ethics

Progressives insist that Donald Trump will turn the United States into an authoritarian state if voters return him to the White House. They should pay...

NEW YORK — Judge Juan M. Merchan looked across his high-ceilinged courtroom, facing the defendant in a complicated case. Not the one everyone knows ab...

To the “Class of 2024,” it is important to understand our history as a nation lest we repeat the ills of our early development as a nation. Considerin...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the newest threat to democracy, but they’re part of a longstanding family o...

With New York’s current watchdog facing legal peril, state lawmakers need to start working toward a constitutional change A New Yorker born at the tur...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Fani Willis should have known better. It doesn’t take a law degree to know that the appearance of impropriety can be just as damaging ...

Donald Trump has just a few weeks to find a way to pay, or guarantee that he will pay, the $355 million fine that a New York judge imposed on him in t...

OLEAN — Harold “Sandy” and Connie Wolfinger, among the Olean YMCA’s 38th annual Salute to Olean honorees, have been called a couple whose passion for ...

Former Olean resident Mildred Milliman had a passion for philanthropy, and her giving spirit is still positively impacting the Olean community. The Mi...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The field of cancer biology is a mess. Signs of trouble emerged years before the most recent scandal, in which investigators found ev...

ALBANY — Months after a judge ruled that New York’s ethics watchdog violated the state constitution because it was too independent, a state lawyer tol...

Mark Zuckerberg is very sorry. His apology at a Senate hearing to the families of victims of online child sex abuse was dramatic, and the human thing ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Whether working full time for themselves or part time as contractors, picking up occasional gig work, or having a side hustle, an e...

NEDROW (TNS) — An Onondaga Central School District resource officer has resigned after he left his duty belt and firearm in a school restroom, police ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — A Central New York business owned by a white man has filed a lawsuit against New York’s cannabis management agency accusing it of rac...

ALBANY — The U.S. Justice Department concluded former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed more than a dozen state employees, according to a s...

John Fetterman, as someone put it, is doing a Bulworth in reverse. Bulworth was a fictional California senator in the 1990s movie of the same name who...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Those who volunteer to prepare large quantities of food for the public may want to attend a Penn State Extension workshop titled “C...