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New York’s 911 communication services are in a state of emergency themselves as Albany siphons off hundreds of millions of dollars in much-needed funds to state coffers, an FCC commissioner says. Under a federal statute, states are allowed to collect taxes on cellphones but must use all the...

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said in an interview with the New York Times that the Constitution considers her to be President Donald Trump's equal. Pelosi is set to regain the speaker's gavel after spending eight years as House minority leader. Pelosi was the first female...

Gov. Cuomo Wednesday fired back a warning shot at state Democratic lawmakers who have threatened more aggressive oversight of his administration. During an interview on upstate public radio’s “The Capitol Connection,” Cuomo noted his administration can investigate local project money lawmakers...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent dramatically more time in Albany in 2018 than he has in past years, although he rarely ventured beyond the confines of the Executive Mansion or his Capitol office. And while the governor was something of a shadowy figure when in the state’s capital, his presence on the...

A nonprofit run by state lawmakers to raise scholarship money for needy minority students spends most of the cash on its lavish annual soiree — including $6,000 on limos — and gave out no grants the last two years, The Post has learned. The New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican...

Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday he plans to issue a decree allowing all Brazilians without criminal records to own firearms, welcome news to many core supporters who want him to loosen Brazil’s strict gun laws. Throughout his campaign, Bolsonaro had pledged to...

Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban

New York's congressional delegation is likely to shrink in four years. The state is poised to go from 27 members in the House of Representatives to 25, based on an analysis by Election Data Services of the U.S. Census Bureau's updated population estimates for July 2018. The delegation has...

A BRITISH army sniper once killed six terrorists with a single bullet from one of the Army’s most powerful guns. The unidentified marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit the target from 930 yards (850 metres) away while in Kakaran in southern Afghanistan. All six terrorists...

Since the start of the decade, a million people have moved out of New York. For Andrew Cuomo, that’s not a problem, that’s a victory. It has solidified his party’s hold on power, and it has reshaped the state and its culture in a fashion more congenial to his interests and agenda. LONSBERRY...

Winner of CNN’s ‘Journalist of the Year’ Award Admits He Fabricated Stories Claas Relotius, CNN 'Journalist of the Year,' Admits He Fabricated Stories

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday blocked New York state from enforcing a recently enacted law that aimed to collect $600 million from drug manufacturers and distributors to defray the costs of combating the opioid addiction epidemic. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that...

The state’s watchdog agency has been ordered to hold a vote within 30 days on whether it will open a probe into claims that Gov. Cuomo and his former top aide Joe Percoco violated state law by using government resources for campaign purposes. Supreme Court Judge Patrick McGrath issued the...

NY times article. Consider the source. More people died from firearm injuries in the United States last year than in any other year since at least 1968, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 39,773 gun deaths in 2017, up by more than 1,000 from...

Three Upstate New York students face felony charges of making a terroristic threat for posting online two brief videos where they act out a school shooting in someone’s house. Civil rights experts on Monday raised First Amendment issues and called the arrests police overreach since the videos...

The D.C. Council on Tuesday could pass new laws restricting the ability of gun owners to modify weapons and require police to seize guns while enforcing protective orders in domestic disputes. The latter provision - known as a "red flag law" - is gaining popularity, with variants implemented in...

Dozens of steel bolts that are used to help hold together the new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge broke apart during construction, and there are allegations some leading workers tried to cover up the potential problem, the News 4 I-Team has learned. The New York state attorney general has been...

Two teenage boys were shot Wednesday afternoon while they were walking on Syracuse's North Side. The teens -- ages 16 and 17 -- were walking together in the 1400 block of North Salina Street just after 12:30 p.m. when they were shot, said Sgt. Richard Helterline, a Syracuse Police Department...

A split U.S. appeals court has upheld a New Jersey law that limits the amount of ammunition a single gun magazine can hold. A law passed this year limits most gun owners there to magazines that hold 10 rounds of ammunition instead of the 15-round limit in place since 1990. Federal court...

Shortsville, N.Y. - Ontario County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting where they believe a woman accidentally injured her boyfriend. But, deputies also said the woman's brother used the same shotgun to repeatedly strike the victim in the head. Ontario Co. brother and sister...

The slumbering Democratic midterm electorate awakened this year, in New York and around the nation, and won significant victories. Across the country, the sum of the votes of the Democrats for every House of Representatives race in the nation is 60.1 million and counting. In 2014 only 35.6...

A Texas appeals court upheld the conviction of green card holder Rosa Maria Ortega for voter fraud on Wednesday, cementing a sentence of eight years in jail and a likely deportation. Ortega, a mother of four, reportedly thought she was able to vote because she was a permanent resident. She...

Disgraced ex-state Sen. Dean Skelos is no longer seeking bail pending his appeal, which means he will go straight to jail on his scheduled surrender date of Jan. 8, his lawyers said on Monday. Skelos, 70, was supposed to file papers by Nov. 9 requesting to remain out of prison while he appeals...

New York state lawmakers hoping they can have a say on the Amazon project may be out of luck. A little-known state board made up of representatives of the governor and state legislative leaders that typically signs off on capital projects would not need to approve a $505 million building grant...

New York state is kicking in more than $1.5 billion in taxpayer-funded incentives for getting half of Amazon's second headquarters located in a section of Queens. The Seattle-based company made its long-awaited announcement Tuesday, saying Long Island City and Alexandria, Virginia, will each...

Two political action committees created by the state teachers union have been accused of violating election law while helping Senate Democrats during the 2016 election campaigns, the Daily News has learned. State Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman filed a civil...

The state Legislature will consider a controversial bill next year that would allow illegal immigrants to apply for a driver’s license — and Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sign it if it passes, the governor’s office said. Alphonso David, Cuomo’s legal counsel, disclosed the plan during a panel...

In a eulogy on Sunday for longtime aide and counselor Drew Zambelli, Gov. Andrew Cuomo credited him with first bringing up the idea of naming the new Tappan Zee Bridge after his late father, Mario Cuomo. The younger Cuomo said Zambelli called him about the bridge naming “before I had had any...

Likely voters prefer Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Republican challenger Marc Molinaro by a 49-36 margin, according to a poll released by the Siena College Research Institute on Sunday. Cuomo's 13-point lead in the five-way race is a significant decrease from past polls. In a survey released at the...

With the critical midterm elections taking place on Tuesday, it appears Democrats are starting to panic. In recent weeks, Democrats and many in the mainstream media have largely blamed President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for incivility across the country. Yet, several prominent Democrats have...

In a move just days before Election Day that boosts a powerful union ally, Gov. Cuomo has quietly increased Medicaid rates to hospitals and nursing homes, according to a report Friday. The state Health Department notified the public of a 2 percent hike for hospitals and 1.5 percent nursing...

With just a few days left until midterm elections, Jane Fonda is making a final push to get out the vote. “It has never been more important. Our democracy is fragile and it’s under attack. Civility is under attack,” the Oscar winner told Variety on Thursday at the Women’s Media Center Awards in...

Democrats can’t count on millennials to be the deciding factor in the midterms. Only a third of 18-to-34-year-old voters plan on heading to the polls next Tuesday, according to an NBC News/GenForward survey released this week. Most millennials not planning on voting in midterms - NY Daily News

The bad news just keeps piling up for Republicans running in deep-blue New York state. New figures released Thursday show that Democrats added 158,000 new voters over the last half-year, while the GOP managed to eke out a gain of just 1,435. All told, there are now nearly 5.8 million...

A pair of teenagers have been charged with murder in juvenile court in connection with the shooting death of a retired St. Louis police sergeant. Sgt. Ralph E. Harper, 67, was killed Monday in a botched robbery attempt that ended in a hail of gunfire. A 16-year-old believed to be the gunman...

Mass shootings happen in an instant and grab headlines. A business and investment shift away from the firearms industry is happening more subtly. FedEx, the U.S. shipping group, is ending a program that offers discounts for business members of the National Rifle Association, the company...

The liberal media monitoring group Media Matters for America, a longtime critic of Fox News, is mounting an advertiser pressure campaign against the conservative news network. Media Matters is not calling for an ad boycott, per se. But it is calling out some of Fox's biggest advertisers by name...

A suspicious mom who followed her instincts helped prevent a mass school shooting. On Wednesday, Koeberle Bull of Lumberton, N.J., woke up to a racist message on Facebook from a man in Kentucky. “It was really vulgar — he called my kids the N-word and hoped terrible things for them,” Bull tells...

Sadie Schumacher, 14, a member of the Midlakes High School team, takes aim.David Figura l NYup.com In 2016, Rick Moore, a North Country school superintendent fresh from a superintendent's conference, approached his school board about a new kind of co-ed sports activity for the students -- - an...

The Republican Party raised the white flag before the battle ever began in a half dozen congressional races in New York City and Westchester — where the GOP hasn’t bothered to field any challengers. Among the Democrats getting a free pass is Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks, repeatedly voted “one of...

A Bronx bodega owner gunned down a man as he attempted to rob his store on Sunday night, cops said. The crook, identified as 32-year-old Daniel Meeks, had gotten into an altercation with the owner, 43, after trying to hop over his counter at the J Market on Morrison Avenue in Soundview...

The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken. The Public Interest Legal Foundation...

Halmar International did not have a state construction contract since 1988. But that soon changed. The Nanuet, Rockland County-based construction firm started to donate to Andrew Cuomo's election campaigns. The $100 Million Man: How Cuomo’s campaign war chest became one of the nation’s largest

With less than three weeks until Election Day, Gov. Cuomo continues to hold a commanding lead over GOP challenger Marc Molinaro, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday morning shows. In a head-to-head matchup, Cuomo, a Democrat seeking a third term, leads Molinaro, the Duchess County...

It may be Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature achievement: Groundbreaking gun control legislation, known as the SAFE Act, passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. "We passed the best gun control law in the United States of America," the Democrat said, touting the law at a campaign event this...

Gov. Cuomo sure has a lot to say when it comes to President Trump or Mayor de Blasio — but when it comes to debating his GOP opponent for governor, he’s suddenly tongue-tied. With three weeks to go until the general election, Cuomo has so far refused to go one-on-one with Republican challenger...

Chele Farley is no sacrificial lamb. “I’m certainly not doing this as any kind of token effort,” the Republican said of her long-shot campaign to unseat two-term Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this November. “I took a year out of my life, I’ve put my own money in this — I would not do that...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s very public humiliation of the New York Working Families Party last week was a spectacular example of revenge served cold but sweet. Cuomo had been fretting about the party since it endorsed gadfly actress Cynthia Nixon for governor last May, but with Nixon’s demise in...

Disgraced former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is struggling with depression and a drinking problem after a rift with his son and separation from his grandsons, new court documents claim. The Long Island Republican and his son, Adam, were convicted on corruption charges at a retrial...

Blasting GOP challenger Marc Molinaro as a “radical conservative,” Gov. Cuomo on Monday released a new ad taking aim at his record on guns. The ad follows a Daily News story on Tuesday in which a leading anti-gun violence group ripped Molinaro’s record of voting 32 times during his five years...