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SAN DIEGO -- The Sleeping Giant is wide awake. He's fed up. He's furious. And, unfortunately for MAGA, he's wearing a sticker that reads: "I Voted."

The Nov. 3 election is still a few days away. But already, more than 40 million Americans have voted early. About half of those ballots were cast in person in states where polling places are open, ...Read more

Years ago, I bought a contraption designed to separate and concentrate the most volatile components of a liquid mixture. I would tell you what I did with it, but I don't want to implicate myself in a federal felony.

Since 1868, it has been illegal for Americans to locate a "distilled spirits plant" in "any dwelling place," an offense ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- In the 1980s, there was a famous ad campaign for Doritos starring a young stand-up comic named Jay Leno. The idea was that customers loved the crunchy tortilla chips so much that the supply could run out. The comedian assured us there was no need to worry. "Crunch all you want," Leno said. "We'll make more."

As a native ...Read more

On Halloween night in 1974, 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan became the first child in American history to die from intentionally poisoned Halloween candy.

After trick-or-treating in his Pasadena, Texas, neighborhood, he began to consume a Giant Pixy Stix that had been laced with potassium cyanide.

Timothy fell violently ill within moments and ...Read more

Although I always complained about the BCS era of college football, when the Coaches' Poll and the AP Poll rankings were used with computer algorithms that factored in strength of schedule and win-loss records to crown a national champion, I'm now beginning to think this 16-year period really captured what fans love about the regular season. ...Read more

Since 1871, a federal statute has authorized Americans to sue state and local officials for violating their constitutional rights. But since 1982, thanks to the court-invented doctrine of qualified immunity, such claims have been allowed only when they allege violations of "clearly established" law.

Because courts often require plaintiffs to ...Read more

Technology has enabled a new breed of bullying, and it’s nastier than ever.

Bullying transformation

In 1972, when I was 10, Franky Leper busted my handmade go-cart into pieces, then shoved me into the mud.

Leper was in his teens, then — a big, fat, man-sized kid — and I stood no chance.

But my older sister, Kris — then 5 feet tall ...Read more

There was a bit of good news at the end of September, when the Census Bureau released its 2025 poverty report. Last year, 34.5 million Americans lived in poverty, a rate of 10.2%. Although this was a historic low, the Census Bureau's supplemental poverty measure was slightly higher at 13.1%. The supplemental poverty measure includes refundable...Read more

Dear Lindsey,

Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you'd feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a rationalization?) that by truckling to Trump you could do...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- In the 2026 midterm elections, ICE is on the ballot. So it makes sense that -- in states where Republicans expect to take a beating -- the Trump administration has ramped up ICE enforcement to scare voters away from the ballot box.

A recent poll by the University of San Diego showed that 40% of Americans believe that ICE agents ...Read more

Back in 1983, the Supreme Court declared that "a person traveling in an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another." That increasingly doubtful proposition underpins a nationwide network of more than 144,000 AI-assisted cameras that track the travels of innocent ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The California governor's race was supposed to be about the cost of living. Instead, it became a group therapy session about the price of identity.

Here in my home state, with three weeks to go until the polls open on Nov. 3, we should be discussing inflation, gas prices, and the lack of affordable housing. Instead, we're ...Read more

At the beginning of October, my pastor held a special program that we called our version of "Octoberfest," spelling it differently from the traditional German folk Oktoberfest held in September. Oktoberfest activities in Columbus, Ohio, included live entertainment, kids' games and a paint-and-sip session. For our church festivities, we ...Read more

I got to my 89-year-old mother’s home just in the nick of time.

She’d been using her computer when her screen locked and a large image appeared:

“You’ve been compromised,” the red letters said. “Call Microsoft immediately at 800-xxx-xxxx!”

She was on the phone with the fake tech support agent when I arrived.

New era of AI scams...Read more

Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution presented evidence that he tucked white envelopes full ...Read more

After Tennessee unsuccessfully tried to execute Christa Pike last week, an ambulance whisked her to a Nashville hospital, where the condemned murderer became a patient in urgent need of lifesaving care. Should Pike recover from two botched administrations of pentobarbital, which left her unconscious and unable to breathe on her own, she might ...Read more