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North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Schuylerville) missed a couple of votes in Congress this week. In an official letter, Stefanik said she couldn’t vote in person “due to the ongoing public health emergency.” But that was on Tuesday, the same day she attended a campaign fundraiser in person with former President Trump in Florida where most guests weren’t wearing masks.

The U.S. is also proposing U.N. sanctions in response to North Korea's six ballistic missile launches since September, each of which it says "were in violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

Attorney General Letitia James says her office uncovered evidence of financial irregularities at former President Donald Trump's business, and wants Trump and two of his adult children to testify.

Women's professional hockey is more than doubling the salary cap for each of its six teams to $750,000, adding two expansion franchises next season, increasing the season to 28 games and — the icing on the cake — shifting the league's 2022 All-Star Showcase from Toronto to Buffalo on Jan. 29.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Cortland, senior fellow at Data For Progress, who was present at Friday's meeting between disability rights advocates and CDC director Rochelle Walensky.

The beloved Red Sox player who helped put an end to the "Curse of the Bambino" was voted into the elite group in his first year on the ballot. Bonds and Clemens fell short in their final year.

Gov. Kathy Hochul convened a first-in-the-nation Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns Wednesday, bringing together representatives from nine states to drill down on New York’s recent rise in gun violence. The task force will include law enforcement leaders from New York, Rhodie Island, Vermont, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

Avah Lamie, 11, says this is a stressful time to be a kid. Rates of anxiety and depression among children and youth were on the rise even before COVID, but the past two years have made things worse.

Payments are increasingly being made digitally, using apps like Apple Pay and Venmo. Now, the U.S.government is considering whether to issue its own digital dollar.

Long-time adversaries Turkey and Armenia are talking about opening their border to more trade and travel. But it doesn't look like all the issues of the past will be dealt with yet.