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BELMONT — Two students from Genesee Valley Central School attended a leadership conference as part of the YMCA’s Youth and Government program. Senior ...

There have been lots of frightening things going on in the country. What is most scary, though, is the vast spending that our federal government seems...

KABUL, Afghanistan — With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, there’s a new enemy ascending. The Islamic State group threatens to usher in another vi...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Voters in New York will decide on five ballot proposals when they head to the polls Nov. 2 and the topics vary. Here’s a look at the ...

In the old days, the Committee on Open Government was an advocate for the people, even though it was couched in a government department overseen by th...

ALBANY (TNS) — Attorney General Letitia James’ office has issued a subpoena to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics for its records on Gov. And...

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced state Sen. Brian Benjamin as her choice for lieutenant governor Thursday in the senator’s Harlem district, whe...

In 2018, when there was talk he might run for president, Andrew Cuomo insisted there was only one reason he would leave office early. And it wasn’t th...

CUBA — Although last year’s pandemic delayed the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to v...

Last week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s longtime CEO and the wealthiest human on the planet, decided to treat himself to an extraordinary journey beyond the K...

Back in 2016, when expectations for change were running high in Cuba, I traveled to Havana and spoke with Cuban academics, artists, independent blogge...

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...

There are moments in each of our lives that are defining. Sometimes they are moments that change us, and sometimes they are moments in which we change...

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...

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...