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The change would let Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who is often seen wearing a hoodie and baseball shorts, wear his casual attire on the Senate floor whenever he wants.

A frighteningly toxic mix of synthetic opioid fentanyl and a human flesh-eating animal sedative has been blamed for an increasing number of U.S. overdose deaths, prompting a rare public health warning at the federal level last week and now, calls for more assistance at home. Longtime New York Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the feds Sunday to send a...

Everything to know about the the veterinary tranquilizer linked to an increase of overdose deaths nationwide.

The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday. Schumer, D-N.Y., told ABC’s “This Week” that he was briefed on Saturday night by President Joe Biden’s national security adviser,...

NSC Coordinator John Kirby says the U.S. shot down a “high-altitude object” flying Alaska airspace on Friday. Kirby said the object was smaller than the spy balloon shot down last week.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has been elected for another term as Democratic leader in the Senate. Democrats met behind closed doors Thursday at the Capitol to choose their leadership team.

Families across Long Island are demanding help to make their roads safer, as advocates call on help from the federal government as they say too many people have died this year as a result of reckless drivers.

Advocates say too many people have died this year due to reckless drivers on Long Island roads, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

During Thursday’s hearing on the riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Jan. 6 committee played behind the scenes footage of Democrat and Republican lawmakers coordinating with law enforcement for assistance as rioters broke through doors and windows.

A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where authorities say he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as his armed security detail led the New York Democrat to safety.

The Senate has approved Democrats’ big election-year economic package. The legislation is less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic goals.

New York City is declaring a public health emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak, a step that officials say will unlock additional tools to help slow the spread in the city that’s become the epicenter of another health crisis. Mayor Eric Adams and Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan officially issued the declaration Saturday, one day after Gov. Kathy Hochul...

A group of city, state and federal officials have requested the state to make a disaster declaration for monkeypox, Andrew Siff reports.

As New York has become the epicenter of another health crisis, the governor is taking action in order to ensure the state gets as much help from the federal government as possible to help control what has become the largest-ever monkeypox outbreak in America. Late Friday night, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a state disaster emergency in…

As the New York Health Department declares monkeypox an imminent threat to public health, more than 100 thousand more vaccines are coming to New York State, Andrew Siff reports.

President Joe Biden’s initial effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems had a price tag of $4 trillion. And it stalled in Congress. A much slimmer but still substantial compromise package costing $739 billion is now being considered by lawmakers. With strategies aimed at inflation-fighting health care, climate change and deficit reduction, the new measure appears headed...

The U.S. government will release nearly 800,000 more monkeypox vaccine doses from the federal stockpile, allocating more than 10% of them to the epicenter of America’s outbreak, New York City, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says — but it may be a while before all those doses will be distributed throughout the state. The Democratic senator from New York announced Thursday…

In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin have reached an expansive agreement that had eluded them for months on health care, energy and climate issues, taxes on higher earners and corporations and trimming the federal debt. The two Democrats say the Senate will vote on the wide-ranging measure next week, setting up President Joe...

Today Mayor Adams praised the White House collaboration with the city on monkeypox vaccines. Gus Rosendale reports.

A bill that would provide grants, tax credits and other incentives for computer chip manufacturing may soon see action in the Senate.