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Myles Carter is a well-known Buffalo activist. He was surrounded yesterday at a news conference in Macedonia Missionary Baptist by people who say they need help they aren't getting enough help from the Buffalo5/14 Survivors Fund. That's why he's starting a gofundme page to help them.'

Governor Hochul spoke at the Institution yesterday about her long family ties to the landmark center for thought an the arts. Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin who speaks there today compared the intellectual intolerance of the assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie to Texas banning one of his books at removing them from the state's schools.

More than 3,500 people from Western New York and across the U.S. heard a mix of pastors, former Trump officials, Jan. 6 participants and vaccine skeptics make false claims about everything from the 2020 election to the COVID-19 pandemic during the far-right roadshow’s two-day stop at Batavia’s Cornerstone Church this past weekend.

The famed author, who was stabbed at Chautauqa Institution Friday, has recieved death threats for decades after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a bounty on his head

A a man confronted Rushdie on stage and began punching or stabbing him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. The 75-year-old author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was arrested.

A mix of religion, politics and conspiracy theories is what Western New Yorkers can likely expect during the tour’s stop at Cornerstone Church in Batavia Friday and Saturday.

"Ages" is the 10th site-specific production at Silo City for Torn Space Theater

For many in the LGBTQ community, the emergence of monkeypox is drawing parallels to another major public health crisis that was first dismissed as a “gay disease,” until heterosexuals began contracting it. Health experts say while the risk remains very low for most people, it’s unwise to dismiss monkeypox as an illness passed exclusively by homosexual contact, or exclusively by any sexual contact.

Finding home care aides for New Yorkers living with dementia may only get more difficult in the years to come. New York has the largest home care aide shortage in the nation, while the number of New Yorkers living with dementia will increase 12% over the next three years.

The Canadian government is temporarily banning the importation of restricted handguns pending more restrictive, permanent measures from parliament.