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Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, known since March 2013 as Pope Francis, was notably distinct from his papal...
When this editorial board reviews its assessment of U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, it is difficult not to start with one simple message: We...
Credit: Getty Images. For a while, it seemed likely that Donald Trump just might succeed in bringing some of America’s most prestigious institutions...
There is little utility or even justice in comparing homicides, but it is a hard thing to avoid in the cases of Robert L. Brooks and Messiah Nantwi,...
Credit: Getty Images. More than 6,000 people living legally in the United States woke up one recent morning to discover they were dead. They were...
Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration has moved to release some state prison inmates who are within 110 days of their release...
Credit: Getty Images. A few weeks ago, this editorial board roasted members of the state Legislature who were gnashing their teeth over limits placed...
President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14. Kilmar Abrego Garcia came to the United...
Credit: Getty Images. Elevated levels of lead have been found in Albany's West Hill neighborhood. New York has long employed a cruel and ineffective...
Times Union photo illustration. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie talking to the media after Gov. Kathy Hochul presented her 2026 executive budget...
Credit: Getty Images. If you thought that filing your income taxes could lead to you being arrested or even deported, would you pay your taxes? ...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. Imagine a criminal justice system in which people merely accused of a crime were routinely imprisoned...
Eight months after the unfair and untimely dismissal of its former CEO, the Albany County Airport Authority board is still trying to convince everyone...
Mark Longo with Peanut, a squirrel that was seized in a DEC raid at Longo's home in October 2024. The state Department of Environmental Conservation...
Credit: Getty Images. The Trump administration has an arrangement with El Salvador to place deported undocumented immigrants and even American...
Credit: Getty Images. President Donald J. Trump this past week imposed sweeping tariffs built on false premises, based on false numbers and justified...
Credit: Getty Images. Last year, when Public Partnerships LLC was chosen to administer New York’s home care services program, this editorial board...
A ban on wearing masks in public was repealed during the pandemic. Gov. Kathy Hochul is still pushing to ban wearing masks in public and, with...
Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services stand in line to enter the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building in Washington, D.C., on April 1...
U.S. Supreme Court rules "ghost gun" kits can be regulated. Might last week’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding make-your-own gun kits...
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena in Washington on January...
Credit: Getty Images. If a politician promised that if elected, he’d make sure people have to jump through bureaucratic hoops to vote from now on...
Credit: Getty Images. There’s only one thing more outrageous than the fact that some of the highest officials in government committed a flagrant...
Credit: Getty Images. Medicaid. Social Security. Housing aid. Threats from the Trump administration to shrink America’s social safety net raise many...
Homes are illuminated after sunset in Tasiilaq, Greenland. Editor's note: As this editorial was going to press, the White House announced that Vice...
Striking correction officers and their supporters stage a protest along Route 9W near Greene Correctional Facility state prison in Coxsackie on Feb....
Credit: Getty Images. This might be news to Beroro Efekoro, but even though he’s an Albany County legislator, he’s still just a regular guy....
Protestors participate in a "study-in" in front of the U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., on March 21, 2025. With a stroke of...
Times Union photo illustration by Ty Stewart. Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay, center, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, right, during...
Credit: Getty Images. People with the power to take away other people’s liberty should be open and accountable for the decisions they make. That’s...
Warren Street in Hudson. In Hudson, a small but influential group of residents is pushing a proposal that would strip away the mayor's power, install...
Credit: Getty Images. President Donald J. Trump’s defiance of two court orders barring him from deporting people without due process has thrust the...
Credit: Getty Images. Before discussing the latest twist in the path to accountability for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, let’s recall some...
Signs reminding people about social distancing and wearing face masks are seen at a mall in Monterey Park, Calif., on June 14, 2021. This week marks a...
Credit: Getty Images. Normally, we would not endorse a shutdown of the U.S. government. But nothing about this moment in American history is normal....
Credit: Getty Images. Methadone is the gold standard for the treatment of opioid addiction because of its ability to reduce cravings and block the...
Mahmoud Khalil Credit: Getty Images. Last month, Vice President JD Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference and upbraided European leaders...
Credit: Getty Images. In less than four weeks, tens of thousands of New Yorkers could find themselves cut off from the help they depend on to for some...
A chips clean room at Albany Nanotech is seen in August 2022, after U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer made an announcement about the impact of the CHIPS &...
Albany's Central Warehouse on December 3, 2024. In today’s edition of “If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times”: When you’re...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday. The session...
Senator Patricia Fahy calls for the redevelopment of a portion of the Harriman State Office Campus on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, in Albany. Building...
President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Feb. 26, 2025. What does President Donald Trump have planned that he...
The exterior of Albany Medical Center Hospital on Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024, in Albany. At last, the state Department of Health’s August report on...
Filtered tap water flows from Bethlehem resident Jessica Dillon’s kitchen faucet on Jan. 9, 2025. Dillon had a water filtration system installed to...
Albany County District Attorney Lee Kindlon talks to the media on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Albany. Lee Kindlon, two months into his term as the...
21 states full of greenhouse gas polluters sue New York over its latest climate change-related policy. It is, to put it mildly, disappointing that 21...
The headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) The Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency...
The New York Court of Appeals on Eagle Street in Albany. New York’s most impactful response to the national reckoning that followed the 2020 murder...
Striking correction officers and their supporters stage a protest along Route 9W near Greene Correctional Facility state prison last week in...