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It's not easy to run a hideous dictatorship and still have fans and defenders in fashionable quarters, but the Castro regime has managed it for decade...

Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuits against Twitter, Google and Facebook for kicking him off their platforms are sure losers, legally speaking. T...

At first, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 seemed like enough of a reward. You got the satisfaction of protecting your health and that of the peopl...

ALBANY — The fate of a bill to give people sexually abused as adults a chance to sue the perpetrators was unclear Thursday when it unanimously passed ...

BELIVDERE — Reports that Great Lakes Cheese has terminated talks on a $500 million production facility could not be confirmed, but state officials sai...

Between our two families, we are raising 11 children. Under the American Families Plan, we could start collecting up to $33,600 per year in child paym...

On New Year’s Eve of 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” premiered, featuring lovable corsairs relegated to the eponymous Cornish seasi...

ALBANY — There’s no easy path for New York to win a legal fight with the U.S. Census Bureau over its narrow loss of a Congressional seat, but Gov. And...

ALBANY (TNS) — Since the 1980’s, when Evan Davis served as counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo, cycles of scandal and reform have played out in a familiar Alb...

BELVIDERE — An online petition and in-person rally are planned to seek a halt to eminent domain proceedings for a $500 million cheese plant in Allegan...

In an ideal world powered by an ideal economy, extension of and improvements to America’s infrastructure would be developer-driven. But the ideal is s...

Great Lakes Cheese is threatening to leave the area if we don’t concede. Using eminent domain is an example of government power against private citize...

The government of Canada has imposed sanctions on nine high-ranking Russian officials for “gross and systematic human rights abuses.” The most promine...

Newspapers are celebrating Sunshine Week, an occasion revered by journalists across America but, more correctly, the gift to every American, whether t...

WASHINGTON — The nation is poised to get a third vaccine against COVID-19, but because at first glance the Johnson & Johnson shot may not be seen as e...

ALBANY (TNS) — Eleven members of the state Democratic Committee have offered a resolution to have their organization vote to formally censure Gov. And...

ALBANY (TNS) — Although coronavirus vaccine supply to New York has increased and the state is working to expand opportunities for getting the shot, th...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...