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In 2006, three days after a 14-year-old boy named José was shot and killed in front of his house, I rang his mother’s doorbell holding nothing but a handwritten condolence note from a city councilman.

I was 27, a ...Read more

In between patients at my oncology clinic, I couldn’t catch my breath. I asked my nurse to check my oxygen level and pulse. My chest felt heavy, as if something were pressing on it.

I sat in the same examination chair ...Read more

When the speaker of the Texas House recently outlined his priorities for the next legislative session, he mentioned tax relief, the development of data centers and a notion that sent many eyebrows skyward.

Dustin Burrows,...Read more

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s newest book, “Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry” is an easy read that packs a lot into its roughly 60 pages.

The tiny tome is the text of the closing lecture at the ...Read more

Amid all the alarming and unhinged comments of the president of the United States in recent days threatening Iran with genocide — remarks beyond even the usual cray-cray blather from Donald Trump — it was a statement ...Read more

Michael Gates is basing his run for California attorney general on his decade-long reign as Huntington Beach's top lawman.

When we met at a Starbucks a block away from City Hall, he rattled off his hometown's bona fides: ...Read more

It’s spring, which means kitten season—the time of year when shelters are inundated with calls from people who find tiny, defenseless kittens outdoors and want to help. Increasingly, the response they hear is not “...Read more

Americans’ fatigue is rising as costs climb, crises multiply, and leaders focus on spectacle instead of solutions. This exhaustion is not personal — it is political, weakening the Republic's guardrails.

Across party ...Read more

It’s often said a parent’s love can’t be measured, but a recent survey on youth sports may come close. For each day a child plays a sport, researchers found, parents expend three hours and 23 minutes in effort: ...Read more

When I was younger, it was pretty easy to believe that only white countries should have a nuclear bomb.

When you looked at the white countries, the guy (and it was always a guy) in charge wore a nice suit, and he'd been...Read more

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025?

The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will have wide latitude to keep his preferred pick leading the Justice Department after his firing of ally Pamela Bondi, including scenarios that could entirely avoid a Senate ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I don't remember seeing anything this wild on NBC's "The Apprentice."

The religious tyrants who lead Iran must have read President Donald Trump's 1987 bestselling book, "The Art of the Deal." The book ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democrats began their messaging campaign to hold President Donald Trump accountable for threatening to eliminate the “whole” Iranian civilization with a 10-second floor showdown Thursday.

“The ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison violated a law that requires members of Congress to disclose stock trades and other financial trades within 45 days of making them.

The violation was reported by the news outlet NOTUS, ...Read more

Like most Americans, we were relieved that President Donald Trump’s potentially cataclysmic pledge to kill off Iranian civilization Tuesday night did not proceed as the president’s unacceptably violent rhetoric had ...Read more

Given the charged and, at times, apocalyptic rhetoric coming from the White House in recent days — particularly President Donald Trump’s warning that a “whole civilization will die tonight” — absent a deal, the ...Read more

Stocks soared and oil prices cratered on Wednesday after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the ongoing conflict. But whether the fragile peace can hold for that long remains the looming question....Read more