ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul’s last-minute push to crack down on public mask-wearing seems to be on the skids in the state legislature as she makes virtually no effort to publicly advocate for ...

Germany's conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz unveiled his party's coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats at a press conference on Wednesday, vowing to "move the ...

It's official: following elections at the end of February, Germany is set to get a new coalition government comprised of the conservative Union parties (CDU and CSU) and the centre-left Social ...

Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will reform and invest to ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Germany’s centrist parties announced on Wednesday that they had formally reached a coalition agreement to allow Friedrich Merz, a conservative ...

The deal caps weeks of haggling between chancellor-in-waiting Merz and the SPD after he topped elections in February but fell well short of a majority, with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Germany's conservatives under Friedrich Merz have reached a deal with the Social Democrats to govern Europe's biggest economy, five months after the previous government collapsed. Merz, 69, said ...

Friedrich Merz said the draft deal - with Germany's Social Democrats - aimed to create a strong government with courageous responses Germany's conservatives under Friedrich Merz have reached a ...

A view of Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing to change the governance structure of the center to give her office control of the board, according to ...

Germany holds one of the largest gold reserves in the world, approximately 1,236 tons of gold, valued at $115 billion, stored in the vaults of the U.S. Federal Reserve in New York. Given the ...