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SAN DIEGO -- Americans have finally arrived at the point where we can take a deep breath and tally up the good, the bad and the ugly of President Donald Trump II at the end of year one.

First, it is crazy to think that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When matching up the first year of Donald Trump’s second term with other presidencies, there really is no comparison.

Trump’s breakneck pace since returning to office does not draw clean parallels with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An unconstrained U.S. president has sided with Russia in its war of conquest in Europe, seized Venezuela’s dictator from his bed in an attempt to take control of that country’s oil, threatened military ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The California Republican Party on Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the redrawing of congressional boundaries authorized by Proposition 50.

The state GOP filing ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — President Donald J. Trump has commuted the five-year prison sentence of a real estate developer convicted two years ago of an elaborate fraud he and a partner used to acquire $50 million in mortgage ...Read more

President Donald Trump trashed European allies Tuesday and bared leaders’ private text messages as he continues to aggressively push for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.

In a series of odd posts, Trump mocked European ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Do licensed gun owners have a right to carry a loaded weapon into stores, restaurants and other private places that are open to the public?

California and Hawaii are among five states with new laws that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After tearing his achilles tendon in 2024 at a pickleball fundraiser, doctors told Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Latta he would need emergency surgery. Instead, he asked for a scooter, still making it to House ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready during oral arguments Tuesday to rule against a Hawaii law that bars gun possession on private property without the property owner’s consent, as most justices expressed ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick showed up in Miami federal court on Tuesday but again did not enter a plea to charges of stealing a $5 million overpayment of federal disaster relief funds to her ...Read more

Yesterday we honored the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump has removed MLK Jr.’s birthday from the National Park Service’s fee-free days and substituted his own birthday of June 14 as a fee-free day.

I write ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday over how far President Donald Trump can go in removing a member of the Federal Reserve Board, in a case that experts said puts on the line the stability ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — During his first term, President Donald Trump was both praised and condemned for being wildly unpredictable, pushing boundaries and disregarding long-standing norms in Washington.

During the 2024 ...Read more

There is nothing inherently wrong with President Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland. But threatening to seize the island through military force is ridiculous, counterproductive and anathema to America’s values.

U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump pitched his populist economic platform to autoworkers and supporters at a casino in battleground states in recent weeks. Now he’s targeting a different audience: the global elite gathered in the ...Read more

Step back and try to make sense of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and national security objectives when it comes to acquiring Greenland.

It's not easy.

If stopping Russia and China are the objectives for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hours before Speaker Mike Johnson became the first speaker in U.S. history to address the British Parliament, President Donald Trump was criticizing the United Kingdom’s planned ceding of overseas ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — People often ask me how things have changed at the state Capitol since I began covering news there many decades ago. My latest short answer: Look at the new California Senate leader.

In fact, look ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House aims to finish its work on fiscal 2026 appropriations bills this week, after releasing a four-bill package early Tuesday headlined by funding for the Pentagon and the Department of Health and Human...Read more