WASHINGTON — The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker has left the House adrift as Republicans struggle to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult and potentially prolonged process of uniting around a new leader. The House convened briefly Wednesday and then ...
WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of ...
WILMINGTON — The Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News are sponsoring a meet-the-candidates forum for the contested races in this year's town of Wilmington election. The forum will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday Oct. 17 at the Wilmington firehouse on Haselton Road. The ...
Immediately after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the “Early Mail Voter Act” into law on Wednesday, expanding mail-in voting universally to all voters, North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik, along with other Republican and Conservative politicians and political organizations, sued the governor and ...
WASHINGTON — On one side of the Capitol, two senators have steered the debate over government funding mostly clear of partisan fights, creating a path for bills to pass with bipartisan momentum. Steps away, on the House side of the building, things couldn’t be more different. House ...
HAMPTON, Va. — Students were dancing in the aisles and their seats in the Hampton University auditorium long before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage for the first stop of her fall college tour. Jaden Clemons and Layth Carpenter, both 18-year-old freshmen, said they viewed ...