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HARRISBURG — Donald Trump's preferred candidate in Pennsylvania's Senate Republican primary was essentially tied with a more traditional rival, while ...

ALBANY — U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado will serve as New York’s next lieutenant governor, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday. Delgado, a Democra...

Maybe I’ve been fooled, but my inclination is to say confirm her. Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice because, during Senate hear...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s virtual address to House and Senate members Wednesday and the video he shared impa...

JAMESTOWN — State Sen. George M. Borrello officially announced he is seeking re-election to the New York State Senate to represent the 58th District. ...

ALBANY (TNS) — For a column about gerrymandering, it feels necessary to start with a few caveats. First, Republicans and Democrats both do it, and, de...

Members of New York’s congressional delegation on Thursday condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Rep. Tom Reed saying the attack “cannot be tol...

WASHINGTON — With Russia poised for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration Wednesday stiffened economic sanctions targeting Moscow...

The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) is 809 words in 10 long and confusing sentences describing how Congress is meant to certify the election of a U....

SMETHPORT, Pa. — In a campaign swing through Northern Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said one thing struck him the most. “I can’t get over how ...

Israel became the United Nations’ 59th member on May 11, 1949. In the seven decades since, the General Assembly, now numbering 193 countries, has pass...

Spoken word performer Gil Scott-Heron famously said: “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.” This truism came to mind recently as ...

While President Joe Biden, beleaguered by the unrelenting pandemic, spiraling inflation and myriad other domestic and foreign policy problems is seein...

After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...

Well, it looks like we’re headed for autocracy, then. In his wisdom, Joe Biden decided to declare in his Georgia voting speech that there’s a crisis i...

ALBANY — New York’s Democrat-controlled Legislature will make key decisions in 2022 on everything from the roll-out of recreational marijuana sales to...

Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been wat...

With the approach of the 2022 Legislative Session, one of the first issues bound to stir debate will be the Jan. 15 expiration of our state’s most rec...