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LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday that his office has protected more than $200 billion in federal funding for the state, defended core civil rights and removed military forces from Los ...Read more

The Trump administration has jettisoned the way thousands of immigrant children receive legal help. On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services ended the contract with the Acacia Center for Justice after nearly ...Read more

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has asked for a restraining order against embattled Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, who is facing separate allegations of domestic violence that are threatening to torpedo his ...Read more

That’s the problem with the Fifth Amendment: It tends to make you look guilty.

So I cringed a little the first two or three times Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his constitutional protection against self-incrimination when ...Read more

Every day, across Florida, people see things their government is doing that they find objectionable, even outrageous.

It could be a new site for a homeless shelter near their kids’ school. A law that puts new and ...Read more

American drinking habits are changing.

Nearly half of American adults say they don’t touch alcohol, according to a 2025 Gallup survey. At 54%, the share of the population that drinks has reached its lowest level since ...Read more

President Trump and members of his administration are (pick your metaphor) whistling past the graveyard, engaging in wishful thinking and/or deluding themselves into believing a demon can be transformed into an angel.

The...Read more

We’ve all got the same problem these days. No matter which news screen we are watching – or which news silo site our screen is tuned to – we are finding it is harder than ever to tell the trustworthy newsmakers from ...Read more

For more than 50 years, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has been a critical lifeline for millions of pregnant and postpartum women, infants and young children.

The federal...Read more

Most Americans don’t want a state-run economy. But increasingly, there’s not a political party that reflects this mainline view.

On the left, democratic socialism is gaining traction. Two-thirds of Democrats view ...Read more

Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire, told The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minto Beddoes in a recent interview that money won’t matter in 2036. He invoked a Star Trek-like future where robots and artificial ...Read more

When it comes to medicine, Washington, D.C., is not anti-AI. In a string of recent legislative announcements, the White House has made AI innovation a national priority. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (...Read more

President Donald Trump argued last month that Canada should pay damages — or face additional tariffs — for the wildfire smoke recently “poisoning” American air, and claimed that he strong-armed Canadian Prime ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today we’re talking about California’s Proposition 39, a bid to turn Trump’s election conspiracy fantasies into California law, and a proposal so disingenuous it’s caused Democratic ...Read more

The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different preferences, needs and resources, and they manage to come up with a price. The ...Read more

When I was a teenager, my cousin Anthony was killed by gun violence. He wasn’t the first family member that I lost to gun violence, or the last. These shootings devastated me in ways I did not understand at the time. I ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Donald Trump on Monday threw his weight behind state Sen. Rick Brattin’s campaign for Kansas City’s new gerrymandered congressional district on the eve of the Republican primary.

Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chuck Edwards faces potential censure by his House colleagues after the House Committee on Ethics found “substantial reason to believe” he “violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two territorial primary elections over the weekend saw Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett advance in her bid to become the next governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, while Guam Delegate James C. Moylan came ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The timeline is slipping for senators to strike a bipartisan deal on a short-term funding patch before their August recess as leadership struggles to work out the finer details.

Senior appropriators had ...Read more