CATSKILL — Catskill Village Board of Trustees member Jaime Hyer-Mitchell will not seek reelection in the upcoming village elections March 18.

SEATTLE — Concerned about Democratic efforts to modify a Parents’ Bill of Rights passed less than a year ago in Olympia, the conservative millionaire behind Initiative 2081 announced a new effort Tuesday to protect the law’s original language. Let’s Go Washington, funded by hedge fund manager Brian Heywood, was the driving force behind the law commonly known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights. The ...

NEW YORK — Harlem Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs, a key ally to Mayor Eric Adams, is endorsing Andrew Cuomo’s 2025 campaign, a blow to the embattled incumbent. Gibbs, who was endorsed by Adams for his East Harlem-based seat in 2022 and has been a prominent booster of the mayor’s Albany agenda, announced his endorsement of Cuomo in a statement provided by the ex-governor’s campaign. “Andrew has always ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Tina Smith’s U.S. Senate seat wasn’t supposed to have drawn much fanfare heading into 2026. Reelections typically favor incumbents, and Republicans haven’t won statewide since 2006. Both parties had their sights set on U.S. Senate races in Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and elsewhere. But Smith’s retirement announcement unexpectedly put Minnesota on the political ...