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LOS ANGELES — The organizers of the wildfire relief organization FireAid have retained a law firm to review its grantmaking process. The move follows misleading criticism from President Donald Trump and right-wing ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday applied tariffs to low-value imports from all trading partners, a change that could raise costs for American travelers bringing goods into the U.S. after travels abroad.

The move, ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday pared down an attempt to convert a wide swath of the State Board of Elections nonpartisan civil service staff into political appointees — advancing an amended ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war.

Trump has expressed increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalating ...Read more

The 2028 presidential election is three years and countless news cycles away. But, voters already have clear preferences for several hopefuls, according to new polling.

The latest Emerson College survey created ...Read more

An Israeli soldier would position his leg against the wall in the narrow corridor to our school, then order us: “Pass under my leg, or no school.”

That was a recurring event for us children during the early 1990s in ...Read more

Edward Zakrzewski II, 60, has spent nearly half of his life on Death Row, where next Thursday he is to be the ninth person executed in 2025, a modern one-year Florida record.

Only Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the death ...Read more

As the world rightly remains focused on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine and the humanitarian abomination that is Gaza, South Korea’s new president is trying to shake up the status quo on the Korean Peninsula, one of ...Read more

Donald Trump is hardly the first president to pressure the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates or take some other action the White House deems necessary to boost the economy and shield the commander-in-chief from the ...Read more

Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered ...Read more

California has the highest residential electricity rates in the continental United States. The reason is exactly what you’d expect.

In May, residential customers in California paid an average of 35.03 cents per kilowatt...Read more

The latest national report on students who left college without earning a degree contains some sobering data: Approximately 2.1 million students stopped higher education between January 2022 and July 2023, swelling the “...Read more

It began this year with a Texas Democrat: Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston who had joined the House at the age of 70. He died two months into his freshman term.

That was quickly followed by the deaths of two ...Read more

This hasn’t been a good year for congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding it had previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting. That quiet move ...Read more

As President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development and director of the Office of Head Start during his first term, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of his leadership. His ...Read more

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s controversial former personal attorney to a lifetime federal appeals court post Tuesday on a narrow party-line vote.

Emil Bove, who has served as a Justice Department ...Read more

Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official and former personal attorney for President Donald Trump, was approved along party lines Tuesday night for a lifetime seat as a federal appeals judge in Philadelphia, capping a ...Read more

The Trump administration is considering halting all wind development on federal lands and in federal waters as the president expands his campaign against the renewable energy source he’s long criticized.

Interior ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz has called special elections in two Senate districts left vacant this month after the burglary conviction of Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, and the death of Sen. Bruce Anderson, R-Buffalo.

Elections to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Crafting a column can be an unpredictable endeavor. That is especially true when you're writing about politics.

Like most human beings, elected officials can be awfully complicated.

Take California Gov. ...Read more