human rights

OLEAN — City court officials want to issue warrants for those who fail to appear on local charges. The Common Council’s committee of the whole on Tues...

SCHENECTADY (TNS) — The proposed Equal Rights Amendment that would change the state constitution has become a lightning rod for political controversy ...

ALBANY (TNS) — In November, New Yorkers will vote on a constitutional amendment that would codify reproductive rights and protection from identity-bas...

Americans’ views on free speech change directions every so often. One of those times was during the protests at U.S. universities about the Israel-Ham...

MINEOLA — Lawmakers in a suburban New York county have approved a bill to ban masks in public places with exemptions for people who cover their faces ...

ALBANY (TNS) — A nine-member commission has the next year to study how reparations could be offered to descendants of enslaved people inNew York. The ...

ALBANY — A proposed amendment to New York’s Constitution that’s intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any m...

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...

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this N...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Republicans have adopted a platform , in advance of the party convention next week in Milwaukee, that might manage to be a s...

OLEAN — A city native has written a historical book exploring a crucial moment in American history that marked the beginning of the end of slavery. “T...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal for a new ban on face coverings raises irresolvable constitutional and enforcement concerns. When she took office during ...

MINEOLA (AP) — A county legislature outside New York City has voted to bar transgender female athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s teams at cou...

Americans concerned about the U.S. Supreme Court’s views on abortion may have been confused on Thursday when the court issued a unanimous ruling that ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system due to concerns about people s...

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WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official o...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul calls it a “priority” to seek passage of legislation that would prohibit social media companies from collecting perso...