WASHINGTON — Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant, in an effort to boost faltering ratings, falsely claimed that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election. The lawsuit is part of a growing body of ...
ALBANY — The impeachment investigation into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expanding to examine whether the governor unlawfully used his office to provide his family members with special access to scarce coronavirus tests a year ago, a state lawmaker said Thursday. The office of Attorney ...
ALBANY (AP) — Relatives of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others with connections to him received special access to coronavirus tests a year ago when testing was scarce, according to published reports in newspapers. Members of Cuomo’s family including his brother, CNN journalist Chris ...
ALBANY — State Sen. Dan Stec is cosponsoring four bills aimed at deterring and addressing sexual harassment in state government workplaces. The “Employees in the Workforce Protections Package” would allow state employees to bring sexual harassment complaints to an employer within ...
ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declined to say Wednesday what his office is doing to ensure a safe work environment for two female aides who have accused him of sexually harassing or groping them. Speaking to reporters from his Manhattan office, Cuomo said “there are rules” ...
ALBANY — New York lawmakers are finalizing an agreement to legalize recreational marijuana sales to adults over the age of 21, a state legislative leader said Wednesday. Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the chamber, said the bill ...
SARANAC LAKE — Trustee Zelda Newman’s last village board meeting on Monday was full of emotion, food and flowers. Newman held a short term on the board, but she said she learned a lot, and village Mayor Clyde Rabideau said she contributed to the board during a challenging ...
MALONE — The State Senate last week passed the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term, or “HALT” solitary confinement act, legislation designed to limit the use of the conditions for all incarcerated inmates to 15 days. The legislation was passed in order to implement “alternative ...
NEW YORK — To Fox News Channel’s Janice Dean, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a liar and a criminal. He blames others for his “disastrous decisions.” He needs to resign — no, that’s not enough. “He needs to go to jail!” she thundered on “Fox & Friends.” Dean ...
ALBANY — A woman who currently works in the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he looked down her shirt and made suggestive remarks to her and another aide, according to a newspaper report published Friday. Alyssa McGrath told The New York Times that Cuomo called her beautiful ...
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican from western New York, is accused of rubbing a female lobbyist’s back and unhooking her bra, without her consent, at a networking event in a Minneapolis pub in 2017. The lobbyist, Nicolette Davis, told The Washington Post that Reed appeared to be drunk ...
North Country U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik voted against an immigration bill Thursday that, if passed by the Senate, would create a path to citizenship for several million young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. She voted for an agricultural immigration bill ...
WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to unlatch a gateway to citizenship for young “Dreamers,” migrant farm workers and immigrants who’ve fled war or natural disasters, giving Democrats wins in the year’s first votes on an issue that once again faces an uphill climb to make ...
PLATTSBURGH — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., highlighted provisions of the recently signed American Rescue Plan that seek to address regional business priorities during a virtual conversation hosted by the North Country Chamber of Commerce Wednesday. Chamber President Garry ...
North Country U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik voted against an immigration bill Thursday that, if passed by the Senate, would create a path to citizenship for several million young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. She voted for an agricultural immigration bill ...
LAKE PLACID — Art Devlin is Lake Placid’s new mayor. Voters chose Devlin, a local motel owner and longtime village trustee who ran on the Republican and Teamwork party lines, as the village’s new mayor on Tuesday. He ran against former Mayor Jamie Rogers to succeed longtime Mayor ...
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik’s campaign is selling T-shirts, hats and other merchandise that calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign or be impeached. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, is selling a variety of items on the Elise for Congress website, including 2- by 3-foot posters of the governor for ...
ALBANY — New York’s Assembly has hired a Manhattan law firm to assist in its impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, legislative leaders announced Wednesday in a pick that was quickly criticized by at least two women accusing the governor of sexual harassment. The Manhattan ...
LAKE PLACID — Art Devlin is this village's new mayor. Lake Placid voters chose Devlin, a local motel owner and longtime village trustee who ran on the Republican and Teamwork party lines, as the village's new mayor on Tuesday. Newcomers Marc Galvin and Jacquelyn "Jackie" Kelly, who ran ...
State Sen. Dan Stec, R-Queensbury, has joined his Republican colleagues in asking the federal government to take over the vaccine distribution program in response to the allegations that a health aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo called county leaders to gauge their support for the embattled ...