Trying to portray party unity, prominent New York Democrats showed strong support Tuesday for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

When asked about Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Spectrum News, “We had a good conversation about the path forward.”

In 2010, 17-year-old Kalief Browder was arrested for stealing a backpack. Because of prosecutorial delays, he ended up waiting for his day in court, on Rikers Island, for three years, much of it while in solitary. The enormous emotional toll of his confinement was said to have contributed to his ultimate suicide.

Browder’s story was one of the reasons back in 2020 that New York passed discovery reform, a law designed to make the legal system fairer by ensuring that prosecutors disclose evidence to the defense in a timely manner.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Advocacy is a key tenet of new Seneca Nation President J.C. Seneca's approach to governing.

He's spent significant time over his first few months in office not only communicating with his people, but state and federal lawmakers about how their decisions impact the sovereign tribal nation.

Lawmakers expect a fairly peaceful budget process this year, but Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders are at odds over how much rental assistance to put in the annual spending plan as they look to reverse the state's ongoing shortage of affordable housing.

The governor isn't backing $250 million the Senate and Assembly proposed in each one-house budget to create a Housing Access Voucher Program and remains focused on building up a lacking housing supply instead.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. – Rep. Pat Ryan is raising awareness about the concerns families across the Hudson Valley have regarding affordability. The congressman on Tuesday visited Alexis Diner in Newburgh for "kitchen table" conversations with housing experts, dairy farmers and child care experts.

The attendees held candid discussions about inflation prices, tariffs and the affordable housing crisis impacting New Yorkers.

Advocates in New York for the formerly incarcerated are pushing for the passage of the Reentry Assistance Bill, which aims to provide more monetary support to people reentering society after being in prison.

“I had to acquire an entire wardrobe, I had to acquire basic hygiene, I had to provide for my basic necessities and I only had $40,” said Christopher Wallace, who spent 15 years behind bars. He said he was lucky enough to have housing to return to, but not everyone does.

A lawsuit against New York alleging sexual abuse decades ago was tossed out by the state’s top court Tuesday because it lacked specific information, drawing criticism from advocates concerned about setting unrealistically high standards for survivors to recall traumatic events.

The state Court of Appeals reversed a lower appeals court and granted the state's motion to dismiss the claim from a man who says he was repeatedly sexually assaulted around a state-run theater in Albany from 1986 to 1990, starting when he was 12. The suit was filed under the Child Victims Act, a 2019 state law that temporarily allowed people to sue over sexual abuse they suffered long ago as children.

New York state Senate Republicans on Tuesday called for Gov. Kathy Hochul to rescind her executive order that prohibits the state from hiring at any state service job any correction officers that were terminated or resigned as a result of the three-week wildcat strike, according to a letter the conference sent.

The executive order also recommends these workers be removed from the Central Registry of Police and Peace Officers for cause. It means they would also be prevented from being hired as a police or peace officer in state and local jurisdictions. About 2,000 termination notices were sent out when the state declared the strike as over on March 10.

The federal government and a Columbia University student threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel have been sparring in court over the Trump administration’s move to ship him halfway across the country to an immigration lockup in Louisiana.

The government says he could not be detained at an immigration facility near where he was originally arrested in part because of a bedbug infestation, so they sent him to Louisiana. The student, Mahmoud Khalil, says there was no such discussion of bedbugs and he feared he was being immediately deported.

New details have emerged in the court case against the gunman behind the 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo.

A U.S. District judge rejected a motion to dismiss the federal indictment of Payton Gendron, whose attorneys argue that the case violates the Constitution, specifically that it didn't meet procedural established by the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

Momentum is clearly with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — bringing in the largest haul in the latest fundraising period even though he just jumped in the race.

According to numbers provided to NY1 from many of the top-tier mayoral candidates, Cuomo led fundraising in the last two-month period — from mid-January to mid-March. He brought in more than $1.5 million into his campaign in just 13 days.

U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko hosted a town hall at Schenectady High School on Monday, fielding a wide range of questions from the live audience with most involving Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration and cuts being made to the federal workforce.

“I will continue to fight this plan with every fiber of my being as it works its way through Congress,” Tonko said of President Donald Trump’s policies.

Several state lawmakers are making a last-ditch effort to give thousands of New Yorkers more time to register with the new company that will manage a $9 billion Medicaid program home care program at the end of the month.

Roughly 280,000 New Yorkers who use the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) and their caregivers must register with Public Partnerships LLC before April 1 — taking over for 600 smaller companies.

Sen. Charles Schumer abruptly postponed a tour to promote his new book Monday, canceling events this week in New York City, Baltimore and other cities.

The surprise announcement, which Schumer’s representatives blamed on “security reasons,” came amid the threat of protests and mounting backlash to his vote last week aimed at averting a government shutdown.

The "mothership" landed in Albany on Monday — the traditional kickoff of the budget negotiation process. Known more formally as the General Budget Conference Committee, the meeting has been billed in recent years as an exercise in transparency, but in reality the rest of the process outside of that 20 minutes of formality will take place almost entirely behind closed doors.

“Now that the [one-house budgets] have been passed, we’re ready to go to work,” state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters. “At some point, we’ll walk out holding hands.”

Mayor Eric Adams had no reaction on Monday in response to one of his closest allies endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for mayor.

“No reaction… Again, none of this is personal. She is one of my dearest friends," he said. “People are doing what they think is the best equation for them and we keep it moving.”

The Rockefeller Institute delivered its suggested overhaul of New York state's school funding formula in December. Since then, neither Gov. Kathy Hochul nor the two legislative houses have adopted more than a few of the think tank’s 32 recommendations.

According to attorney Michael Rebell, executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia, the few data points that have been updated in the executive and one-house budgets have harmed districts that serve the most vulnerable students.

Dozens of New York politicians joined the St. Patrick’s Day revelry on Monday, parading up Fifth Avenue to celebrate Irish history and culture.

“There was a time in New York City when there were signs in places that said, ‘Irish need not apply.’ So we always need to remember that,” former Democratic City Councilman Daniel Dromm told NY1.

A Syracuse nonprofit farm whose mission is to improve access to locally grown food is now trying to figure out new funding sources after the U.S. Department of Agriculture ended programs that provided millions of dollars in grants.

The Brady Farm, a six-acre farm on Syracuse’s south side, is in their 10th growing season. For the last two years, they received funding through the New York Foods for New York Families program. The program, funded through the USDA’s Local Foods Purchase assistance program, was cut, along with the federal Local Food for Schools program.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several planned events this week to promote his new book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.

The cancellations of events in Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and other cities came amid widespread criticism from the party’s liberal base over Schumer’s vote to move forward with Republican spending legislation last week. Risa Heller, a representative for Schumer’s book, said that the tour would be rescheduled “due to security concerns.”

Nearly 400 mayors and local officials from across New York sent a letter to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders asking the state to continue increasing funding for small governments as state budget negotiations take place in Albany, the New York state Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials (NYCOM) announced late last week.

Known as AIM, or aid and incentives for municipalities, cities and towns received a $50 million boost in unrestricted funding in last year’s budget following an aggressive campaign from local leaders, the first increase in 15 years. These state funds are used by small governments to pay for things like supplies and wages for police officers and firefighters.

Andrew Cuomo may be from Queens, but he now has the backing of Brooklyn in a major way.

Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn, head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, endorsed Cuomo for mayor of New York on Sunday during a rally in Downtown Brooklyn.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87.

Lowey's family, in a statement shared by the Westchester County Democratic Committee, said she died Saturday after battling metastatic breast cancer with the “same tenacity and strength that she fought throughout her 32-year career in Congress for women, children and families."

Sen. Chuck Schumer is facing a massive backlash from fellow Democrats after he refused to block Republican legislation to keep the government funded and avert a shutdown.

In the 24 hours after he announced he would vote to advance the legislation, progressive and centrist Democrats alike are voicing frustration, even anger, with the New Yorker. Some went so far as to accuse him of betrayal and rolling over for President Donald Trump.

The heads of state agencies charged with sealing about 5 million criminal records did not ask New York lawmakers to target additional funding in the upcoming budget to complete the task, and maintain they have the required resources to get it done by the mandated deadline.

A policy known as the Clean Slate Law makes 5 million criminal records in the state eligible to be sealed by Nov. 16, 2027.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an emergency executive order Monday barring state agencies from hiring individuals formerly employed by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision who participated in the recent strike, including both those who resigned or were fired.

The order also directed the Central Registry of Police and Peace Officers to revoke those individuals' Peace Officer Certification, and on a temporary basis, suspends laws that would allow counties and municipalities to hire them.

New York U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer had been quite boisterous all week regarding congressional Republicans’ plan to keep the government funded through September, which had squeezed through the House of Representatives almost exclusively on party lines. But that changed rather quickly.

In Schumer’s chamber, 10 Senate Democrats joined Republicans to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to pass the budget with a deadline of midnight on Saturday. On Wednesday, Schumer said the GOP didn’t have enough Democratic votes to advance the funding stopgap bill past a filibuster.

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party was fracturing Friday as a torrent of frustration and anger was unleashed at Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, who faced what they saw as an awful choice: shut the government down or consent to a Republican funding bill that allows President Donald Trump to continue slashing the federal government.

After Schumer announced Thursday that he would reluctantly support the bill, he bore the brunt of that anger, including a protest at his office, calls from progressives that he be primaried in 2028 and suggestions that the Democratic Party would soon be looking for new leaders.

The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the Ivy League school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies.

In a letter sent Thursday night, federal officials said the university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.”

The U.S. Department of Education says it's investigating 45 colleges and universities for what it calls Civil Rights Act violations through partnerships with a higher education nonprofit, including Cornell University and NYU.

In a department release Friday, the department claims the investigations follow "allegations that these institutions have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964) by partnering with 'The Ph.D. Project,' " a nonprofit that seeks to diversify college business schools by increasing the amount of Black, Hispanic and Native American doctorate recipients. The department's claim is that the nonprofit "limits eligibility based on the race of participants."

Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead protests at Columbia University last year, was detained by immigration authorities Saturday and is now in an immigration jail in Louisiana. The arrest of Khalil, along with the Trump administration’s plans to deport the 30-year-old graduate student, has sparked outrage from many high-ranking New York officials, with the notable exception of Mayor Eric Adams. NY1 political reporters Bobby Cuza, Kelly Mena and Ayana Harry weigh in on Mahmoud’s detainment and the response from local politicians.

After that, as the race for mayor heats up, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been racking up endorsements despite the united anti-Cuomo messages from his opponents. Many of the endorsements find him cutting significantly into sitting Mayor Eric Adams’ base. Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who also recently entered the race, may be the biggest challenger to the former governor. The "Off Topic" team looks at this very crowded primary, including where Eric Adams fits into the field.

After decisive rejection by the Legislature, the head of the state Office of Mental Health on Thursday defended Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal to ease the criteria for involuntary committment, which would increase New Yorkers hospitalized with a mental illness.

The Senate and Assembly did not include the proposal in each chamber's one-house spending plans released earlier this week — aligned to fight the governor's push to keep severely mentally ill patients in hospital care.

Power Malu with Artist, Athletes, Activists has helped greet thousands of asylum seekers to the city since the start of the migrant crisis.

He says migrants he works with live in fear of the possibility that a wartime act will be used to deport them without due process.

Out of power in Washington, and with their brand in the dumps, House Democrats say they see a silver lining after the first weeks of the second Trump administration.

“I think a number of people who voted for the current administration are having second thoughts,” Albany-area Congressman Paul Tonko said.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s border czar came to Albany to stand with Republican lawmakers and discuss the new federal administration’s immigration priorities as they ramp up deportations.

The visit sparked protests and anger from Democrats, including state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, who sponsors the New York for All Act. The senator joined Capital Tonight to discuss how the legislation would work.

Both houses of the New York state Legislature on Thursday voted to adopt their one-house budget proposals, their rebuttals to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive budget pitch that will fuel the negotiation process as Hochul and legislative leaders work to come up with a deal by April 1.

Democratic leaders have aggressively pushed an “affordability” agenda this year in the wake of November’s election in which they were widely seen as being out of touch with voters.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- National lobby and trade group American Beverage Licensees is holding its quarterly meeting in Washington, D.C. this week.

Member Mark O'Callaghan, the owner of Exit 9 Wine and Liquor Warehouse in Clifton Park, New York, said most of the conversation is about tariffs.

The Department of Justice has served subpoenas to at least three Manhattan shelters this week.

“The city can challenge a subpoena if there’s something wrong with it, and we expect them to defend themselves and stand up for New Yorkers,” Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society, said.

Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University.

The demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace wore red shirts reading “Jews say stop arming Israel” and held up banners as they chanted “Bring Mahmoud home now!" on the lower level of the Fifth Avenue building's public atrium.

The New York Farm Bureau, the industry’s main advocacy group, says they’re concerned about the impacts tariffs would have on farmers.

“Our policy at Farm Bureau is and has been that we oppose tariffs. I think there’s going to be impacts for sure. A lot of dairy cows are fed with canola (meal) that comes down from Canada, so that’ll be a tariff increase. We heard a few days ago that power is going up and electric costs are going to definitely impact our dairies and all of agriculture,” said David Fisher, president of the New York Farm Bureau.

The number of private sector jobs in New York increased by 14,500 or 0.2%, in January, according to preliminary seasonally adjusted figures released Thursday by the state Department of Labor.

These put the total number of private sector jobs in the state to 8,466,400 in January. The number of private sector jobs in the U.S. increased by 0.1% in the same period, the department said.

A state Supreme Court has ordered the New York State Department of Transportation to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement for Buffalo’s Kensington Expressway redevelopment plan. The project was officially put on hold last month.

The court ruled that the DOT did not perform a thorough environmental review, and until they do so, the project can't begin.

WASHINGTON — A Muslim civil rights group said President Donald Trump’s use of “Palestinian” to describe Jewish Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in an Oval Office meeting Wednesday is a racial slur.

Trump made the comment during a meeting with the taoiseach of Ireland, Micheál Martin, as the Senate considers a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government running and avert a possible shutdown at midnight Friday.

New York’s dairy farms — the largest segment of the state’s multibillion-dollar agriculture industry — are closely watching the exploding trade tensions between Canada and the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump’s tariff tit-for-tat could soon expand to a new target. The president is teasing potential new tariffs on Canadian dairy products, which could trigger retaliation by Canada.

The family of a man killed in the 2018 limousine crash in Schoharie is suing a shop used by the limousine company.

Attorneys for the estate of Michael Ukaj recently filed a proposed amendment to an ongoing lawsuit against limo company operator Nauman Hussain and Mavis Tire Supply, LLC in state supreme court. They allege mechanics at the Mavis in Saratoga Springs knew the limo's brake lines had issues for years before the Oct. 6, 2018 crash and failed to warn Hussain.

In office less than two months, President Donald Trump is sending economic shockwaves across the world — including New York City. From cutting the federal workforce to launching massive tariffs, Trump’s fiscal moves are already having an impact on Wall Street and the rest of the five boroughs. Greg David, an economics reporter from the news outlet The City, has been detailing how Trump’s measures could affect New York City residents.

David joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss the vulnerabilities of various federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, the potential effects of the stock market’s decline, what tariffs could mean for local businesses and the broader economic impact for the city’s post-pandemic recovery. They also examined the lack of clarity on economic policies among New York mayoral candidates.

The 22-day prison strike officially came to an end Monday when about 75% of correction officers across the state agreed to return to work.

About 2,000 officers did not accept the deal with the state and have been fired from their jobs, and barred from seeking jobs with the state in the future.

Several groups came together in Rochester on Wednesday to call for New York state to pass legislation protecting immigrants.

Organizations, including the New York Immigration Coalition, gathered in an effort to help pass the New York For All Act.

President Donald Trump’s so-called border czar, Tom Homan, was in Albany on Wednesday, backing a Republican-led effort to reverse New York’s immigration policies.

The visit comes as Gov. Kathy Hochul faces a lawsuit over the state’s driver’s license law by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

This week, the New York legislative houses released their budget proposals in the next stage of the state budgeting process.

Nathan Gusdorf, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, joined Capital Tonight on Wednesday to help make sense of the proposals and what they mean for the state’s fiscal future.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ontario, Canada briefly threatened to charge an extra 25% on power it sends to New York state, Michigan and Minnesota.

However, after the Trump administration responded by saying it would double tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Premier Doug Ford agreed to suspend the surcharge and plans to meet with the U.S. Commerce Secretary Thursday to discuss renegotiating the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement.

While not reminiscent of the battle over Foundation Aid that took place at this time last year, with the release of one-house budgets Tuesday, there is daylight when it comes to education policy and funding between Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal and that of legislative leaders.

When it comes to a cell phone ban in schools, Hochul is gearing up to push her bell-to-bell proposal across the finish line when the state budget is due April 1, with the backing of the powerful New York State United Teachers union and other education groups.

The Oneida County Board of Legislators on Wednesday approved a resolution allowing them to sue New York state in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive order that bars correction officers who were fired for striking from being hired by local municipalities unless they go through a specific program.

County Executive Anthony Picente said the legislature approved the resolution because lawmakers think the governor overstepped.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Following the end of a correction worker strike at various prisons across New York state that lasted 22 days, what’s next for the members of the National Guard who stepped in to fill the void?

They are staying put, for now, but the New York Army National Guardsmen and airmen on this mission are now going to get even more money for their efforts inside the state’s prison walls.

Getting what's needed from the U.S. health care system can be difficult, but it’s even more challenging for people living with traumatic brain injuries.

“One hundred-and-fifty-seven New Yorkers every day are sustaining a brain injury,” said Eileen Reardon of the Brain Injury Association of New York State.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Republicans do not have enough Democratic votes to advance the GOP funding stopgap bill approved Tuesday.

Schumer’s declaration raises the prospects of a government shutdown this weekend.

New York lawmakers have included a correction to the overtime tax credit in the budget proposals, which previously excluded some farms from receiving the credit, industry advocates said Wednesday.

Prior to the correction, the law, which mandates farmers pay overtime to workers after a decreasing number of hours, didn’t allow farms that operate through a management company or payroll company to receive the tax credit meant to help offset the increased costs.

Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana until at least next week following an initial court hearing in New York on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s plans to deport the Columbia University graduate student for his role in campus protests against Israel.

The brief hearing, which focused on thorny jurisdictional issues, drew hundreds of demonstrators to the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan to denounce the Saturday arrest of Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen. Khalil, 30, didn't attend — after initially being held in New Jersey, he was moved to an immigration detention center in Louisiana.

A federal bankruptcy judge's ruling on Wednesday allows several child sexual abuse suits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany to go to trial in state court, which attorneys hope will pave the way for settlements.

Judge Robert Littlefield Jr. of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of New York ruled eight cases against the Albany Diocese can advance to trial, reopening Child Victims Act cases that were sidelined by the diocese's filing for bankruptcy two years ago in March.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a felony, after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to terminate a pregnancy.

The woman's arraignment is part of a cross-state legal battle that involves what may be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, putting Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban in tension with New York’s shield laws.

Senator Chuck Schumer is criticizing reported cuts targeting the Watervliet Arsenal's workforce.

Schumer, in a statement Wednesday morning, said the rumored DOGE-recommended cuts to the Arsenal's workforce, reported by the Times Union, "would undermine Watervliet Arsenal’s production of the top-notch large-caliber cannon tubes, gun barrels, and other critical components for the U.S. Army."

Two of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s big proposals — a cellphone ban in schools and tax rebate checks for New Yorkers — may not survive state budget negotiations, which have now begun in earnest ahead of the April 1 deadline.

“What a radical concept, the thought that students should be paying attention to their teachers!” Hochul said on Tuesday in Albany, building off her successful crusade against social media targeting minors.

During Mayor Eric Adams’ weekly briefing with reporters Tuesday, he deferred to the federal government over concerns surrounding the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder from Columbia University.

“I’ve said it over and over again, that free speech is important and actually this country advocates for that, but when it comes down to the determination of the status of who stays in the country and who doesn’t, that’s the federal government,” he said.

With New York state on Monday declaring the illegal corrections officer strike over, lawmakers are still reacting as the state budget process moves into a phase many on the picket lines had hoped to use to their advantage.

While always highly unlikely, a top-line demand of those on strike was a legislative repeal or significant revision of the HALT Act, which limits solitary confinement and replaces elements of it with rehabilitative programming.

The legislative chambers on Tuesday released their one-house budget proposals in the latest advancement of the state budget process.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger joined Capital Tonight after the release to talk about what made it in as legislators prepare for negotiations with the governor.

The New York state Department of Health issued a cease-and-desist letter to certain fiscal intermediaries and licensed home care agencies after receiving complaints about the spread of false information.

The department said some of these groups provided deceptive information to people who use the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, in an effort to undermine the state's transition to a single fiscal intermediary.

From the day New York state Democrats passed the SAFE ACT — the law banning certain assault weapons and limiting magazine capacity — many Republicans have been vocal about their displeasure.

More than a decade later, it’s a battle that continues.

Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Tuesday that the correction worker strike at various prisons across the state that lasted 22 days has been a consuming affair.

State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel Martuscello said Monday evening more than 5,000 officers came back to work while termination letters have been sent to more than 2,000 workers, ending the strike.

Hundreds of correction officers and their families filled the halls of the state Supreme Court in Erie County on Tuesday for hearings on the state's Taylor Law in regards to the recent prison worker strike.

State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS ) officials, along with officials with the union that backs COs, were on hand for a contempt hearing.

Any worker who continued to participate in the wildcat strike at prisons across New York after Monday's agreement with the state will no longer be able to be hired at any state service job, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order putting the ban into effect.

The executive order also recommends these workers be removed from the Central Registry of Police and Peace Officers for cause. It means they would also be prevented from being hired as a police or peace officer in state and local jurisdictions.

Rochester mayoral candidate and city council member Mary Lupien had an exchange with Vice President J.D. Vance during the congressional cities conference in Washington D.C. on Monday.

Lupien interrupted Vance's speech after he spoke about immigration.

President Donald Trump warned Monday that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on campus demonstrations against Israel and the war in Gaza.

Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident who was a graduate student at Columbia until December, was detained Saturday by federal immigration agents in New York and flown to an immigration jail in Louisiana.

The New York state inspector general's office is calling for changes to be made to the state's body camera policy after the automatic video recall function was used to review footage during the investigation into the death of Robert Brooks after he was beaten at Marcy Correctional Facility.

Inspector General Lucy Lang wants the state Division of Criminal Justice Services to revise the 2015 guidance to reflect the technological advances. Lang's letter to the DCJS can be found here.

Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill could be doing more to push back against President Donald Trump, warns a historian who studies the rise of autocracy.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor at New York University and author of the book “Strongmen,” warns the United States is in a “democratic emergency” that is “getting worse every day.”

In a stunning fall from grace in August 2021, Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor.

Facing multiple sexual harassment allegations, the governor said he never meant to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

State Sen. Gustavo Rivera, chair of the Senate Health Committee, joined Capital Tonight Monday to outline his budget priorities and his concerns with potential cuts on the federal level.

The gantries have been collecting tolls for over two months. There is now the first real barometer of how new Yorkers feel about congestion pricing.

Siena College Research Institute pollster Steve Greenberg explained the question asked.

“The strike is over.”

That’s what New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel Martuscello said in an update Monday evening, 22 days after correction officers across the state walked off the job and four different agreements that attempted to bring them back to work.

A new mutual agreement has been reached to return New York's striking correction officers to work on Monday, according to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS).

According to a statement Saturday night from DOCCS, the agreement will take effect upon at least 85% of staff returning to work.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has a commanding lead in a hypothetical 2026 Democratic primary, according to a Siena College poll released Monday.

According to the poll, the governor has the backing of 46% of Democrats, far above support levels of 11% for Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado and 10% for Rep. Ritchie Torres. Neither has announced they are running for the office.

Several workers who lost their federal jobs as part of thousands of layoffs by the Department of Government Efficiency said Friday they did not expect to lose their employment after President Donald Trump took office.

The cuts, led by Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, are in attempts to reduce the nation's $2 trillion annual deficit, they say.

Amid political challenges on the state and federal level, Gov. Kathy Hochul is also trying to close a deal on her $252 billion spending package known as the state budget.

The April 1 deadline is fast approaching, and the Democratic-led state legislature is poised to release its own counterproposals.

After another busy week in Planet Albany, Ken Lovett, former Albany bureau chief for The New York Daily News and current partner at Ichor Strategies, breaks down the prison strike and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo jumping into the race for New York City mayor.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. -- Known for movies like "Wet Hot American Summer" and his standup, Michael Ian Black said he's always had an interest in comedy and politics but has never been a political comedian.

However, Black has become something of a progressive champion on social media, using platforms to advocate for issues important to him.

The aunt of a 22-year-year old Mid-State Correctional inmate who died last week and prison reform activists spoke Friday, days after Gov. Kathy Hochul said it appeared “extremely disturbing conduct” led to the man's death.

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) placed 15 individuals on leave in connection to the death of Messiah Nantwi.

One of the most urgent campaigns of this state budget cycle is one to end child poverty in New York state.

A diverse group of organizations sharing that mission converged on the state Capitol earlier this week urging lawmakers to help improve long-term outcomes for children and families from households experiencing economic hardship.

A former U.S. solicitor general brought in to help a federal judge decide whether to accept a Justice Department request to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams recommended Friday that the charges be dropped but that the government not be allowed to refile them at a later date.

Judge Dale E. Ho in Manhattan appointed Paul Clement, who was solicitor general under President George W. Bush, two weeks ago to present arguments on the government’s request.

Subway safety is on the right track, according to new statistics that show a drop in transit crime.

To mark one year since Gov. Kathy Hochul launched her subway safety plan, the state on Thursday released encouraging numbers.

New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel Martuscello said he is directly delivering contents of an agreement to striking correction officers across the state Thursday evening that would be applied if they return to work for their shift beginning Friday morning, bypassing the union that represents the workers.

Martuscello and state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray outlined the terms Thursday evening, which included:

The new acting commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said the agency will release draft regulations later this month for a cap-and-invest system that would generate revenue for green energy projects after Gov. Kathy Hochul delayed its implementation late last year.

Acting DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton, who assumed the role Tuesday after Hochul nominated her to the role last month, said the department will advance long-awaited details of the cap-and-trade system mandated by law, which will require companies to buy credits from the state to contribute to its greenhouse gas emissions and fund rebates to reduce utility costs for taxpayers.

Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday the appointment of four new deputy mayors, each charged with overseeing various swaths of city government.

Adolfo Carrión Jr. will serve as deputy mayor for housing, economic development and workforce; Suzanne Miles-Gustave as deputy mayor for health and human services; Jeffrey Roth as deputy mayor for operations; and Kaz Daughtry as deputy mayor for public safety.

A bill that would establish a statewide emergency and crisis response council for Daniel's Law has passed through the New York State Senate Mental Health Committee, according to state Sen. Samra Brouk's office.

The bill incorporates recommendations made by the Daniel’s Law Task Force Report. If it is passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, trauma-informed, peer-led crisis response teams would serve as first responders to emergency calls when someone is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.

Buffalo Congressman Tim Kennedy is calling on President Donald Trump to permanently rescind tariffs on Canada.

Rep. Kennedy said that Canada is our greatest ally and trading partner. He said that Trump's pausing of the tariffs is a positive step as Trump needs to avoid an all out trade-war.

Andrew Cuomo finally made it official: he’s running for mayor. The former governor jumped into the race and instantly became the frontrunner. A Quinnipiac poll found him with a double-digit lead over his closest rival – incumbent Eric Adams. Another new entrant, however, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, could shake things up a bit. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross, political reporter Bobby Cuza and statehouse reporter Bernadette Hogan discuss the very crowded race.

After that, New York’s sitting mayor, Eric Adams, was in Washington D.C. this week, testifying before the House on sanctuary city policies. His deal with the Justice Department also got scrutiny — and it came from fellow Democrats. Political director Bob Hardt joins the "Off topic" team to weigh in on Adams’ Capitol Hill grilling.

When he jumped into the 2013 primary race for city comptroller, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer caused a sensation.

The media was enthralled as Spitzer sought to rehabilitate his political career in the city, just a few years after a prostitution scandal forced him from office.