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A New York judge heard a case Wednesday of two chimpanzees whose lawyer is arguing that they are being detained “unlawfully.” This is being championed by well-known ethicist Peter Singer, who argues that this case is “narrowing the gulf” between humans ...

Not even the dead are safe from gun confiscation, as police in Buffalo, New York, are trying to take legal handguns from heirs of recently deceased owners. Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derrenda told the press that his officers have started ...

Nearly 35,000 New York State residents have been stripped of their Second Amendment rights because they have been labeled “mentally unstable” – and several experts say the pool no doubt includes many people who are perfectly sane. There are now ...

The owners of a New York farm have been fined $13,000 by the state for refusing to host a gay wedding. The state’s division of human rights levied the fine against Liberty Ridge Farm after a lesbian couple was told ...

Washing your own car in your own driveway is now a crime in Garden City, New York. Two residents of the Long Island community learned about the strange ordinance the hard way when a police officer told them to stop. ...

If your county held a secession vote to separate from the rest of your state, would you support it? It may sound theoretical but it’s not, and there is a growing movement across America for rural counties to separate from ...

A village government on Long Island is using damage caused by Hurricane Sandy as a pretext for a flagrant assault on private property rights. The Whitney family is alleging that the Village of Saltaire, New York, has prevented them from ...

Gun companies are fleeing Colorado and New York and taking their jobs and tax revenue with them. Less than a year after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the SAFE Act into law, the great firearms exodus has begun. American ...

One of the strictest gun control laws in the nation decided an election for county sheriff in upstate New York, with a sheriff who is opposed to it winning. Political observers say that Timothy B. Howard was reelected sheriff of ...

A major Northeast railway power failure and the vandalism of a portion of the power grid in Arkansas illustrate once again the vulnerabilities of key pieces of America’s infrastructure. The second busiest railroad in the United States suffered a major ...