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The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on New York's deal with its Indian tribes and casino gambling. June 16 Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hardball tactics with upstate New York's three Indian tribes paid off, culminating with Thursday's agreement for the Senecas to pay the state $135 million a year in revenues from ...

House revises abortion bill after rape controversy

House Republicans have modified a tough anti-abortion bill to include exceptions for rape and incest after the GOP sponsor of the legislation raised a firestorm by declaring that very few rapes result in pregnancies. The legislation, which challenges the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision on a woman's right ...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, meets with, from left, Neil Heslin, father of victim Jesse Lewis, Francine Wheeler, mother of victim Ben Wheeler, and Nelba Mawquez-Greene, mother of victim Ana Marquez-Greene, as Sandy Hook, Conn. Elementary School, families and friends of victims on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The group joined policymakers and advocates on Capitol Building for a day-long event to remember the 26 children and educators tragically murdered last December in Newtown, Conn.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bloomberg pressures donors over gun control votes

Six months after the Newtown school shooting, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is stepping up his gun control campaign by asking donors not to support Democratic senators who opposed a bill to expand background checks on gun buyers, while a mayors' group he co-founded is embarking on a national bus ...

GOP leader seeking answers regarding eavesdropping

The No. 2 Republican in the House says Congress is "perplexed" about government eavesdropping and wants more answers from the Obama administration. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says Congress enacted legislation authorizing broader information-gathering powers in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and it "was done in ...

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