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Top New York Democrats were silent Tuesday as Gov. David Paterson, already fighting to remain politically viable, fought to lay to rest unconfirmed rumors and news reports of womanizing and drug use.

President Barack Obama acknowledged the deep partisan divisions gripping Congress, but he urged Republican and Democratic leaders Tuesday to cooperate on legislation that creates jobs.

The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations and unions can spend all they want to campaign for or against candidates.

WASHINGTON - The National Republican Senatorial Committee is eyeing New York as a once solidly Democratic state that may follow in the footsteps of Massachusetts by electing a Republican to the Senate.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday he will fight a federal budget proposal to transfer elite Coast Guard teams from four cities, including one stationed at New York Harbor since the Sept.

New York has turned its bloody thumbs down to the prospect of a civil trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the city he terrorized several years ago.

The New York State wine industry, and perhaps the wine industry in general, no doubt will be sending a collective thank-you note to U.S. Sen.

Share + Feb 6, 2010 11:30 am US/Eastern ALBANY U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has represented New York state for more than a decade with little serious opposition.

Just after 5 p.m. Thursday, the headcount in the Senate shifted one seat to the Republican side, as Sen.

Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes, New York State Senator Carl Kruger and US Senator Charles Schumer announced charges against 12 people involved in various, unrelated mortgage and real estate scams, Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says the biggest challenge facing Central New York is the economy, and promised this week to make job growth for the Syracuse region her top local priority.

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Following Mayor Michael Bloomberg's reversal Wednesday of his earlier stance on holding the 9/11 terror trial in Lower Manhattan, the Real Estate Board of New York went public with its opposition to the Justice Department's plan.

The Obama administration is considering local objections as it weighs whether to try the alleged mastermind of the Sept.

Republican state senators and Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer are proposing separate but similar job-creating programs that would use tax incentives to entice employers to hire the unemployed.

President Obama's proposed 2010-2011 federal budget would include millions in a additional funding for the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages program to help out with funding Medicaid.

In advance of Tuesday's hearing on the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizen's United vs.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has dropped below the all-important 50% approval mark for the first time since 2001.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says he got the message: Washington's focus has to be "jobs, jobs, jobs." With Democrats scolded by recent election results in Massachusetts, Schumer spoke the jobs mantra at McAlpin Industries of Rochester on Monday as he toured the sheet-metal plant and promoted a proposed bipartisan payroll-tax cut.

The Supreme Court's decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics - foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections.