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OCKPORT – The seizure of an assault rifle and ammunition from the hatchback of former State Senate candidate Gia M. Arnold was lawful, a judge ruled Monday. Arnold, 27, lost a Republican Senate primary in Niagara and Orleans counties in 2014 while calling for the repeal of New York's SAFE Act...

WASHINGTON In Washington state, a local Democratic leader wants people registered to vote at birth. In Nevada and New Mexico, a liberal group is pressuring the legislatures to let people register when they get driver’s licenses. In Ohio, progressive activists have thrown their support behind...

From the time of the Dutch purchase of Manhattan, Native Americans have gotten one raw deal after another. So imagine the delight of the Seneca Nation of Indians’ tribal leaders when they realized that their gaming compact with New York state — signed in 2002 and automatically renewed last...

Seven-hundred fifty-seven jobs were added last year under the Start-Up NY program, more than double the number of jobs created in 2015, according to a report released Monday by Empire State Development, which administers the program. In total, 1,135 jobs have been created since the program’s...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether the state should become the first in the country to allow police to use drones outfitted with deadly weapons, a proposal immediately met with concern by civil rights and liberties advocates. The bill would ban the use of...

Gov. Cuomo to restore 1932 state car used by Franklin Roosevelt ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is resurrecting a 1932 state car used by Franklin Roosevelt when he was New York governor. The 12-cylinder, standard shift Packard Phaeton with leather interior has been for years sitting as an exhibit on the...

Majority of New Yorkers say he'd be a poor President but they but they say he's a good Governor. Unbelievable! Despite the swirling speculation about Gov. Andrew Cuomo possibly mounting a 2020 challenge to President Donald Trump, a new Quinnipiac University poll released today found that more...

A Massachusetts law enforcement official testifying before Congress on Tuesday called for leaders of sanctuary cities to be arrested. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told the House Subcommittee on Illegal Immigration that sanctuary cities “have become magnets for illegal aliens, some of...

No governor of a state with a shrinking population has ever been elected president. That's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo might want to consider as he plans his run for president. Why would the country want to be more like New York when so many New Yorkers are fleeing to other parts of the...

It’s an occurrence as uncommon in these parts as a bearhug from the governor or an indictment-free year. On Monday, New York State legislators embarked a rare and rigorous five-day workweek here, the first time in nearly six years that they have been scheduled to be in the Capitol from Monday...

A state Senate bill to fix the selection process for the Board of Regents isn’t likely to become law — or even get much attention — any time soon. Unless, that is, Gov. Cuomo is finally ready stand up for New York state’s students. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R-C-I, Long...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sunk a lot of taxpayer money – $25 billion by his estimate – into recharging upstate’s moribund economy. The governor has increased spending on subsidy programs to record levels, launched bold policy initiatives and crisscrossed upstate to announced projects he has...

Republican state Senator from western New York was indicted Wednesday for violating state election law, jeopardizing the GOP’s hold on the Senate. Sen. Robert Ortt’s office confirmed that an Albany grand jury had indicted the Niagara County Republican on a felony charge of offering a false...

The US military are in the process of testing a new electromagnetic gun that can fire ammo at 4,500mph. The Navy have developed a weapon that will use a ship's self-generated power to fire at long-range targets. This means that the electromagnetic railgun launcher uses electricity instead of...

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is off on a new career: targeting President Trump. With his hire of a top veteran from ex-US Attorney Preet Bharara’s office, Schneiderman is plainly looking to go far beyond actions like challenging Trump’s travel ban. Why else hire Howard Master, the...

As a conservative, I’m thrilled by the arrival of unified Republican government. But the politician I’m most grateful to in Washington today is not President Trump, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). It’s Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). That’s...

New York state leads in many things: fashion, finance, food, media, museums — all of which helps attract people and businesses and creates the state’s vibrant and diverse economy. And yet, if Gov. Cuomo gets his way, New York will lead in another way: Enacting a foolish Internet-marketplace tax...

Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch — President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court — will kick off Monday, prompting one high-profile pol to implore Democrats to take the high road during what's sure to be a contentious process. Democrats should avoid mimicking...

t’s right out of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”: The ghost of Chuck Schumer past issuing a dire warning to today’s Senate minority leader. Back in 2013, recall, a GOP effort to defund ObamaCare in a federal spending bill led to a 16-day shutdown of the federal government. Democrats were...

HER mum Hillary Clinton didn’t make it to the White House, and hubby Marc Mezvinsky has just shuttered his hedge fund. What’s a girl to do? Expedia answered that question for Chelsea Clinton Friday by appointing her to its board. The online travel giant had to increase the number of its...

In New York, state Senate Republicans have maintained a majority for all but a few of the past 50 years, despite registered Democrats outnumbering Republicans 2-1. One advantage has been the frequent cross-endorsement of Republicans by the Independence Party — a minor political party whose...

The Rev. Peter Young is a regional hero, a street priest who has fought the plague of addiction and impacted, no exaggeration, thousands of lives. Robert A. Kent, meanwhile, is another cog in the Cuomo bully machine, a general counsel paid $156,000 last year and a longtime state bureaucrat now...

Gov. Cuomo says Democrats lost the presidential race last November because they ignored middle-class voters. His answer? Don’t ignore them — lie to them. No joke. The state Democratic Party, which he controls, is shelling out bundles of cash on ads that falsely claim his budget lowers taxes for...

A state lawmaker from Manhattan wants to make it costly for New Yorkers not to vote. Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Democrat, introduced legislation this week that would establish “compulsory voting” in the state and punish those who don’t vote with a $10 fine. “Mandatory voting would...

The fake news establishment media at CNN is at it again. Now they are attacking Fox News host Sean Hannity, smearing his reputation with a phony story about him allegedly pointing a gun at liberal Fox News contributor Juan Williams. Dylan Byers, one of the media writers at CNN who works for...

A new proposed law championed by an Upstate New York state senator would radically change deer hunting regulations for bucks in many parts of the state. The bill, S4739A, was introduced by Republican Sen. Thomas O'Mara, whose 5th Senate district covers five counties across the Southern Tier and...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been going to courthouses and arresting people in America illegally, sparking outrage from prosecutors and attorneys. They worry such tactic will discourage undocumented immigrants from appearing in court to testify as witnesses for...

We asked this a few weeks ago, but seriously, is something wrong with Nancy Pelosi? During a press conference today in which she set out to attack President Trump’s budget outline, she slammed the “stupid economy” as she criticized proposed cuts to federal education programs. “More than $9...

I agree 150%.

tate Department staffers have been instructed to seek cuts in excess of 50 percent in U.S. funding for U.N. programs, signaling an unprecedented retreat by President Donald Trump’s administration from international operations that keep the peace, provide vaccines for children, monitor rogue...

Brown was shot and killed in August 2014 by Ferguson, Mo. officer Darren Wilson, sparking widespread protests and a national debate about police violence. During the debate over the shooting, Ferguson police released a video that appeared to show Brown committing a "strong-arm robbery" of...

Senate Democrats warned Republicans Monday that attempts to take funding away from Planned Parenthood or pay for President Donald Trump’s border wall in a stopgap spending bill that must pass by late April would result in a government shutdown. The threat from Senate Minority Leader Chuck...

Hundreds of immigrants and advocacy groups are scheduled to descend on the state Capitol Tuesday to press for new protections in the era of President Trump. Weather permitting, more than 600 people will travel to Albany for a march and rally in support of what they are calling the Immigrant...

ALBANY — With state budget talks set to heat up, Gov. Cuomo is taking his push for a “middle-class recovery act” directly to the public. The state Democratic Party that Cuomo controls is set to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a statewide TV, radio and digital ad campaign touting the...

We need term limits AND age limits on these politicians.

As uncertainty over the future of the federal healthcare system persists, state Senate Democrats are proposing the creation of a single-payer public health system as part of a package of bills to help the state prep for potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The legislation, touted by the...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted a $1.4 billion budget package for central Brooklyn revitalization on Thursday, essentially applying the geographic focus used for the Buffalo Billion to an area of New York City state officials say is underserved and rife with poverty and crime. The plan was buried deep...

Ilion, N.Y. -- Remington Arms Co. reportedly is laying off about 120 workers at its gun manufacturing plant in Herkimer County. WIXB950 said Wednesday that employees at the Ilion factory, Herkimer County's largest employer, reported that approximately 120 workers "are being shown the door."...