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WASHINGTON (TNS) — Two weeks before the election, Democrats are slightly favored to win control of the U.S. Senate, raising the possibility that Minor...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In 1993, then U.S. Rep. Charles E. Schumer was two years into a fight to regulate handgun purchases and facing stiff opposition fro...

The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle. The ratio of progressive outrage over the nomination of federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett t...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a fiercely anti-tax and anti-regulation lawmaker who never entirely warmed to Presi...

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has long argued for a simpler version of what he calls the “dreaded” Free Application for Federal Student Aid form. The...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans face a critical choice on replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — vote on her successor before ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans face a critical choice on replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — vote on her successor before ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Some states have been providing $300 a week in additional federal aid to unemployed residents out of work due to COVID-19. New York has...

In the cosmology of the Chinese Communist Party, the existence of Uighur Muslims is a threat not only to China’s dominant ethnic group, the Han, but a...

WELLSVILLE — Surrounded by family, friends and colleagues Friday, hospital executive Eva Benedict was honored as a New York State Senate Woman of Dist...

The coronavirus pandemic has put a big hit on tourism, which is big business in Cattaraugus County and throughout Western New York. Millions in sales ...

ALBANY (TNS ) — With roughly a week left for New York lawmakers to vote on a constitutional change that would give legislators more influence in the s...

ALBANY (AP) — A month after resigning as state Senate Republican leader, newly minted lobbyist John Flanagan is holding onto his state campaign warche...

Jeff Sessions, the former U.S. senator from Alabama who served as President Donald Trump’s first attorney general and punching bag, lost the Republica...

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...

On Thursday, U.S. Reps. Tom Reed and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise held a video press conference over ZOOM to demand an investigation into decisio...

ALBANY — Niagara County state Sen. Rob Ortt received enough backing from his GOP colleagues in the State Senate Friday to emerge as the new leader of ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Two Republicans from Western New York are among those that have raced to become state Senate minority leader, a post that is about to b...