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California, like a careless heir who squanders a fortune, keeps menacing its top taxpayers. Unless lawmakers start showing some restraint, the state’s many economic strengths are likely to further erode.

An emblematic ...Read more

Gustavo Arellano: Chipotle just saw its worst year ever. It may not get any better

Before me was a lunch as big and hefty as a brick, wrapped in gold-colored foil that gleamed with the promise of a delicious meal.

What I...Read more

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has returned again and again to a familiar target: the military’s long-standing refrain that “our diversity is our strength.” Last week, at Bath Iron Works in Maine, he dismissed it ...Read more

We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those aliens have visited Earth — that rose to the surface earlier this ...Read more

The best lesson I learned during my formative years in journalism came from the editor at my first daily newspaper job, Doug Turner of the late Buffalo Courier-Express.

I had told him that the councilmen at the suburban ...Read more

What do a recent grad, a disenchanted employee, and a parent returning to the workforce all have in common?

They’re each trying to determine which skills are in demand and how they can convince employers that they are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to sue states for their artificial intelligence laws, but how the push is affecting work on future legislation depends on a state’s politics.

President Donald Trump issued ...Read more

Last weekend, Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference, where he delivered a speech that was both reassuring to the European dignitaries in the audience and nerve-...Read more

Every February, Black History Month provides an opportunity for us to remember the past and confront how history continues to shape our future. One place where the legacy of the past is hiding in plain sight is the ...Read more

“I think, therefore I am,” philosopher René Descartes famously said in 1637. To think means to be alive. Learning how to think is why students go to to school.

As a high school student and high school teacher in ...Read more

Democrats are on the verge of making affordability the defining and winning issue of the 2026 midterm election. The optics surrounding this failure of a Trump administration would be laughable if the consequences for ...Read more

A recent mass shooting at an ice rink in Rhode Island sent us on the hunt.

When someone commits a mass shooting, people of the most extreme political genders set out to find reasons why that would bolster their own ...Read more

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is directing federal agencies to release government documents that discuss extraterrestrial life and unexplained aerial phenomenon.

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Three years after massive crowds during the July 4 weekend caused three-hour traffic jams and gridlock stretching for miles at Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration has eliminated rules ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As a storyteller, I remember to begin with a tale.

In August 2005, I spoke to a group of retirees in their 70s and 80s. Those were whippersnappers compared to Julie, a 100-year-old woman who approached me. ...Read more

Massachusetts Congressmen Seth Moulton and Jim McGovern blasted President Trump on federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) during a press conference Thursday as Massachusetts has seen a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared victory in the fight over cost-of-living concerns, signaling a new approach that sought to deny problems with his economic agenda and touting successes in job growth and other...Read more

Florida lawmakers have approved renaming the Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport — a move expected to cost as much as $5.5 million.

The Florida Senate on Thursday approved...Read more

MIAMI — Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation became the legal owner this month of the downtown Miami land adjacent to the Freedom Tower where he plans to build his highrise legacy project, county property ...Read more