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Democracy is under threat — the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worr...

The polls won’t close for more than a week, but there already is plenty of spin casting blame and taking credit for midterm wins and losses. Yet as mi...

Joe Biden wants voters to focus on abortion rights. Last week, just three weeks before the midterm elections, the president said that if Democrats do ...

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo isn’t begging for forgiveness. Fourteen months after resigning from office in a sexual harassment scandal, the former New York...

There was an extraordinary Senate debate this week in Orem, Utah, between Sen. Mike Lee and challenger Evan McMullin. It was extraordinary in part bec...

With the polls in many key midterm races agonizingly close, victory or defeat in November will hinge largely on a single question: are Americans merel...

ALBANY (TNS) — A court case brought by state Republican and Conservative leaders that is challenging a law change that has allowed voters to use absen...

In response to a press conference by a group of Upstate Assembly Democrats decrying the lowering of the overtime threshold for farm workers, state Sen...

One of the most significant events in American politics is that Hispanics are, in effect, deciding that they are working-class voters rather than ethn...

Joe Biden’s highly touted political comeback is failing to live up to the hype. He’s up from his midsummer trough of an approval rating that averaged ...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Bringing his campaign for governor to the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania Wednesday, state Sen. Doug Mastriano attempted to push back o...

ALBANY (TNS) — Walk into any supermarket and you’ll find a variety of breakfast cereals to match nearly any taste. Shop online and you can select, say...

If history is any guide, Democrats do not have a chance — not even a small a chance — of keeping control of the House in the midterm elections. But th...

There’s been a wave of violent crime the last couple of years, and the best way to address the issue is for everyone to pass over it in silence. That’...

The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a bill to reform how Congress certifies electors after a presidential election. That bill (or a sim...

I heard John Mayer’s “Daughters” playing in the grocery store recently, and though it had been years since I listened to the 2003 classic, the chorus ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday railed against what he called “revenge politics,’’ as liberals in the House and Senate team up with Republica...

There was a time when Senate Republicans were squarely behind a federal ban on late-term abortion. And it wasn’t long ago. When South Carolina Sen. Li...