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Presence of Flock cameras grows in Albany amid nationwide debate
Grant Ashley
Documents obtained by WAMC show that the Albany first began installing Flock automated license plate reader cameras in August 2024 and now has 66.
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Carney warns Canadians of tough times ahead as counter tariffs take effect
Dan Karpenchuk
An Albany Police SUV stopped along Central Avenue.
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In New York, police reform initiatives show mixed results
Sam Dingman
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Plattsburgh's Strand Center for the Arts could close due to financial crisis
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The national flags of Canada, front, and the United States fly outside the Galleria Mall in Buffalo, New York, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026.
Gene J. Puskar
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AP
Canada's retaliatory tariffs go into effect on $20 billion worth of US products
Dan Karpenchuk
There have been no new talks scheduled, but Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is ready for serious talks once the rhetoric and insults from Washington, D.C., end.
A large sand sculpture commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence inside the Center of Progress building at the New York State Fair.
John Haeger
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NYS Fair
Despite severe weather and new security challenges, officials call the 2026 State Fair a success
Ellen Abbott
Pittsford, New York along Erie Canal in Monroe County.
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Will fall's colors be muted by fungal disease and wet weather?
Beth Adams
Congressman Tim Kennedy (D, NY-26) leads a news conference in Buffalo Sept. 4, 2026. Joining him, left to right, are House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D, MS-02), Rep. Nellie Pou (D, NJ-09) and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Lou Correa (D, CA-46).
Michael Mroziak
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BTPM News
Kennedy, Congressional peers demand DHS give Erie County DA all info needed in Alam death
Michael Mroziak
NPR News
Hannah Bloch
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NPR
Greetings from Paris, where the 2024 Olympics balloon rises again
Hannah Bloch
The floating Olympic cauldron, held aloft by a giant glowing balloon, is still making regular appearances two years after the 2024 Paris Games, showing up all summer long in the nighttime Paris sky.
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude assistant, has created an interactive tool to show how AI might affect the U.S economy a little or a lot in the next few years.
Imen Ben Youssef
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AFP
A new Anthropic model seeks to test how AI could impact the U.S. economy
Scott Horsley
The measles ward at Dhaka Shishu Hospital is full, even five months after the start of a massive outbreak in Bangladesh.
Ali Asif Shawon for NPR
Whatever happened to the measles outbreak that shocked a country this year?
Ali Asif Shawon
Demonstrators holding signs saying "EVERY PERSON COUNTS" rally outside the Supreme Court in 2019 in Washington, D.C., as the justices hear arguments over the first Trump administration's failed push to ask about U.S. citizenship status on the 2020 census.
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps
Hansi Lo Wang