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Verizon is cutting more than 13,000 jobs

NEW YORK — Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees in mass job reductions that arrive as the telecommunications giant says it must “reorient” its entire company. The job cuts began on Thursday, per to a staff memo from Verizon CEO Dan Schulman. In the letter, which was seen ...

Saranac Lake woman dies in Cascade Pass crash

KEENE — One Saranac Lake woman is dead and another is in critical condition following a three-vehicle crash in the Cascade Pass section of state Route 73 in the town of Keene on Monday afternoon. Tracy L. Mauler, 57, of Saranac Lake was unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene by the ...

House returns for vote to end shutdown after nearly 2 months away

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers made a long-awaited return to the nation’s capital on Wednesday after nearly eight weeks away to potentially put an end to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the ...

Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end shutdown

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day. Senate Democratic ...

Trump administration seeks to block full SNAP payments for November

BOSTON — President Donald Trump ’s administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP food benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to ...