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President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Photo Credit: AP / Carolyn Kaster
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Long Island
Veterans back home forge bonds that endure
The phone call with his youngest son back home on Long Island shook Michael Wern. ...
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Nation
Supreme Court blocks abortion clinic law
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics ...
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Nation
Ocasio-Cortez, Markey roll out Green New Deal plan
Their plan aims to eliminate the U.S. carbon footprint by 2030.
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Nation
Fact check: Trump's State of the Union claims
President Trump laced his speech with puffed-up numbers and partial truths Tuesday as he hailed an "economic miracle," warned of human traffickers flooding across the border and appeared to place Afghanistan in the Middle East instead of where it is, Asia.
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Politics
1600: The brawl is coming from inside the House!
House of shrill rebuke President Donald Trump's complaints of "harassment" against him are doing nothing ...
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Nation
Judge to release info on FBI raid of Trump ex-lawyer
A judge confirmed in a court filing Thursday that federal prosecutors in New York have an ongoing investigation related to "campaign finance crimes" committed when President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid two women to stay silent about alleged affairs Trump.
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Nation
Va. looks to Black Caucus for cues in political turmoil
With Virginia's top three elected officials engulfed in scandal, fellow Democrats were rendered practically speechless, uncertain of how to thread their way through the racial and sexual allegations and the tangled political implications.
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Nation
13 quotes that stood out in Trump's State of the Union
Here are 13 quotes that stood out from President Donald Trump's second State of the Union address.
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Nation
Dems shift focus to tax returns, pushing for Trump's
The new Democratic-controlled House is looking at proposals to compel presidents and presidential candidates to make public years of their tax returns. But the burning question is what Democrats might do more immediately to get such files from President Donald Trump.
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Politics
1600: Trump now wants MORE legal immigrants
Explaining his policy reversal made a day earlier in the State of the Union address, the president said more foreign workers are needed amid a low U.S. unemployment rate, but he didn't provide details.
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Nation
Trump: Not ready to commit to Gateway funding
The president says he's "open-minded" about the rail connection project between New York and New Jersey and also expressed a willingness to discuss changing the State and Local Tax deduction.
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Obituaries
Pulitzer-winning Newsday journalist dies at 82
Patrick Sloyan won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the 1991 Persian Gulf War and was also was part of a Newsday team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island.