A bipartisan pair of lawmakers from New York introduced legislation Friday to impose antisemitism monitors on college and university campuses that receive federal funding.

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., introduced the bill as demonstrations by thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt college campuses across the country.

The Donald Trump hush money trial is under way, the first criminal case against a former president in U.S. history. Witness testimony resumed Friday.

Trump faces 34 charges of falsifying business records around purported efforts to cover up his alleged infidelity with an adult film actress during his 2016 presidential campaign. The former president has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.

Shannon Thomas thought he was in trouble when he got a call from his manager Monday night.

He wasn’t.

Utica University professor Clemmie Harris is ending his campaign for the Democratic nomination in the race for New York's 22nd Congressional District.

Harris wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, said the move was a result of a dispute over ballot signature requirements with another candidate, DeWitt Town Councilor Sarah Klee Hood.

This week, tensions have risen at Columbia University as students continue protesting the Israel-Hamas War. Negotiations between students and faculty to dismantle the encampment that students have set up on campus have been ongoing. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, House Republicans joined Speaker Mike Johnson on campus to call for the resignation of Columbia University’s president, Minoushe Shafik. All this, as faculty and students of the university senate are expected to vote to censure Shafik. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross and political reporters Bobby Cuza and Kelly Mena weigh in on the campus protests and how the NYPD and city have reacted to them.

After that, Mayor Eric Adams released his executive budget on Wednesday, which included restorations of cuts made to the NYPD but did not include restored library funds. Many city lawmakers pushed back and said the Adams administration’s budget announced months ago had too many unnecessary cuts, and library advocates warn these cuts will lead to reduced service. The “Off Topic” team discusses the budgeting dance between City Council and Adams, and what this means for libraries going forward.

New York lawmakers said they will prioritize enhancing the state's consumer protection laws before session ends after the bolstered law Gov. Kathy Hochul originally wanted in the budget didn't make the final $237 billion spending plan.

With the state budget completed last weekend, lawmakers are working on items they can campaign on back home before November's critical elections.

Former tabloid publisher David Pecker resumed his third day of testimony Thursday. Pecker faced questions from prosecutors over what they say was a conspiracy with Trump and his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to help Trump's presidential bid by killing unfavorable stories about him.

Also, for the first day, Pecker was cross-examined by Trump's legal team.

Landlords of rent-stabilized apartments in New York City are saying this year’s budget was a lost opportunity.

Jay Martin, executive director of CHIP-NYC, the Community Housing Improvement Program, which represents the owners of New York City’s 400,000 rent-stabilized rental properties, told Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter that the math doesn’t add up.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- New York state has already announced its Empire AI Consortium, named the University at Buffalo as the program's hub and even secured private contributions.

However, UB Vice President of Research and Economic Development Venu Govindaraju said it wasn't until lawmakers passed the budget over the weekend, including $250 million for the initiative, that it officially became a reality.

President Joe Biden traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., on Thursday -- home of his law school alma mater, Syracuse University -- to announce $6.1 billion in federal funding for Micron Technology to boost the production of advanced memory computer chips.

Biden hailed the CHIPS and Science Act -- a 2022 bill championed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that aims to boost domestic manufacturing -- for luring Micron to Central New York, where the company, the president said, plans "to build the biggest semiconductor manufacturing site in all of America.”

For the second time in a year and a half, President Joe Biden visited Syracuse on Thursday to tout Micron's coming investment in the region, this time announcing a preliminary agreement between the Department of Commerce and Micron to provide up to $6.14 billion in direct funding to support both Micron’s new semiconductor plant in the town of Clay, as well as another fab in Boise, Idaho.

Biden's visit also coincides with the announcement that Syracuse has been named as one of four “Investing in America Work Hubs.” The others being Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Michigan. It comes after a first round of hubs were designated by the White House, including centers in Phoenix, Arizona, and Columbus, Ohio, that focus on semiconductor training.

An increase in teen depression and mental health disorders over the last decade has largely been attributed to the widespread adoption of the smartphone by adolescents. Parents are obsessively worrying about screen time and the effects it could have on their children.

One such parent is Zephyr Teachout, attorney, author, political candidate and associate professor of law at Fordham University. Teachout joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss the dangerous and addictive content teens are being fed by social media platforms. They also talked about the government’s role in regulation, the status of the TikTok ban and how the algorithm preys on children’s weaknesses.

As school districts begin to prepare their budgets, they now have a better idea of what they are preparing for.

Questions surrounding foundation aid clouded much of the first part of the year and raised questions about if districts would see their funding levels drop.

A TikTok video put Abbey Kowalec and her business on the map.

“I find that when someone reaches out to me, the first thing they say is, ‘Oh, I found you on TikTok,’” Kowalec said. “I would say 70 to 80% of my customer base comes from TikTok.”

More than three years into President Joe Biden’s term, White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi says the administration has made “historic progress at a massive scale” in combating global warming.

“But,” he continued, “there's still a lot of work to be done.”

This week, former President Donald Trump’s fate is on the docket in two separate courtrooms: The hush money case in New York City continues. Plus, arguments regarding Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution take place Thursday before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Separately, a critically important case called Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany v. Vullo, dealing with the mandatory coverage of abortion, was argued earlier this month in New York’s highest court.

Mayor Eric Adams insists that things are looking up.

“The city is not coming back folks. The city is back,” Adams said Wednesday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In a Siena College poll released this week, 66% of New York voters who answered the survey said they support requiring high school athletes can only compete against others of the gender they were assigned at birth.

While 83% of Republicans and 77% of independent voters support the idea, even a slight majority of Democrats are in favor.

President Joe Biden is making his second trip to Syracuse in less than two years on Thursday. This comes after the recent announcement that Micron will receive $6.1 billion in federal funding through the CHIPS and Science Act.

The last time Biden visited Syracuse, he came to Onondaga Community College (OCC). A professor discussed the memory chips Micron will produce, and how OCC is growing a pipeline of workers to build them.

Abortion rights activists aren't pleased with New York's budget that passed over the weekend — saying Wednesday the $237 billion spending plan will not assist health care providers experiencing large gaps to cover medication abortions for Medicaid patients.

Reproductive rights continue to be a national conversation after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on an Idaho abortion ban and nearly two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

New York’s mental health court system will soon see an extra $33 million investment for treatment services, as part of the newly minted $237 billion budget.

“[I] just took a tour of former cells, holding centers, that are now going to be turned into rooms of healing where we can address people and help them get on a healthy path towards recovery,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said at the Midtown Community Justice Center on Wednesday.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — In celebration of Earth Week, the New York State Commissioner of Agriculture visited Western New York to announce the availability of grant funds for climate-resilient farming.

Commissioner Richard Bell announced that $28.75 million is being made available to farmers through the Climate Resilient Farming Grant for 2024. He announced the Providence Farm Collective in Orchard Park.

A coalition of attorneys general led by New York's Letitia James is calling on Congress to expand access to in vitro fertilization and other reproductive health services.

The group wants lawmakers to pass the Access to Family Building Act.

New York local government sales tax collections increased 1.6%, totaling $5.6 billion, in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office said Wednesday.

It is the lowest rate of growth in the first quarter since 2021, the comptroller added.

President Joe Biden has pardoned a Capital Region resident and commuted the sentence of a Hudson Valley resident who were sentenced for drug-related offenses.

The White House announced that Stacy Lynn Wilder, 49 of Albany, was pardoned after serving a sentence for a non-violent drug offense. Margaret Ann Vandyke of Ellenville saw her sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and fentanyl commuted to end in late August.

Public sector union advocates pushing for state pension reform saw a victory in this year's state budget.

They say previous reforms that took place in 2012 under then-Governor Andrew Cuomo gutted some of the benefits that attract people to public service in the first place. This budget cycle, they achieved part of a push to make benefits for Tier 6 employees, hired after those reforms, look more like those hired as part of Tier 4.

A new poll from the nonprofit No Kid Hungry New York details that 79% of New Yorkers across the state are saying it had become harder to afford groceries over the past year, a rise from the year before.

Rachel Sabella, the director of the New York branch, joined NY1 political reporter Ayana Harry on “Inside City Hall” Tuesday to break down the results, including a focus on New York City households.

Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered a big public thank you to labor leaders Tuesday for their help getting her controversial — and at times seemingly elusive — housing package over the finish line.

“I will tell you, it also helped to have labor on our side,” Hochul said Tuesday during a rally at Service Employees International Union 32BJ’s headquarters on West 18th Street.

More than 600,000 children are abused in the U.S. each year, according to the National Children's Alliance.

In New York, child advocacy centers investigated more than 1,000 cases of child abuse in 2023. Of those, there were more than 700 alleged offenders and almost 50 arrests.

One sheriff’s deputy and one police officer were killed in a single incident in near the city of Syracuse last week.

A third police officer was shot and killed in New York City during a routine traffic stop in late March.

All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives are up for reelection in November, including the 26 in New York. Spectrum News political reporters will be providing updates throughout the campaign season on New York's congressional races.

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Former Rep. George Santos has ended his short-lived run to get back into the U.S. House of Representatives, he announced on social media Tuesday evening.

Santos, who was expelled from the House in December, wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he is dropping out of the race because he does not want to “be responsible for handing the house” to the Democrats.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- As the nation follows closely former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan, details of what happened in the courtroom will have to come from reporters and others on site.

With the exception of pool photos taken of the former president last week before the trial began in earnest, cameras and audio recorders are not allowed in court.

You can find over-the-counter dietary pills and supplements at grocery and big-box stores all over New York state. But a new law is trying to limit their reach to the youngest demographic.

A law that goes into effect on Monday bans the sale of the supplements to anyone under the age of 18. Experts say they are underregulated and could have harmful health effects on kids.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — There is growing concern by some artificial intelligence experts that AI-generated deepfakes could impact the 2024 presidential election campaign. It’s a complicated issue, but there are ways to detect whether what you’re seeing is fake.

It doesn’t take long for Kelly Wu to find something that’s just not right.

New York state’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year was passed over the weekend. It came after weeks of debate among legislative leaders and Gov. Kathy Hochul, negotiations largely focused on a deal to address the state’s housing crisis.

Coming in just shy of three weeks late, it was by all accounts a largely collegial process, but it has left many to wonder why a late budget in New York seems to surprise very few.

Former President Donald Trump returned to court Monday for the start of the second week of proceedings and opening statements.

He is being charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York.

Gov. Kathy Hochul visited small businesses and educational facilities on Monday, celebrating what she calls wins in her recently passed a $237 billion state budget.

The legislature passed the state budget over the weekend, and the governor quickly signed it into law.

As Donald Trump's criminal trial connected to alleged hush money he paid to former adult film star Stormy Daniels begins in earnest Monday morning, a majority of New York voters believe the trial is "legitimate," according to a new Siena College poll.

Among registered voters polled, 60% said they are paying attention to the court proceedings in which the former president and current expected Republican nominee is accused of falsifying business records. Fifty-four percent said the trial is "legitimate" as opposed to 30% who believe it is a "witch hunt."

On the surface, the housing deal in the enacted state budget includes many of the provisions that activists had fought for, including elements of the Good Cause Eviction bill and union wages for construction workers.

It also includes a new tax incentive for New York City developers and incentives to convert unused office space into affordable housing.

There will be new temporary import requirements for dairy cattle coming to New York after detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, in dairy cattle and goats in several other states, the state Department of Agriculture and Markets announced Monday.

The regulations include:

New York state lawyers and an attorney for former President Donald Trump settled their differences Monday over a $175 million bond that Trump posted to block a large civil fraud judgment while he pursues appeals.

The agreement cut short a potential day-long court hearing in Manhattan that was to feature witnesses.

President Joe Biden will visit Central New York on Thursday on the heels of an announcement of funding for Micron, Spectrum News 1 learned Monday.

The president will visit Syracuse to discuss the economic impact of the CHIPS and Science Act, the White House said. The exact details of his visit have not been released.

Over the weekend, state legislators passed a $237 billion budget. As usual, the big story isn’t the budget itself—it’s all of the policy decisions that were rolled into it, sometimes as a result of last-minute negotiations. NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan breaks down some of the highlights.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed off on major parts of policy in the $237 billion state budget.

Both the New York state Senate and Assembly had approved the budget earlier Saturday, which was nearly three weeks overdue.

Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County.

Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature?

Increases to the state's disability benefits cap were removed from New York's $237 billion budget during negotiations to the dismay of lawmakers.

Workers in New York who need short-term disability can receive a maximum benefit of $170 per week, which hasn't changed in 35 years, or since 1989.

As lawmakers vote on the remaining budget bills, the Fiscal Policy Institute’s Nathan Gusdorf joined Capital Tonight to share an early analysis of the budget that will be in place for the next fiscal year.

With the budget process seemingly wrapping up, lawmakers are beginning to reflect on what was accomplished and what is still left to do.

While Democrats control both houses of the state Legislature and the governor’s mansion, this year’s budget process demonstrated that there is enough differences among those lawmakers to hold up the process for nearly three weeks.

A new analysis from the Alliance for the Great Lakes found that over two decades, nearly 90% of the litter collected from the beaches was composed of plastic.

Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about plastic pollution in the environment for years and in New York, they are pushing for legislation on the issue.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -– Tesla plans to layoff 285 employees in Buffalo, the vast majority of which work at its South Buffalo gigafactory.

Empire Center for Public Policy Research Director Ken Girardin is not surprised.

A law created to prevent Indian Point manager Holtec from dumping nuclear wastewater into the Hudson River is at the center of a lawsuit filed by Holtec against New York state.

The environmental advocacy group Riverkeeper fought to get the Save The Hudson act signed last year.

Illegal cannabis shops and their landlords are set to face harsher enforcement and steeper fines under measures included in the state budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday.

A five-point plan Hochul unveiled alongside Mayor Eric Adams in Manhattan will give the state’s Office of Cannabis Management and local authorities the power to padlock illegal shops.

Twelve jurors tasked with deciding the outcome of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial have been seated. The panel consists of seven men and five women.

Trump is facing 34 charges related to the alleged falsification of business records in connection with efforts to conceal an alleged affair during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied the affair.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York's 26th Congressional District has been without a representative for more than two months.

When Democrat Brian Higgins stepped down in February to take over as president of Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, he said it was in fact Congress that had become more about dramatics then results. Both candidates who are vying to finish his term agree.

The November 2022 winter storm wreaked havoc on parts of Erie County. It also did major damage to many agricultural businesses.

Now, county lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have agreed they need to help these impacted growers.

Stakeholders in New York's cannabis industry are growing apart about how regulators must fix its dragging rollout as the state Office of Cannabis Management undergoes a state executive review.

The Cannabis Farmers Alliance on Wednesday blasted the Cannabis Association of New York in response to a letter that the organization sent to the Cannabis Control Board last week warning against the swift issuing of several more retail licenses. As part of its ongoing OCM review, the executive chamber is pressuring board members to expedite hundreds of retail licenses to defeat the state's thriving illicit market.

This week Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she finally “had the parameters of a conceptual agreement” for the $237 billion state budget, claiming that only minor details need to be negotiated. Some lawmakers said they were caught off guard by the announcement. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross, statehouse reporter Bernadette Hogan and political reporter Bobby Cuza discuss the reaction on the legislative side to Hochul’s announcement, as well as the issue of what’s in and what's out of the deal. They also touch on the mysterious cyberattack that was directed at the New York State Bill Drafting Commission that may delay matters even further.

After that, the commotion surrounding Donald Trump moved uptown this week when the former president visited a Harlem bodega while here in Manhattan for his hush money trial. Why was Trump in Harlem? And will this trial serve as an extended campaign stop for the Republican presidential candidate? The "Off Topic" team weighs in on the latest twists and turns of Trump’s stay in the city.

After decades of what the state attorney general calls a mishandling of clergy sex abuse cases, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn agreed to install an independent secular monitor.

“There are many people like me out there. We know that there are not hundreds, but thousands in the state of New York,” Stephen Jimenez, a survivor of clergy sex abuse, said.

New York's $237 billion budget is expected to include a pilot program in Western New York to make local mental health professionals the default response to incidents involving mental health issues or substance use instead of law enforcement.

State lawmakers have passed four of 10 budget bills, and continued Thursday night to conference the details of the program, which will likely be confined to the city of Rochester for the initial pilot.

New York Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation aimed at improving the federal government’s response to public health emergencies, citing shortcomings in how the feds handled an mpox outbreak two years ago.

Torres’s bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a department-wide strategy for after-action reviews of major health events, incorporating analysis from across the department’s various agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The review should include people from outside the department.

Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrated what she’s calling the first of several victories in her $237 billion budget package, announcing that a majority of her retail theft proposal will make it into the final plan.

“A lot of critics said we couldn’t get it done, that we’d fall short, that it would be a watered-down version, but I’m here to say we got it done exactly the way we had hoped for, because it’s something I would not budge on,” Hochul said on Thursday from her Manhattan office.

Facing a possible $1 billion deficit over the next decade without additional support from New York state, this budget cycle presented high stakes questions for leaders of the State University of New York system.

That picture became clearer with state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins telling reporters Thursday afternoon that the final budget is expected to include about $60 million in operating aid for SUNY. That’s $6 million more than what Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed in her executive budget.

Republican U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney is teaming up with North Carolina Democratic Rep. Deborah Ross on a bill that aims to close a loophole in federal bankruptcy laws that impacts survivors of sexual abuse.

Tenney joined Capital Tonight on Thursday from Washington to discuss how the bill works and its chances of getting through the closely divided House of Representatives.

A New York man has pleaded guilty to sending death threats to the state attorney general and the Manhattan judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, prosecutors said Thursday.

Tyler Vogel, 26, of Lancaster, admitted to one felony count of making a terroristic threat and one misdemeanor count of making a threat of mass harm on Wednesday in state Supreme Court, according to Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael Keane’s office.

For more than eight years, Basil Seggos had led the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, trying to help New York in its transition away from fossil fuels. Now leaving office, Seggos joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss New York’s pivotal 2019 climate law and his own tenure with two different governors. They also spoke about Seggos’ dramatic first day in office and his top priority for his successor.

Join the conversation, weigh in on Twitter using the hashtag #NY1YouDecide or give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message. Or send an email to YourStoryNY1@charter.com.

Leaders in the state Office of Cannabis Management on Wednesday celebrated the opening of the state's 100th legal dispensary — putting on a brave face as the governor's office works to finish a review of the troubled department and needed changes to get New York's recreational marijuana industry off the ground.

State and local officials attended the grand opening of Big Gas Dispensary LLC in New Paltz, Ulster County, where emotions ran high.

Micron has agreed to a preliminary deal that would unlock more than $6 billion in federal funding toward its chip-manufacturing plans in Central New York and beyond, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday evening.

Schumer's office said the company has agreed to a $6.1 billion preliminary memorandum of terms, or a PMT funding agreement, covering its Micron project in Clay, near Syracuse, and one in Idaho.

Columbia University’s president and other school officials faced a grilling on Capitol Hill Wednesday over their handling of antisemitism on campus.

Officials acknowledged there is more work to do.

After announcing a conceptual agreement on the state budget earlier this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that only minor details need to be negotiated.

Some lawmakers said they were caught off guard by the announcement of a deal. However, in an interview with NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall,” Hochul said she has done this type of agreement with her last two budgets.

The New York state Legislature still hasn't voted on a state budget, despite Gov. Kathy Hochul announcing the "framework" of a conceptual agreement on Monday.

The governor has acknowledged that details still need to be ironed out, but it is still not clear when the budget process will be wrapped up. State senators meanwhile told reporters as they left conference for the day that they plan to pass another budget extender Thursday possibly bumping the budget deadline to next week.

State officials are investigating a major cyberattack on the government agency charged with drafting state budget bills.

The investigation comes as the Legislature and governor are finalizing the details of the $237 billion state budget.

While the presidential election is seven months away, the race is on to get enough petition signatures for third party candidates to get on the ballot here in the Empire State.

One of those candidates looking to make their mark this November is Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party's nominee in 2012 and 2016 who has a commanding lead in her party's primary for her third run.

Crucible Industries is a Central New York-based steel company.

President John Shiesley said because the company makes highly specialized products, it competes directly with Chinese companies less than other upstate mills but the country is a concern nonetheless.

Senate Democrats quickly dismissed impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, voting to rule each of the two impeachment charges unconstitutional on the trial's first day.

All Republicans voted no on the questions of dismissal, bar Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate who voted present on the first charge and voted against the second charge.

House lawmakers officially delivered articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the U.S. Senate Tuesday.

House Republicans, who first approved the articles back in February, are demanding the Senate hold a full trial.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state’s residents want to see a state budget “that delivers for them” and says there is a lot in the conceptual agreement reached Monday between her and legislative leaders that those residents can be proud of.

The governor sat down with Capital Tonight on Tuesday to discuss some of the parameters of that agreement that includes public safety measures, record funding in education and a housing plan.

New York budget conversations in Albany are winding down — and that's how Gov. Kathy Hochul wants it after announcing a budget framework without details while lawmakers continue to discuss parts left unfinished.

State lawmakers on Wednesday are scheduled to conference remaining details of the the $237 billion Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget, including parts of the housing package, mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts to Medicaid programs.

One of the major topics this state budget cycle was K-12 education funding, and whether Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to make changes to the Foundation Aid formula would survive the negotiating process after legislative leaders came out against it.

The governor announced a “conceptual” budget agreement Monday that she said commits $36 billion to education, the highest in state history.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Democratic congressional candidate Nate McMurray submitted more than 1,400 designating petitions to the state Board of Elections as he pushes for ballot access in New York's 26th Congressional District primary in June, which would take place after the special election this month.

However, a lawsuit brought by his potential opponent, state Sen. Tim Kennedy, and a voter claimed, at best, 382 of the signatures McMurray submitted are valid. That would put the candidate well below the minimum of 1,250 needed.

After Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she struck a “conceptual” agreement on a $237 billion spending package on Monday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie appeared to back her up.

However, fellow Democrats in the state Legislature on Tuesday had various questions because they still had yet to discuss final details tied to big-ticket items like housing and health care.

The road to control of the U.S. House next year runs in no small part through New York, with competitive congressional contests on Long Island, in the Hudson Valley and in the Syracuse area.

New York is also home to a bitter Democratic primary battle, in which the Israel-Hamas War is a defining issue.

For many New Yorkers, tax day isn't a day to celebrate but advocates in New York state used the day to call for higher taxes on the highest earners here in the Empire State.

Michael Kink, the executive director of Strong Economy for All, joined Capital Tonight on Tax Day to talk about tax revenue and spending priorities.

New York’s highest court will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that seeks to throw out a regulation requiring health insurance policies to cover medically necessary abortions — a case that could jeopardize a similar state law.

The lawsuit was filed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and other church groups that argue that the rule violates their religious beliefs.

Unhappy with Mayor Adams' response to the migrant crisis, the City Council is forming its own team of advisors who will draw up a blueprint to help the city deal with its thousands of newcomers.

The Council on Tuesday released a list of people and organizations that will comprise its “New Arrival Strategy Team" — which include former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messenger; former Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios Paoli; and Plachikkat Anatharam, who served in the Mayor’s office of Management and Budget for many years.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York legislative leaders have come to a preliminary agreement on the state budget that includes a comprehensive housing plan, record funding in education and increased emphasis on public safety measures, the governor said.

Lawmakers on Monday appeared to have found consensus on a spending plan worth $237 billion, which is up from $233 billion that the governor proposed at the start of the legislative session in January.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a conceptual budget agreement Monday that outlined the state's $237 billion spending plan, but as negotiations continue, it was largely void of details of one of the state's greatest expenditures: Medicaid.

Hochul's announcement of the budget's framework comes before leaders have solidified a deal on health care spending and other pieces of a housing package. The Senate and Assembly conferenced the issues Monday night, and will have additional discussions Tuesday afternoon.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tesla plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce.

According to multiple national media reports, CEO Elon Musk detailed the plans in an internal memo sent to employees over the weekend.

New York’s proposed Medical Aid in Dying Act got the endorsement from the Medical Society of the State of New York, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who sponsors the legislation in that chamber, announced Monday.

The act would allow terminally ill, mentally capable adults who have been given six months or less to live to take their own lives with a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs.

As the hush-money trial involving former President Donald Trump is poised to commence Monday in Manhattan, a former federal prosecutor on Monday shed light on the jury selection process set to unfold.

Step one in the trial is the task of handpicking an impartial jury, a task that Trump’s attorneys have argued would be difficult given the political atmosphere of New York City. However, their petitions to have the trial moved out of the city have repeatedly been rejected.

A researcher from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations designed a free tool, The Wage Atlas Tool, that allows users to look at wage data by profession and different demographic variables. The tool shows that only half of New Yorkers are making a living wage.

Compassion Coalition is a non-profit that runs Bargain Grocery in Utica. He knows food insecurity is an issue across New York State.

Several prominent New York officials expressed support for Israel Saturday night after Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the country's highest-ranking Jewish elected official, held a press conference Sunday to share details from a Saturday night call he had with top U.S. administration officials.

Booms and air raid sirens sounded in Israel Sunday after Iran confirmed that it launched an unprecented and extensive drone operation on the country.

Eric Goldstein, the CEO of the United Jewish Appeal⁣ – ⁣Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, was in Tel Aviv for a family wedding during the attack.

A fourth state budget extender was approved and signed, but a final deal proved elusive on Friday.

While the gears were turning and progress appeared to be made, the extenders are necessary to keep state government funded until whatever agreement is eventually reached makes its way through the legislative process.

Climate activists view the New York state budget as the best chance for passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act.

The bill (S.2129A Krueger/A.3351A Dinowitz) would force oil companies to help pay for damages caused by the climate crisis — damages that environmental justice communities have been dealing with for decades, in some cases.