In a blow to House Democrats and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the liberal majority on the Wisconsin supreme court will not hear a challenge to the state’s congressional map. National Democrats had ...

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State Assembly and Senate leaders have rejected the MTA’s $65 billion capital plan, forcing negotiations with the Legislature when it reconvenes in January.

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John King, a former state education commissioner and the former U.S. education secretary during the Obama administration, has been tapped to become the chancellor of New York's 64-campus public ...