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From New York to New Mexico, residents in a number of states can expect a leftward push for expanded health care coverage, gun control, education funding and legalized recreational marijuana as Democrats who gained new or stronger powers in the ...

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WASHINGTON – Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has said that judges should have a “biblical view,” that he could not support nominees who are “secular” and declared that federal courts should be the “inferior branch” of government. Whitaker’s comments, made ...

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WASHINGTON – Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who is poised to take control of the House Judiciary Committee in January, said Sunday that he plans to call acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as his first witness. The hearing would focus on ...

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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital and planned to work from home on Friday, a day after being admitted with three fractured ribs, a court spokeswoman said. “Justice Ginsburg has been discharged from ...

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WASHINGTON – When federal investigators were digging into an invention-promotion company accused of fraud by customers, they sought information in 2017 from a prominent member of the company’s advisory board: Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney in Iowa. It is ...

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A federal judge temporarily blocked construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, ruling late Thursday that the Trump administration had failed to justify its decision granting a permit for the 1,200-mile long project designed to connect Canada’s tar sands crude ...

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On Thursday evening, Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., appeared on the steps of the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee, Florida, to address the ongoing ballot-counting in his race for the Senate. He began by articulating how his lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. ...

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WASHINGTON – Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said Thursday she would give a 2020 presidential bid “a long, hard thought of consideration,” marking a shift in posture from how she addressed questions about her ambitions during her just-concluded reelection campaign. Gillibrand, ...

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WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Western New York’s Tops grocery chain says it expects to emerge from bankruptcy “shortly,” after a court approved its restructuring plan. Tops Markets chief executive Frank Curci said Thursday the chain is poised to be a ...

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The day before she was sworn in to public office, Phyllis J. Randall created a new Facebook page and encouraged citizens to share criticism and compliments. A month later, Randall deleted what she deemed a “slanderous”accusation delivered anonymously and aimed ...

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A Pittsford man accused of murdering his father in 2015 was a drug dealer when he was a student at Cornell University before the killing. Tan’s cell phone records show that he sold marijuana to other students for $200 an ...

  WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized early Thursday morning after fracturing three ribs during a fall in her office Wednesday night, the court said. Ginsburg, 85, was admitted to George Washington University Hospital early this ...

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