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Meghan Markel, the Duchess of Sussex, is telling close friends that — “if the Royal family wants Prince Harry working as a Senior Royal so bad” — Queen Elizabeth should have appointed him to serve as the Governor-General of Canada,

BY BILL HAMMOND Coronavirus infections are again rising in New York’s nursing homes, a sign that blanket testing, tight limits on visitors and other precautions have not fully isolated their acutely vulnerable residents from conditions in the outside world. Nursing

Following pushback to rumors late last week that Michelle Rhee is at the top of President-elect Joe Biden‘s shortlist to lead the Department of Education, the transition team is now quietly floating the idea of nominating the First-Lady-in-Waiting, Dr. Jill

The innermost circles of the American mafia are abuzz.  The Boss of the Philly mob — ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino — is taking a victory strut, hobnobbing around the highest echelons of old-time mafia folk, mostly in Florida, describing what may

Joe Biden, who claims the title of President-elect, is planning a sweeping ban on the online sale of firearms.  An advisor with the transition team tells The Chronicle that an executive order has already been prepared and will make it illegal

Michelle Rhee, who once led a series of sweeping reform efforts as the Chancellor of the District of Columbia’s public education system, is at the top of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden‘s shortlist to lead the Department of Education.  She would

Sources are telling The Chronicle that Senator Mitt Romney has been asked by the presumptive President-elect Joe Biden to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He is currently discussing the nomination with his family and is expected to

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is enduring criticism inside his caucus for a string of election losses under his leadership, is unlikely to gain a majority in the chamber this year. But that isn’t stopping the Brooklynite from advancing

Rep. Brian Higgins is planning to run for Speaker of the House of Representatives, challenging Nancy Pelosi‘s grasp of the party at a time when severe election losses leave her weak and barely able to hang on to control of

Sources close to former Vice President Joe Biden are telling The Chronicle that he has tapped Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve as Secretary of State in his administration. We are told Cuomo has agreed to the appointment, which they hope

A longtime election worker in Philadelphia is telling The Chronicle that three political operatives with close ties to Election Commissioner Omar Sabir have been given special access to sections of the Philadelphia Convention Center where more than 12% of all

The recently appointed Facebook oversight board tasked with deciding which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists and foreign nationals who will be functionally regulating the speech rights of American citizens in the United

A Kentucky-based political operative with longtime ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tells The Chronicle that McConnell is “very open to the idea” of California Senator Diane Feinstein joining the Republican caucus “particularly in an evenly divided chamber”. Feinstein

Stuck deep in a fiscal crisis that could force a 20% budget cut to restructure the City of Niagara Falls, Mayor Robert Restaino is unwilling to fund the construction of new canals and public spaces near Niagara Falls State Park.

BY BILL HAMMOND New York’s coronavirus infection rates have surged to their highest levels since May, pushing 10 counties – including Brooklyn, Rockland and Orange – above a threshold that the Cuomo administration uses to justify travel restrictions on other

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 65-year-old Donald M. Lewinski of West Seneca has been arraigned before West Seneca Town Justice Shannon E. Filbert on one count of Criminally Negligent Homicide, a Class “E” felony. It is

BY TOM FITTON China has for years sought to steal U.S. research, and the cost has been staggering. The Trump Administration has now taken action against this wholesale espionage, as our Corruption Chronicles blog reports. The U.S. government has finally issued an official

BY TOM FITTON We have now received 48 pages of emails among top Obama State Department officials and a U.S. Ambassador expressing skepticism about Christopher Steele‘s reports by Steele’s London-based private intelligence firm Orbis Business Intelligence. Steele was the author of the