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An appeal seeking new congressional boundaries is quietly wending through state courts

It's now a virtual certainty Republicans will clinch the U.S. House majority ... by five -- which just happens to be the exact number of seats the GOP recently netted in New York. How about that?

No third party gubernatorial candidate qualified for NY ballot access, the first time since 1946. Libertarian Larry Sharpe makes final court appeal on Friday.

The state of New York has to pay the redistricting "special master" and his team more...

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may be planning to jump back into the political fray by mounting a bid for U.S. Congress

The lines drawn by a court-appointed special master would increase competition for seats in Congress, in a blow to national Democrats.

The lines drawn by a court-appointed special master would increase competition for seats in Congress, in a blow to national Democrats.

Representative Tom Reed is resigning, Representative Antonio Delgado is taking a new job, and New York’s redistricting process is up in the air, muddying the election schedule.

U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe in Albany dispelled any questions about this year’s congressional primary by setting the date for Aug. 23, rejecting a lawsuit contending the date would

A judge in Albany allowed the state to delay the congressional primary, a move that all but ends Democrats’ hope of retaining House districts maps that had been declared unconstitutional.