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Rodney King’s famous line “Can we all get along?” feels more relevant than ever today, underscoring our highly regrettable departure from civility toward a more belligerent and uneasy political reality.

But every ...Read more

Like most Americans, including White House reporters apparently, I've tuned out Donald Trump's incessant Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election — "by a lot." That means his nonsense about rigged voting and ...Read more

In simple terms, pediatricians save children, while Bobby Kennedy kills children. And so the dangerous quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now attacking the American Academy of Pediatrics, ...Read more

When companies started to push employees back to the office, many of us warned that mothers would be pushed out of the job market.

That prediction is becoming reality: The percentage of women in the workforce aged 25 to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Gov. Gavin Newsom's push to redraw California's congressional maps plays out at the state Capitol and on the national stage, a quieter but no less bloody scramble is simultaneously underway.

Newsom's ...Read more

Some six months after the Trump administration announced its first tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico, it’s starting to feel that policy may be starting to stabilize now that higher rates for most of the ...Read more

As any pooch owner knows, a dog will eat its own vomit.

Catholic theologians hundreds of years ago used this doggy behavior to illustrate how humans return to their sins time after time after time.

In America, ...Read more

The extraordinary pair of meetings in the past week -- the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday and Donald Trump's hosting of the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Finland, as well as the ...Read more

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health ...Read more

President Donald Trump this week threw his full support behind a massive project to turn a sacred Apache site outside Phoenix into one of the world’s largest copper mines, meeting with mining executives at the White ...Read more

There was a time when same-sex couples walking in downtown Orlando, Delray Beach, Mount Dora or even Key West would be afraid to hold hands. There was a time when many members of the LGBTQ+ community were careful to evade ...Read more

Besides spurring nationwide protests over police brutality, the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis also prompted a larger reckoning that included universities and scientists who contended with the histories and ...Read more

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a longtime House Democrat and senior member of the Ways and Means Committee with a progressive track record, will no longer run for reelection to his current seat if Texas Republicans’ redrawn ...Read more

Donald Trump is not quite the patrolman in chief, but he did meet Thursday with personnel implementing his law enforcement crackdown inside Washington, D.C.

In his showman’s fashion, he had suggested earlier in the day ...Read more

A splintered U.S. Supreme Court let the Trump administration at least temporarily cut off millions of dollars in medical research grants that government officials say don’t align with the president’s policies.

The ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Think of the valuable lessons we learned as children.

Be kind. Think of others. Share your toys. Treat others as you want to be treated. Show hospitality to those who visit your home.

Perhaps we'...Read more

President Trump said he’s planning to ride along Thursday night with troops patrolling Washington, D.C., as part of his federal crackdown.

“I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will get a firsthand look at his federal takeover of policing in the District of Columbia when he heads out on patrol Thursday evening with law enforcement and military personnel.

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BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore called out President Donald Trump by name Thursday, saying during a speech before the demolition of Pimlico Race Course that the president should keep Baltimore’s “name out of your mouth.�...Read more