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ALBANY (TNS) — Do you believe in life after mixing up two U.S. senators with similar first names? Cher clearly hopes so: The icon apologized to U.S. S...

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

WASHINGTON (TNS) — After the American Rescue Plan waived taxes on canceled student loan debt, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer believes there...

New York senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand touted Saturday’s passage of the massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bil l, giving Presiden...

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

ALBANY (TNS) — The number of lawmakers calling for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to resign immediately increased after a third woman came forward to allege the...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spa...

When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID relief bill, he met...

WASHINGTON — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican lead...

Many years ago, Sen. Eugene McCarthy said there is nothing more dangerous in politics than a politician without further ambition. And perhaps one thin...

Last week’s Senate elections in Georgia — yes, it was only last week — qualified as life-changing news for President-elect Joe Biden, who knew that if...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s over. President Donald Trump doesn’t think so, but it is. Absent an unprecedented event in American history, he is not going to ...

Neera Tanden, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget — which oversees federal spending and federal regulations — ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus and supporting members of the Senate detailed a bipartisan $908 billion c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican senator said Friday he saw no evidence to support President Donald Trump's baseless claim that Democrats are trying...

WASHINGTON — The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, with Republicans overpowering Democrats...

It was utterly amazing, the first hearing of the Senate on giving its consent to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Th...