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NEW YORK (TNS) — At first glance, the policy sounds absurd, especially to many Americans: In Sweden, grandparents are now eligible for government subs...

The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a ...

The New York State Senate Republican Conference announced what members called a “Rescue New York” 2023 legislative agenda to address concerns that inc...

Today begins the 118th session of — don’t laugh — the world’s longest-running and arguably best-functioning national legislature, the two houses of th...

The U.S. teeters on the brink of a complete meltdown at the border, and yet the Biden administration is still consumed with blame-shifting and evasion...

ALBANY (TNS) — For New York to meet ambitious climate goals enacted three years ago, it will have to zero in on one of the top culprits in carbon emis...

This week could mark the most consequential development on the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021, when President Joe Biden essentially opened the ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — A state commission Monday approved plans to phase out fossil fuel-burning furnaces beginning as soon as 2025 as part of New York’s ag...

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema declared herself a Marxist on Friday. Not Karl; Groucho. As in, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a memb...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The video of “Chongqing Superman” has gone viral amidst the explosion of protests across China against the government’s “zero COV...

OLEAN — To a round of applause, Portville Village Mayor Anthony Evans opened the November board meeting with a recognition of the Lady Panthers volley...

ALBANY (TNS) — The task force charged with advising the state on how to distribute its first wave of cash from opioid settlements has released its ina...

U.S. Rep. Joe Sempolinski on Tuesday expressed concerns over a proposal by Sen. Kristen Gillibrand to house migrants in Upstate communities. Thousands...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — There’s something noticeably different at Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth this year. It’s not new uniforms or facil...

Record numbers of illegal immigrants are entering the country illegally and spreading throughout the interior of United States — and it’s playing out ...

Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...

ALBANY (TNS) — Entry into this year’s New York State Fair will maintain its longstanding policy that firearms, unless for the purposes of the gun show...

FORT WORTH, Texas — I’m not alone when I confess that the COVID era wreaked havoc on my kids’ annual pediatrician visits. In the early months of the p...