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WASHINGTON — In a purple-tinged swath of Southern California, Republican Rep. Young Kim has repeatedly vanquished a string of Democratic challengers by trying to steer clear of her party’s hard line.

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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to reorganize what he called a “bloated” State Department, vowing Tuesday to cut programs and close offices but stopping short of a proposed executive order...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday said he and President Donald Trump "agreed to stay in touch" at the end of a phone call in which Shapiro filled in the president on details of the April 13 arson attack on ...Read more

The death of Pope Francis silences a powerful — and increasingly solitary — voice for peace, equality, and disenfranchised people in the face of a growing threat from authoritarianism and climate change.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded ready on Tuesday to give parents a constitutional right to opt out of public school lessons for their children that offend their religious beliefs.

At issue are new "LGBTQ...Read more

A symbolic turning point for U.S. climate policy, and by extension the world, happened when President Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels that his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, had installed at the White House, signaling a...Read more

Amid a world with growing rancor and discord and hate and war, we have lost a needed voice for peace and human compassion with the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, leaving behind a church marked by the imprint of ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom made headlines Friday for his comments about wrongfully deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, when he was trying to make news about tariffs.

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What happens when politicians post false or toxic messages online? My team and I found evidence that suggests U.S. state legislators can increase or decrease their public visibility by sharing unverified claims or using...Read more

Last year was a record year for disasters in the United States. A new report from the British charity International Institute for Environment and Development finds that 90 disasters were declared nationwide in 2024, ...Read more

More than five months after President Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, Democrats are still trying to understand why they lost the election and the Senate majority – and how the party can regroup.

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In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been lawful in the United States from ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance pushed for stronger ties between the U.S. and India across a range of areas from energy to defense, in remarks delivered during a four-day trip to the South Asian country that brought the two ...Read more

A flurry of recent federal court rulings have stalled, for the moment, the Trump administration’s efforts to deport as many as one million undocumented migrants this year, as judges increasingly determine that ...Read more

Across 12 eventful years, the reign of Pope Francis saw no shortage of resonant images. One thinks of him standing all alone in St. Peter’s Square, in the darkest days of COVID, offering prayers for the world. Or ...Read more

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative.

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency wants more power and more data. DOGE has attempted to defy a court order to access Social Security data. It has forced or tried to force access to IRS data systems, ...Read more