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Noah Berger
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Associated Press
2026 has already brought a wave of setbacks for social media giants as pressure grows on Big Tech from regulators and lawmakers around the world.
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(Airs 8/27/26 @ 3 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul says the Trump Administration’s tariff policy is hurting New York farmers, we’ll report on one county in the state that says it will not follow a new law that bars police agencies from cooperating with ICE, and we’ll have an update on a man that wants to test howitzer cannons in the Adirondacks.
New York Public Media
Beth Adams
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WXXI News
Tar spot flourishes in wet spring and summer, which Rochester had this year.
Gino Fanelli
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WXXI News
Darren McGee
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Office of the Governor
Max Schulte
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WXXI News
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Disabled researchers are challenging New York’s portrayal of their Kendra’s Law evaluation, citing concerns about harms reported by people under assisted outpatient treatment, or AOT. -
President Donald Trump mused on social implied the name of the lake is tied to the Canadian province, instead of the other way around. -
Rensselaer County Sheriff Kyle Bourgault and Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin had for months said they planned to ignore the new state law, even after the New York State Attorney General’s Office ordered them to comply in July.
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Andrew Harnik
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Getty Images North America
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada .
Brendan Smialowski
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AFP
Margaret Albaugh for NPR
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NPR critics remember some of their favorite Dolly performances — including a duet with Kermit the Frog and the twinkle in Dolly's eye singing with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. -
A big glass of moo juice — no, make that several glasses a day — is common in Rwanda. Is that too much of a good thing? -
At least 1,500 people are missing, many of them foreign tourists, after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border, sweeping away entire villages.
