack Obama asked Congress in February for a new authorization for use of military force against Islamic State, the proposal ha...

It’s funny how the very people who typically complain about government handouts now have their hands out. On Jan. 22, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This was never happily-ever-after waiting to happen. When President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took ...

(TNS) HOMER, Alaska — Is this mortifying era of northern overexposure ever going to end? Here in Alaska, TV crews have been everywhere the last few ye...

(TNS) We invent the tools that we use to create the world we live in; in turn, the tools that we surround ourselves with sometimes take on a life of t...

(TNS) Here’s the strange but sad part about Brian Williams, Rand Paul, Bill O’Reilly and Robert McDonald: Each had legitimate bona fides in the very c...

(TNS) How do Americans feel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress next month? According to one new poll, moresupportit t...

I f I had bumped into Jim Burgeson on the street I would not have known him and, I am reasonbly sure, he would not have known me. But I do feel as if ...

(TNS) Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar — and sometimes it’s not. I couldn’t help thinking of Sigmund Freud’s purported quote as I listened to Preside...

ALBANY (AP) — The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on the problem of abandoned properties. Each day an abandoned property facing foreclosure goes unmainta...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Is the U.S. moving too slowly to tap its offshore energy reserves?” (TNS) There’s something for...

YOLO! That's slang for "You only live once," and the phrase was popularized by the rapper Drake in his 2011 hit song "The Motto." (We had to look that...

HAVANA (AP) — Rolling toward customs with a 60-pound suitcase filled with clothing and electronics for friends, my stomach clenched when a female agen...

(TNS) Frank Underwood of Netflix’s “House of Cards” may seem like America’s most corrupt politician. He will stop at nothing, not even murder, to adva...