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ALBANY — In the aftermath of the Buffalo shootings, state Sen. George Borrello called on his legislative colleagues to pass a measure he sponsors with...

NEW YORK — A court-appointed expert released a draft of new congressional maps for New York that are more favorable to Republicans than the original g...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul took heat Thursday from a pair of primary opponents with very different ideas about her proposed bail changes. Long I...

As New York Democrats propose cracking down on gun trafficking amid a crime wave, the area’s state senator has a different proposal. Sen. George Borre...

American voters have been trying to tell political parties and elected officials what they want, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t want. T...

ALBANY (TNS) — For years, New Yorkers could count on Andrew Cuomo having more campaign cash than any politician in the state. That was one of the defi...

Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York politicians uniformly and swiftly offered condolences following the death of a New York Police Department officer in a shootin...

Spoken word performer Gil Scott-Heron famously said: “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.” This truism came to mind recently as ...

While President Joe Biden, beleaguered by the unrelenting pandemic, spiraling inflation and myriad other domestic and foreign policy problems is seein...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Lawmakers started the new year with a thumbs down for redistricting maps and made election-related bills their top priority Monday as t...

On the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol Thursday, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said it was “one of the darkest days of my congressional ca...

ALBANY — New York’s Democrat-controlled Legislature will make key decisions in 2022 on everything from the roll-out of recreational marijuana sales to...

ALBANY — The leader of New York’s state university system, Chancellor James Malatras, said Thursday he will resign amid criticism for sending text mes...

Two tiresome realities about being president of the United States: First, everybody blames you for things over which you have little or no control, su...

ALBANY (TNS) — A real estate mogul with close ties to Lt. Gov. Brian A. Benjamin has been arrested in connection with a campaign finance scheme that a...

ALBANY (TNS) — The rejection of a constitutional amendment that would have tweaked the state’s troubled redistricting process has left reform advocate...