Higher costs, tougher enforcement, cratering prices and rampant criminal activity have eviscerated the once-booming medical marijuana market.

Brian Fitzpatrick, who won his seat in 2016, faces a serious Democratic challenger next year.

The “Big Beautiful Bill” proved that for Republicans, it’s MAGA or nothing.

Parent company caves to baseless suit by Donald Trump.

The former governor has lost support from key constituencies since losing the Democratic primary.

No, Zohran Mamdani, New York cannot run grocery stores better than private businesses do.

The former governor was on track to win the New York City mayoralty but focused on the past and struggled against Mamdani’s digital skills.

People in the Ukrainian capital spend their evenings clinging to the normal things of life—for as long as the air-raid sirens allow.

The meeting offered a glimpse into how the new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will operate — and how federal vaccine policy is beginning to reflect Kennedy’s personal views.

The New York City mayor is looking for redemption in November.

A Rhode Island animal rescue group is seeking a new home for a 20-year-old parrot with a vocabulary politely described as "rated R."

The 33-year-old Democratic Socialist lawmaker outpaced the ex-governor, who has conceded, in a stunning primary, signaling generational change in the Democratic Party.

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens.

The 33-year-old democratic socialist stands to seize one of the top political jobs in America.

The thought doesn’t come easy.

Learning from DC and other Downtowns

Why Andrew Cuomo is leading New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, in the eyes of POLITICO’s reporters.

A POLITICO analysis identified 794 planned clean electricity generation facilities — mostly in GOP districts — that could lose subsidies under the House bill. The Senate is debating changes.

The ex-mayor has emerged as the single-largest contributor to the group.

For decades, New York politics was defined by party machines, yes, but also a hyper-engaged voting public. Now, with the end of both, a candidate’s starpower is all that counts.

Drawing strength from my late dad’s fight against Russian tyranny as America plunges into autocracy

A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.

The boom in hemp drinks has sparked a wave of legislation while attracting businesses such as alcohol distributors who want to enter the nascent market.

The lawsuit is just the latest challenging the Trump administration's cuts to federal programs.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running for mayor, was taken into custody at a Manhattan federal building.

The notorious former county sheriff celebrated his 93rd birthday on Saturday. We went so you didn’t have to.

The onetime powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is now at Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

And the White House is ramping up its messaging on the reconciliation bill.

With Gov. Tim Walz on the Democratic presidential ticket, the state’s policies are drawing national scrutiny.

Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.

It’s easy to see how the charges against the Democratic congresswoman fall flat if they ever get to a jury.

It’s an unusual situation for the lieutenant governor, long viewed by GOP activists as a stalwart conservative responsible for driving the Legislature rightward.

Next year's Senate map leaves Democrats with few chances at flipping seats.