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WASHINGTON — A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bil...

It’s not 2007 again. But apparently no one has told George W. Bush. To coincide with the release of a book of his paintings of immigrants, “Out of Man...

Sometime this spring, in an attempt to do something — anything — on gun control, the U.S. Senate will revive a bill that would require people who buy ...

In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the East Room of the White House. One topic of conversation: Franklin Dela...

On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting th...

Voting mostly along party lines, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be the nation’s assistan...

ALBANY (TNS) — This November voters will decide whether the state constitution should be amended to include a right to clean air and water, as well as...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants the federal government to probe problems in the nursing home industry and start prosecuting owners of nursing homes...

NEW YORK — It's all crashing down around Gov.Andrew Cuomo. Third terms can be like that sometimes. But Cuomo shouldn't kid himself. This is all self-i...

As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to return to the business of governing Monday, one of his sexual harassment accusers met via Zoom for more than fo...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Senate and Assembly were scheduled to vote today on their versions of New York’s 2021-22 budget — and stark differences remai...

ALBANY — As allegations of sexual harassment mount, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confronted a stunning series of defections Friday that left the high-pr...

So it turns out that the whole time Sleepy Joe Biden was hiding in the basement, he was working on a plan to render congressional Republicans irreleva...

WASHINGTON — Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in ...

ALBANY (TNS) — A handful of Gov. Cuomo’s fellow Democrats have called on him to step down amid mounting sexual harassment allegations. State Senate Ma...

WASHINGTON — Kirsten Gillibrand was the first Democratic senator to call for her colleague Al Franken’s resignation in 2017 as he faced allegations of...

Gov. Cuomo has been politically weakened, whether you like him or hate him, but the business of government must continue. While New York waits for sex...

WASHINGTON — Republicans opposing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that passed the House have pointed to two transportation projects as example...