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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...
President Donald J. Trump on the campaign trail in Las Vegas in October. Long before Donald Trump used his presidential power to make himself...
Waves roll in to East Beach, in Galveston, Texas, from the body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico. An important principle in the First...
Roman Karpishka of Latham holds a Ukrainian flag during rally at Cohoes City Hall in March 2022 — just weeks after the Russian invasion began. In a...
Sabeeh Alalkawi’s Honda Civic slides down Hoosick Street after being struck by a Troy police SUV driven by Officer Justin Byrnes on Feb. 22, 2023....
Saratoga Springs’ efforts to respond to the state’s call to shore up the community’s trust in its police officers is withering on the vine. ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams in January 2024, following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address at the Capitol in Albany. New York Mayor...
The state Board of Regents at a 2023 meeting in Huxley Theatre at the State Museum in Albany. Its members were recently obliged to defend a large...
(Getty Images) “The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American...
Graduating cadets stand in formation at the United States Military Academy at West Pointin 2013. Then-Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel delivered the...
A voter in Wilton casts his ballot in the 21st Congressional District primary on June 26, 2018. Partisanship is destructive when it insists that any...
The College of Saint Rose campus in Albany on the last day of classes, June 21, 2024. County Executive Daniel McCoy speaks last month in Albany. ...
Dion A. Johnson at his graduation from Albany Police Academy at the Palace Theatre in 2019. He moved to the Saugerties force the following year....
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in...
Credit: Getty Images. As the U.S. Supreme Court grew increasingly conservative with the appointments of justices under President Donald J. Trump in...
Elon Musk arrives for last month's second inauguration of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. If in late January 2021, newly installed...
Cars wait in line to enter the United States at a border crossing at Blackpool, Quebec, Canada, on February 2, 2025. Upstate New York dodged a bullet,...
Credit: Getty Images. Kids have a lot to learn while they're at school. Algebra, American history and subject-verb agreement, yes, but also...
The Albany County Correctional Facility. (Will Waldron/Times Union) Michael Snyder Sr. was arraigned in April 2019 on two felonies, third-degree rape...
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena in Washington on January...
Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa attends a meeting of the Board of Regents on June 10, 2024, at the State Education Building in Albany. We’re...
A solar installment along the Mohawk River in Schenectady County. This editorial board continues to support New York's Climate Leadership and...
Credit: Getty Images. A measure with strong bipartisan statewide support is kept off the table year after year by special interests. No, it’s not...
Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI director, arrives to speak during an inauguration event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025, in...
Barbed wire surrounds Marcy Correctional Facility state prison on Route 88 in Marcy, outside Utica. Advocacy groups and journalists — from the...
Credit: Getty Images. Hours after he swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," President Donald J....
Credit: Getty Images. If you searched online this past week for articles about President Donald J. Trump’s decision to sever ties with the World...
Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) The reprieves...
A boat heads down the Hudson River on July 10, 2024. The city of Albany and many other upstate municipalities pay to have toxins dumped in upstate...
New York’s guardianship program getting a look from the state Attorney General is great, but it also needs the insight of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the...
Berne Town Supervisor Dennis Palow and former town board member and Clerk Anita Clayton at town hall in Berne in October. Palow pitched Clayton to be...
The Albany skyline and Half Moon weathervane atop the former Delaware & Hudson Building, now SUNY Plaza, is seen from above Frontage Road on April 9,...
Playground equipment is ready for children at Faith’s House, a daycare center serving workers at Saratoga Race Course that opened in 2021. Q:...
The people of the state of New York have long entrusted the integrity of their elections to a two-party system of oversight. The Schoharie Country...
Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that breakfast and lunch should be made available at no cost to all students in New York,...
A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills on Jan. 8 as wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds moved...
Credit: Getty Images. New year, new reason to repeat this mantra of government transparency: If you take taxpayers' money, you're accountable to the...
Flowers are left as a memorial Jan. 2, 2025, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, the day after an attack in the French Quarter. At least 14...
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland addresses members of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on November 18, 2024, in...
State Attorney General Letitia James has removed her office from all matters connected to the death of Robert Brooks after he was beaten by...
Entrance to Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, Oneida County, is seen Dec. 19, 2024. Please don't dismiss the corrections officers who pummeled and...