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WASHINGTON (TNS) — Democrats’ path to Senate dominance and a chance to name New York Sen. Charles Schumer the majority leader face dwindling odds as c...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer accuses Republicans of hypocritically trashing precedent to quickly transform the top court ...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice...

If more than 4.4 million infected Americans and more than 151,000 deaths didn’t fully drive home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic for Presiden...

CHICAGO (TNS) — We should thank Donald Trump for skipping Congressman John Lewis’ farewell ceremony. While his absence from the memorial in the Capito...

Millions are unemployed, public budgets are falling apart, the economy is struggling, and the COVID-19 epidemic is raging anew — and most of the $2.7 ...

PENN YAN — Democratic congressional candidate Tracy Mitano went after Rep. Tom Reed Thursday for failing to support the U.S. House’s HEROES Act and ne...

OLEAN — Citing loss of revenue and increased costs due to COVID-19, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allo...

New York’s two Democratic U.S. senators, the governor — even Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Reed — fired back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s su...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rebuked Minority Leader Charles Schumer on the Senate floor Thursday morning for his controve...

Sen. Chuck Schumer secured nearly $34 million Wednesday in immediate coronavirus emergency funding for New York as Congress inched closer to approving...

With the matter of impeachment of President Donald Trump soon to be in the hands of the U.S. Senate, New York’s two Democratic senators are girding fo...

As we come off the elections of 2019, it’s imperative that we seriously think of the direction we want our country to go for the 2020 elections and be...

ALBANY (TNS ) — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and 11 other Democratic governors have urged President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to...

(TNS) WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell uses a favorite Southernism when he explains why shutting down the federal government is b...

Am I the only American who feels like I’m watching a bad Three Stooges movie when I read about the battle in Washington over Donald Trump’s demand for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Republicans are telling President Donald Trump in ever blunter terms to lay off his escalating criticism of special counsel Rob...