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MANHASSET (AP) — The FBI searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. The former staffer, Linda Sun, has n...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Tuesday officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harr...

Not that we needed another poll to tell us that New York state is getting increasingly more unaffordable, but recent statewide polling from the Siena ...

In a little more than a week, American politics have been rocked by seismic events — from the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Joe Biden never hid his ambition to be president, or the chip he carried on his shoulder from feeling underestimated for most of hi...

New York Democratic officials, including some who were behind the scenes trying to get President Joe Biden to step aside in the 2024 presidential race...

New York Democratic officials, including some who were behind the scenes trying to get President Joe Biden to step aside in the 2024 presidential race...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — She's already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelect...

Federal prosecutors have accused a Randolph postal employee of stealing gift cards from mail passing through the Randolph post office. Melissa Olson, ...

Congress amended federal law this year to give increased oversight to the Architect of the Capitol agency following allegations against its former dir...

President Joe Biden left Las Vegas on Wednesday after testing positive for COVID. Before flying back to Washington, he spent his time ramping up his e...

OLEAN — The city charter commission will explore changes to the current government structure, rather than shifting many of the current mayoral powers ...

ALBANY (TNS) — The Hochul administration will close two upstate New York maximum security prisons citing a continuing overall drop in the incarcerated...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will have a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion this year, $400 billion more than was...

ALLEGANY — A New York City attorney is appealing rulings allowing the state to arbitrarily invoke quarantine rules as well as place an amendment on th...

ALLEGANY — Dave Decker was watching a live news feed as former President Donald Trump had opened his speech Saturday evening at a campaign rally in Bu...

Inflation has slowed over the last year, but area counties and towns will again be hit by the property tax cap. The Office of the State Comptroller re...