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Every Democrat sent to Washington will hurt the country

Polls are not like a weather forecast. We can't do anything about the weather. If the prediction is rain, the only thing to do is get ready for it. Polls measure public sentiment. But that sentiment can be influenced. Current polling seems to justify handwringing on the part of Republicans regarding the outlook for November. RealClear Polling's latest general congressional poll shows Democrats leading Republicans 47.9% to 40.3%. However, again, it's not the weather. We've got months. and this can be influenced. The overall sentiment in the country is not good. RealClear ...

Trump stuck in a box of his own making

Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don’t worry about running afoul of a headline or Truth Social post from the president because what is said about the situation is no longer very relevant to the reality. On April 8, Nick Catoggio, my Dispatch colleague, dubbed an earlier stoppage with Iran “Schrödinger’s ceasefire.” This was a reference to the famous thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who was trying to explain the weirdness of “superpositionality” in quantum physics. A cat in a box is both dead ...

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Brunson leads Knicks past Spurs in Game 1

SAN ANTONIO — The New York Knicks' winning streak lives on, and they struck first in the NBA Finals. Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, and the Knicks erased a 14-point second-half deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 105-95 in Game 1 of the finals on Wednesday night. OG Anunoby had 17 points for New York — which has won 12 consecutive playoff games, the seventh team to have such a streak in NBA history. And the Knicks, who finished on an 11-0 run, made a little more history. They became the first team to beat San Antonio ...

Sabalenka devastated after French Open loss

PARIS (AP) — After letting another big lead slip with an error-strewn performance at the French Open, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka felt like getting as far away from the courts as possible. "Just want to quit tennis right now," Sabalenka said after wasting a lead of a set and two breaks in a ...

Clarification

A sentence in Tuesday’s story on legislation that would limit ammunition purchases was incorrectly written. In an 89-45 vote on Thursday many Republicans voted against the A.7983, including Assemblymen Andrew Molitor, R-Westfield, and Joe Sempolinski, R-Canisteo. The current version (S.7236) was passed by a 49-11 vote. State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, was excused from the vote.