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NEW YORK (TNS) — Despite a robust economy, the U.S. budget deficit is poised to double over the next year — to an eye-watering $2 trillion. As bad as ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Luke Green has one goal in his new role as resource coordinator in St. Bonaventure University’s Office of Student Affairs: helping s...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The radical disconnect between Washington’s ruling elites and working-class folks is perhaps best illustrated by President Joe Bide...

Rep. Nick Lagworthy, who attended last week’s Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, said Monday he saw no clear winner in the first GOP candida...

OLEAN — A local business was recognized by the state Monday for its efforts to overcome obstacles — including a global pandemic. The New York Small Bu...

It’s curious: Even as America’s economic trends are improving, Americans’ economic anxieties are worsening — including those of many who have no appar...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s an economic calamity approaching: At the end of September, pandemic-era federal funding for child care will expire, potential...

ALBANY (TNS) — A New York appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit filed last year by a former commissioner for the state’s now-dismantled ethics panel...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

LITTLE VALLEY — Winners in competition in the Cattaraugus County Fair Domestic Building were announced by fair officials. They include: Best Infant Ac...

Local government sales tax collections in New York state totaled $5.7 billion in the second quarter of 2023 (April-June), an increase of 3%, or nearly...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday for working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up t...

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — A Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million was sold at the Nittany Mini Mart on Route 6 in Smethport. A Mega Millions ticket worth $5 m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Too many Americans — and too many American economists in particular — have an unhealthy obsession with the 1%: how much money they ma...

Campaign talk is cheap, but if President Joe Biden meant any of his 2020 talk of uniting Americans, he’s clearly succeeding, just not in the way he in...

After months of teetering on the edge, it seems inflation is declining steadily, to the point where the specter of mega-price jumps erasing savings an...

The nine-day manhunt for Warren County (Pa.) Jail escapee Michael Burham ended Saturday evening and Burham is being held in the Erie County (Pa.) Pris...

President Biden wants to persuade Americans that the economy is better than they think — and that he deserves credit for turning it around. He’s calli...