New York is at the top, or in second place, of various rankings of individual tax burdens. The Tax Foundation analyzed data from 2022 and found that New York had the highest tax b ...

It was the latest in a string of baseless claims trying to connect DeGeneres to crimes involving children. PolitiFact found no files in the Justice Department’s Epstein Library that show evidence ...

Savannah Guthrie’s husband Michael Feldman is a communications consultant and North American co-chairman of FGS Global, an international public relations firm. Justice Department files don’t mention ...

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One year after taking charge of the nation’s health department, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t held true to many of the promises he made while appealing to U.S.

President Donald Trump said his immigration enforcement operation led to a crime drop in Minneapolis. In a pre-Super Bowl interview, NBC’s Tom Llamas asked Trump about immigration enforcement weeks ...

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, whose congressional district stretches across much of Central New York, recently took credit for helping push forward a major semiconductor factory ...

On at least 10 occasions from Jan. 29 to Feb. 8, Trump has offered a version of this statement: "The crime rate now is the lowest it's been since 1900. That's 125 years." One of those occasions was ...

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, who helps lead the state’s version of the Make America Healthy Again movement, recently said the Healthy Florida First initiative tested popular bread brands, ...

In November 2025, the federal agency found, residential users in New York state paid average electricity prices of 26.49 cents per kilowatt hour in November 2025. The national rate that month was ...

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The varicella-zoster virus causes both chickenpox and shingles infections. Initially, the virus causes a chickenpox infection. If it reactivates later, shingles can develop. The chickenpox vaccine ...