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Immigration reform -- one of the country's most contentious policy issues -- is rising to the top of the national agenda as proposed changes start to take shape in Congress .
The discussion will resonate on Long Island and other locales where population growth spurred by immigrants has fanned tensions over policing, housing and the unlawful employment of undocumented workers.
President Barack Obama announced Friday that he would install national-security official Denis McDonough as his new chief of staff, completing a shakeup of the West Wing staff that drew heavily on a close-knit circle of loyalists.
Only one Republican from New York or New Jersey defied the party leadership to vote against yesterday's bill to postpone the federal debt limit until May.
"My 'no' vote was different from all the other Republican 'no' votes," said Rep. Peter King, who until recently was considered a reliable ally of the House leadership.
Rep. Peter King seems to be everywhere these days.
A photograph of him snapping a photograph of Beyoncé during Monday's presidential inauguration made Tuesday's front page of the New York Post.
King (R-Seaford) got prime TV airtime when President Barack Obama shook his hand at the inauguration, only to double back and thank King for his help -- which
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama embedded a surprising call for progressive action in his appeal for unity and continuity in an inaugural address Monday that marked the start of his second term in the White House.
Washington’s power brokers were star struck yesterday — not by the president or first lady but by the entertainment world’s first couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
Fawning politicians scrambled for the their cellphones to snap photos of the sexy siren and her hip-hop-mogul hubby at President Obama’s inauguration.
It was as if Obama was playing second fiddle at his own party.
The Al Qaeda-linked terrorists who took hostages in Algeria reportedly demanded that we release the so-called blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, in return for the lives of the captured Americans. This is the latest turn in a story that began 20 years ago and that hits close to home.
Rep. Peter King said many of his fellow House Republicans made New York representatives feel like “third world beggars” in pushing for the $60.4 billion post Superstorm Sandy relief package.
WASHINGTON -- Federal legislation to limit gun violence proposed by President Barack Obama Wednesday will be enacted only if there's a popular groundswell pressuring Congress to act, several New York lawmakers said.
Three Americans are among the hostages seized by Islamic militants in Algeria on Wednesday, a U.S. official told the Daily News.
The U.S. is ready to “take all necessary and proper steps” to free the Americans and other hostages, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Italy.
Panetta said the early-morning raid on a BP gas facility was a terrorist act akin to 9/11.