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New York Times
April 28, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midtermÃâà...
New York Times
April 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee released on Friday the results of its investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, and Democrats issued a dissenting report. The accounts reached dueling interpretations of a litany of information about contactsÃâà...
New York Times
April 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee declared in a 250-page report on Friday that their yearlong investigation uncovered no evidence that the Trump campaign had aided Russia's election meddling, only ill-advised contacts between campaign aides and Russian officials orÃâà...
New York Times
April 26, 2018
Analysts say Mr. Modi is fixated on winning next year's election in India. And it is a measure of the fraught relationship between China and India right now that he is seen as needing Mr. Xi's help to do that. Officials from both countries are describing the leaders' meeting, which came at India's request, as aÃâà...
City & State
April 25, 2018
With 212 out of 219 election districts reporting. Unlike the race in Westchester, the competition to fill current New York City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr.'s vacant seat in the Bronx was over before it started. Democratic Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda won the heavily Democratic district with nearly 90 percent ofÃâà...
New York Times
April 25, 2018
The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge to win the special congressional election on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. Sign up for election ... See the drop in Republican margins in special elections since Donald J. Trump became president.
Vox
April 25, 2018
In a Tuesday night special election race on Long Island, Democrats flipped a long-Republican State Assembly district to mark their 40th Trump-era takeover ... According to an extremely useful comprehensive spreadsheet compiled by Daily Kos, across 70 special elections in 2017, Democrats ran 10 pointsÃâà...
New York Times
April 8, 2018
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, who has set about transforming this former Soviet bloc member from a vibrant democracy into a semi-autocratic state under one political party's control, appeared to have won a sweeping victory in national elections on Sunday, with 93Ãâà...
Albany Times Union (blog)
December 31, 1999
Two environmental groups are suing the state over a type of water pollution permit required of businesses across New York. (TU). The governor signed an executive order to finally repair NYCHA developments, directing an independent monitor to oversee the process. The fine print was made public – andÃâà...