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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a White House dinner on July 7, 2025. News that a ceasefire in the war in...
Lexis Figuereo, the leader of Saratoga Black Lives Matter, during a news conference at City Hall in October 2024. There are two ways of looking at...
When a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul was accused of sexually harassing a coworker, that aide was quickly put on leave as an outside investigation was...
Credit: Getty Images. In New York, a lawyer who tried to help President Donald J. Trump overturn the 2020 election has been formally disbarred. In...
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski during an April 2024 hearing. The Alaska Republican voted in favor of a spending bill that includes major elements of...
Credit: Getty Images. It was just about a year ago that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave presidents such broad immunity from criminal...
Credit: Getty Images. America needs its Fourth of July celebration more than ever. It's an opportunity to remember what we stand for, and what we...
Credit: Getty Images. New York needs more electricity, and it needs a far greater portion of that power to come from sources that contribute as little...
State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani during an primary night gathering in Queens; the Democrat won his party's nomination for mayor of New York City....
After leading Troy police on a high-speed chase on Jan. 25, 2025, a driver hit a house on Division Street in Waterford. Police officers make...
Credit: Getty Images. The more we learn about the One Big Beautiful Bill, the uglier it gets. We won’t begin to attempt to dissect all that’s...
Credit: Getty Images. Only one of the two possible outcomes of the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities can be true: Either they...
A correction officer stomps on the genital area of Robert L. Brooks as other officers hold him down on an infirmary bed at Marcy Correctional Facility...
A man sleeps on a Congress Street bench in Saratoga Springs. Saratoga Springs Commissioner of Public Safety Tim Coll wasn't necessarily wrong when...
Soil contaminated with PCBs is dredged from the Hudson River in Fort Edward, Washington County, on August 11, 2009. If any place has reason to be wary...
Credit: Getty Images. The travel advisories are chilling: political unrest. Destabilized government institutions. Violent crime. Profiling and random...
People look over damage to buildings in Tehran's Nobonyad Square on June 13 following Israeli airstrikes on Iran. Editor's note: The editorial...
Times Union photo illustration by Carin Lane. More than a decade ago, this editorial board wrote of how a state program to clean up and redevelop...
Barbara Faraone stands on her front porch, looking across Saratoga Lake and State Route 9P on June 12, 2025. To understand why so many New Yorkers...
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in September, when he testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the U.S. Capitol. Cuomo told...
Albany Medical Center Hospital on Nov. 26, 2024. Albany Medical Center's bill has come due at last: The hospital will pay the state $375,000 to settle...
The statue honoring Henry Johnson near the Madison Avenue entrance to Washington Park. In March, the Pentagon took down a web page noting the renaming...
Dorcey Applyrs, Albany city auditor, at a news conference in 2024. Albany voters have an enviable array of choices in the upcoming Democratic mayoral...
A tractor moves garbage at the Colonie landfill. The world is awash in garbage, and much of that garbage is plastic. The evidence is everywhere....
Police officers and National Guard troops face off with protesters outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, California, on June 8,...
The Glenmont Job Corps Center will close down after the U.S. Department of Labor ordered a "phased pause" in funding of nearly 100 facilities across...
Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity distribution point in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on June 5, 2025. It has been said that Hamas and its...
Credit: Getty Images. For years, state and federal governments have made enormous taxpayer-funded investments in broadband. So after all this time...
Credit: Getty Images. No surprise here: President Donald J. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t beautiful in the slightest — and the changes...
A mural outside of Massapequa High School in Nassau County features an image of the school's mascot, the "Chiefs." Presidents of the United...
Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County in Virginia, in 2020. Convicted in 2024 of a range of corruption felonies, he was pardoned last...
A view of the Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. What is it about the historic Ten Broeck Mansion’s plan to create its...
An Afghan interpreter working with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th displays a patch showing the Afghan and U.S. flags at Combat...
A sample printed ballot from an ExpressVote machine is displayed during a 2019 demonstration in Texas. Why has the New York state Board of Elections...
Use of the Rensselaer Volunteer Ambulance building is at issue in the city of Rensselaer. Bad politics? That's what Rensselaer's Republican mayor...
The Norlite plant in Cohoes. In 1977, the Norlite shale aggregate company in Cohoes began fueling its kilns by incinerating hazardous waste instead...
(Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) Is a firearm equipped with a “forced-reset trigger” a machine...
This Nov. 19, 1863, photo shows President Abraham Lincoln, center with no hat, surrounded by the crowd at the dedication of a portion ofthe...
An abortion rights activist flies an upside down US flag, the international sign of distress, outside of the US Supreme Court during a protest in...
Some 'forever chemicals' are now going to be in drinking water longer than previously promised. The EPA’s reversal on drinking water standards for...
Emergency Medial Technicians with the Albany County Sheriff's Department administer a booster COVID-19 vaccine shot in 2021. In his first term as...
Credit: Getty Images. Lt. Brian Strock with the Watervliet Police Department holds a police report on the accidental death of a toddler that the...
The stalled housing project at 1211 Western Ave. in Albany is seen Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. The Central Warehouse north of downtown Albany has long...
A 1908 postcard showing the state Capitol's Eastern Approach less than a decade after construction of the building was completed. The Eastern Approach...
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News via Cagle Cartoons. For most of the 248 years since the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a nation that...
Credit: Getty Images. For all its flaws, the United States’ system of health care has improved dramatically in at least one respect in the past 15...
Jeanine Pirro speaks during an anti-SAFE Act rally in Albany's West Capitol Park in 2013. The Fox News personality was nominated by President Donald...
President Donald Trump addresses Gov. Janet Mills of Maine on Feb. 21, 2025, after she said "See you in court" over the issue of trans women in...
Credit: Getty Images. We are still mostly, thank goodness, a society that recoils at senseless violence. When it occurs, we still feel moved to...
Times Union photo illustration by Ty Stewart. New York Democrats are attempting to subvert the purpose and spirit of New York's campaign finance law....