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When voters around the globe had their say in 2024, their message was often: “You’re fired.” Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s popul...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” Milton Friedman once said. In other words, don’t blame greed — blame th...

Congress allocated at least $516 billion for federal programs with expired authorizations in fiscal year 2024, and likely far more, according to the C...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My prediction that President Joe Biden would drop out was a rare bright spot among last year’s not totally serious predictions. Und...

Gov. Kathy Hochulsigned a law to expand access to theHome Energy Assistance Program(HEAP) and help more seniors enroll in heating aid. The legislation...

About 23,000 children and teenagers experience a cardiac arrest every year in theU.S.If that cardiac arrest takes place in a school with an automated ...

Local unemployment rose in November, but with lower rates than a year ago according to state officials. The state Department of Labor this week report...

ALBANY — They warned about him. Now they'll have to work with him. A handful of prominent Democratic governors, including New York's Kathy Hochul, are...

President-elect Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign on the promise of deporting tens of millions of illegal immigrants. While Trump and his aid...

OLEAN — Those staying in Olean hotels and other short-term rentals will see their final bills go up 5% in 2025. The Common Council unanimously approve...

State Assemblyman-elect Joe Sempolinski, who will be sworn into office Jan. 7 in Albany, has been named the ranking Republican member of the Assembly'...

Federal agencies reported $161.5 billion in improper payments during fiscal year 2024, according to data released by the Office of Management and Budg...

Tri-County Arts Council, based in Olean, has been awarded a $10,000 grant while Statewide Community Regrants in Allegany & Wyoming Counties has been a...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Of all the hallowed American institutions that have experienced a loss in public esteem over the last few years, perhaps none has suf...

David Walkerran the Government Accountability Office for a decade, under both a Republican and Democratic president. Elected officials should take him...

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield la...

Progressives who argue that “the rich” should pay their “fair share” of income taxes are inadvertently arguing they should get a tax cut. The IRS rece...

ALBANY (TNS) — Two undefeated football teams from private Catholic schools battled it out for a New York state public high school championship Saturda...