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Politics

Special election to be planned for NY-21

Things move fast. Less than a week after North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik handily won reelection for another two-year term to represent the North Country in Congress, she accepted an appointment by the recently reelected President Donald Trump to serve as his ambassador to the United ...

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin to lead EPA

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency as he continues to build out his future administration with loyal supporters. Zeldin, a Republican who mounted a failed bid for governor of New York ...

Trump chooses New York Rep. Elise Stefanik as ambassador to United Nations

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations. "Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter," Trump said in a statement Monday announcing his pick. Nikki Haley, who challenged Trump for the ...

How Trump went from diminished ex-president to a victor once again

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As he bid farewell to Washington in January 2021, deeply unpopular and diminished, Donald Trump was already hinting at a comeback. “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Trump told supporters at Joint Base Andrews, where he’d arranged a 21-gun ...

Justice Department brings charges in Iranian murder plan Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican ...