WASHINGTON — As the country’s major freight railroads braced for a possible strike among their employees, the North Country’s House representatives voted against a measure that would make the strike illegal. For over two years, railroad employee unions had been negotiating a contract ...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is betting he can win his way back to the White House by reviving the outsider appeal that fueled his success in 2016. But his dinner with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies is demonstrating the risks of that ...

WASHINGTON — The day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York announced his own history-making bid Friday to become the first Black American to helm a major U.S. political party in Congress as leader of the House Democrats. The 52-year-old ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elise M. Stefanik has been reelected as the House Republican Conference chair for a second term. The secret-ballot election held among Republican lawmakers on Tuesday put Rep. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, back in the post she’s served in since 2021, when she was elevated ...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections. Pelosi announced in a spirited speech ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his third campaign for the White House just one week after a disappointing midterm showing for Republicans, forcing the party to again decide whether to embrace a candidate whose refusal to accept defeat in 2020 sparked an ...