MILWAUKEE — In back-to-back speeches during the second night of the Republican National Convention, the U.S. House Republican leadership team pressed members of the party’s base to help them increase their ranks during November’s elections, promising that a greater Republican majority would lead to more conservative legislation. The GOP controls a razor-thin margin in the chamber […]

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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told the crowd at the Republican National Convention Tuesday that electing former President Donald Trump in 2024 will support law enforcement and curtail crime in the country. Bird first won election in 2022, defeating longtime Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller who “was first elected when I was just two years […]

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The U.S. Senate candidate is the only one from Pennsylvania who was scheduled to speak at the convention.

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MILWAUKEE — Despite former President Donald Trump’s denial of any connection to the conservative presidential transition plan known as Project 2025, the initiative’s driver, the Heritage Foundation, promoted the platform mere blocks from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, attracting officials and personalities from the party’s most conservative wing. The project has taken heat from […]

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The city of Albany is temporarily hitting the brakes on implementing a new 25 mile per hour speed limit.

A thunderstorm Monday evening toppled trees and downed power lines across the Southern Tier. A mobile home park in Montour Falls sustained particularly severe damage.

Attendees at the one-hour session, hosted by the U.S. Concealed Carry Association near the Republican National Convention, weren’t actually able to conceal carry any firearms, since it was held inside a Secret Service security checkpoint. 

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Legislators, counties, conservation groups and landowners have asked state regulators to reconsider their permit approval for an expansive carbon dioxide pipeline system in Iowa. A total of eight requests were filed with the Iowa Utilities Commission in the past week before a procedural deadline on Monday, and they are likely precursors to lawsuits in state […]

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The jury’s verdict of guilty on all counts came on the third day of deliberations and after a nine-week trial at the federal courthouse in Manhattan. It makes Menendez just the seventh sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of a federal crime.

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