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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (left) and Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca (right) during her visit to the Seneca Nation in May 2025, a first for a sitting governor.
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Seneca Nation calls on Hochul to make good on Thomas Indian School reconciliation
Ryan Zunner
During a legislative advocacy day at the state capitol, Seneca Nation President JC Seneca said the governor needs to start funding initiatives she promised during a visit to their territory last year to apologize for New York's role in the Indian boarding school system.
Transportation Security Administration officers staff a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Ill., in this 2010 photo. The agency was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — but not every U.S. airport uses federal screeners.
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TSA's new 'Gold+' program looks to increase private security screening at airports
Bill Chappell
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Vermont Senate votes to repeal Clean Heat Standard
Pat Bradley
A group of workers or volunteers wearing matching blue shirts sort donations and supplies inside a community center. The room they are in has exposed brick walls and wooden floors. A few people work together around tables filled with boxes, clothing and water bottles. A a woman using a wheelchair seems to direct the workers, holding a clipboard in front of them.
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Disabilities Beat: NYS budget stalemate continues, a push for higher human services wages
Emyle Watkins
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie speaks to reporters about budget negotiations at the state Capitol on Wednesday May 20, 2026.
Samuel King
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New York Public News Network
State lawmakers set to begin voting on budget legislation
Samuel King

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The Roundtable
5/21/26 Panel
Joe Donahue
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Senior Fellow for Health Policy at The Empire Center for Public Policy Bill Hammond and Former Mayor of the City of Albany Kathy Sheehan.
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Pets and Vets 5/20/26
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Berkshire International Film Festival celebrates 20 years
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The Roundtable
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Met Opera 2025 - 2026 Season
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Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff speaks with team during the third period in Game 1 of a second-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series against the Montreal Canadiens Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Buffalo.
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Sabres give head coach Lindy Ruff two-year contract extension
BTPM Staff
The Buffalo hockey team's winningest coach in its history now has him signed through the 2027-28 season.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announces a deal with unions that would reopen the Long Island Rail Road.
Marc A. Hermann
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Hochul avoids nightmare political scenario with LIRR strike deal
Jon Campbell, Walter Wuthmann
Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a March 19, 2026, news conference on the release of New York City high school student Dylan Lopez Contreras.
Don Pollard
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How Kathy Hochul got behind making New York a sanctuary state
Jimmy Vielkind, Arya Sundaram
The side of a yellow school bus with a red stop sign extended. Visible behind the stop sign is a housing for cameras that are intended to catch drivers illegally passing the bus.
Jeremy Moule
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WXXI News
New York to delay electric school bus mandate
Samuel King
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Campaign signs sit next to a road in Rockport, Maine. Graham Platner is expected to be the Democratic nominee and would face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the general election.
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Susan Collins brings federal dollars to Maine. She's hoping that's worth it to voters
Steve Mistler
As Maine's Senate matchup is all but set, incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins urges voters to pick her over Democrat Graham Platner because she can fund state priorities due to her seniority.
The property once owned by Jeffrey Epstein and that he called the Zorro Ranch outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in March.
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Amid allegations of abuse on Epstein's 'Zorro Ranch,' New Mexico opens new probes
Daniel Montaño
NPR
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Sisters reunite in Ali Smith's 'Glyph,' bringing light after the darkness of 'Gliff'
Heller McAlpin
Harvard professor Sean Eddy, whose federal funding was terminated by the Trump administration last year, describes the loss as a "10-year hit to a lab."
Jodi Hilton for NPR
Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Katia Riddle