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Making changes to the New York State Constitution should never be done lightly. It’s an important, foundational document that offers many critical pro...

SCHENECTADY (TNS) — The proposed Equal Rights Amendment that would change the state constitution has become a lightning rod for political controversy ...

ALBANY (TNS) — In November, New Yorkers will vote on a constitutional amendment that would codify reproductive rights and protection from identity-bas...

For a man who prattles on about Donald Trump and “democracy,” Joe Biden — remember him? — sure has a habit of ignoring and subverting constitutional c...

It’s a 2024 election battleground where millions of dollars are being spent and big names in American politics are popping up. But it’s not in Pennsyl...

ALBANY (TNS) — A nine-member commission has the next year to study how reparations could be offered to descendants of enslaved people inNew York. The ...

ALBANY — A proposed amendment to New York’s Constitution that’s intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any m...

ROCHESTER — Two women were killed and five other people were injured when gunfire erupted during a Sunday afternoon barbecue at a park in Rochester, a...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-23rd District, wants the United States to revoke the student visas of anyone involved in activity that supports foreign t...

ALBANY (TNS) — The Hochul administration will close two upstate New York maximum security prisons citing a continuing overall drop in the incarcerated...

Violence, or at least the threat of it, has been a part of American political life from the beginning of the nation. Our third vice president, after a...

ALLEGANY — A New York City attorney is appealing rulings allowing the state to arbitrarily invoke quarantine rules as well as place an amendment on th...

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this N...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Republicans have adopted a platform , in advance of the party convention next week in Milwaukee, that might manage to be a s...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Cannabis prohibition remains central to America’s failed war on drugs — upwards of half a million people were arrested for a cannabis ...

OLEAN — A city native has written a historical book exploring a crucial moment in American history that marked the beginning of the end of slavery. “T...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is introducing legislation to make college more affordable for working families by increasing federal grants — eventually...

MINEOLA (AP) — A county legislature outside New York City has voted to bar transgender female athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s teams at cou...