politics

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For my entire career, it's seemed, theRepublican Partyhas run againstJimmy Carter. From my novice reporter days inTexasbeginning mi...

The left delights in pointing out the internal contradictions and tensions within the MAGA movement, of which, admittedly, there are many. No doubt th...

Just days remain before Joe Biden is officially sent into retirement. How much more damage can he do? If the past month is any indication, the answer ...

BUFFALO — Officials and volunteers Wednesday launched Appeal 2025 in support of Catholic Charities of Buffalo and the Fund for the Faith, with a goal ...

The National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, is Thursday. The U.S. Postal Service will not deli...

For Joseph Giglio, the fact that he is retired is still sinking in. After a lifetime of work and public service — with the past 19 years served as ass...

OLEAN — The Olean Senior Center, 112 N. Barry St., in the John J. Ash Community Building, announces its schedule for the week of Jan. 13. The center i...

TheIRSwields immense power over the financial lives of Americans, yet recent revelations highlight it would be wise to question an expansion of that a...

WASHINGTON(TNS) — By the standard President Joe Biden set himself, the core purpose he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his ...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy is eager to get started — working in a Republican-controlled Congress — on the GOP agenda with President-elect Donald Trump,...

One thing seems to be lost in the border crisis/illegal immigration/migrant surge debate: When government needs to find money, it will. Granted, taxpa...

On Friday, PresidentJoe Bidenannounced he was blocking the purchase ofU.S.Steel by Japanese steelmakerNippon Steelon dubious economic and national sec...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting...

Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign Affairs website to prais...

OLEAN — It is a year to “pivot to solutions” amid issues over taxes, crime and infrastructure, the city’s chief executive said Thursday. Mayor Bill Ai...

If I could have one wish granted in the New Year, it would be for be for a return of respect and bipartisanship in Albany to ensure that state governm...

ManyDemocratsremain comically befuddled over how they lost two of the past three presidential elections toDonald Trump. As one might expect from those...

In the wake of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent announcement regarding an “inflation refund” plan, Republican state senators George Borrello, Dean Murray an...