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On Friday, PresidentJoe Bidenannounced he was blocking the purchase ofU.S.Steel by Japanese steelmakerNippon Steelon dubious economic and national sec...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting...

Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign Affairs website to prais...

OLEAN — It is a year to “pivot to solutions” amid issues over taxes, crime and infrastructure, the city’s chief executive said Thursday. Mayor Bill Ai...

ALBANY — New York's attorney general appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to investigate the death of a man who was beaten by guards at a state pri...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Common Council and mayor were sworn in for the 2025–26 term Wednesday morning during a ceremony in the city courtroom. Altho...

He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdra...

Congress allocated at least $516 billion for federal programs with expired authorizations in fiscal year 2024, and likely far more, according to the C...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after o...

DEAR RUSTY: My wife will reach her full Social Security benefit at 66.5 years of age which is just under 2 years away for her now. If she were to begi...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you stacked up all of Donald Trump’s legal bills since his election in 2016, they’d reach Mars beforeElon Muskdoes. He’s paying...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My prediction that President Joe Biden would drop out was a rare bright spot among last year’s not totally serious predictions. Und...

ALBANY — Gov.Kathy Hochulsigned the Child Poverty Reduction Act three years ago, setting the ambitious target of cuttingNew York'schild poverty rates ...

As money from opioid settlements began being distributed across the U.S. this May, the Associated Press warned that “local governments may not have th...

ALBANY — They warned about him. Now they'll have to work with him. A handful of prominent Democratic governors, including New York's Kathy Hochul, are...

OLEAN — Those staying in Olean hotels and other short-term rentals will see their final bills go up 5% in 2025. The Common Council unanimously approve...

State Assemblyman-elect Joe Sempolinski, who will be sworn into office Jan. 7 in Albany, has been named the ranking Republican member of the Assembly'...

Local sales tax receipts continued to fluctuate in November, state officials said Tuesday. The Office of the State Comptroller reported that sales tax...