California's burning and its political foes are practically dancing in the flames and reveling in the ashes.

From the mountains to the sea, the wreckage and ruin are biblical in size, scope and wall-to-wall destruction.

At least 10 people are dead. Thousands of structures have been laid to waste. Roughly 150,000 people have fled for their ...Read more

The destructive winds and devastating fires that are sweeping through the Los Angeles area this week drove many, understandably, to their phones seeking information — and seeking to help.

Downloads of apps like Watch Duty soared as Angelenos anxiously searched for information about evacuation boundaries, evacuation sites and the fate of their...Read more

Indians have long been proud of what they see as their outperformance in the information technology sector. Companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. dominate IT-enabled services, bringing home billions of dollars in profits. U.S. technology giants including Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp., and International Business ...Read more

I should have known better than to turn on the television.

For the second time in 15 years, my family and I had fled our foothills home. During 2009's Station fire, we were given evacuation notice only when clouds of smoke filled the streets and flames were clearly visible on nearby mountainsides.

This time we left as soon as our phones buzzed...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — OK, I admit it. I'm biased. I hate it when an opportunistic politician capitalizes on other people's miseries and tries to score political points.

I'm especially biased when it's a president-elect who shoots off his mouth without regard for facts and blames a governor for fire hydrants running dry.

Not that Democrat ...Read more

Is anyone surprised that even as the Los Angeles region's fires rage and before funeral arrangements have been made, there's been an outbreak of politics and second-guessing?

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has been ripped by some critics for being out of the country when the killer fires began.

President-elect Donald Trump has blamed California Gov. ...Read more

As California was literally on fire, our next president was erroneously blaming us for our disaster. We had wrongly denied Southern California water. “Beautiful, clean, fresh” water. Without water, the Southland was left to burn.

“Governor Gavin Newscum,” as Donald Trump calls him, “is the blame for this.”

First, the facts: ...Read more

The Donald Trump honeymoon is over before it even got started because Democrats and the media are determined to trip him up and fan the flames of dissent.

The minority party’s strategy is to tie Trump up in court, file lawsuits and fabricate a narrative of chaos, similar to what they did in Trump’s first term and after he left office.

Any ...Read more

Recent Supreme Court rulings protecting Americans from bureaucratic excesses are now bearing fruit. Last week, a federal appeals court put an end to the stale “net neutrality” debate by ruling that the FCC exceeded its power by attempting to regulate internet providers as utilities under a law dating back to the Depression.

In the opinion, ...Read more

South Korea’s prolonged political crisis appears to have no end in sight. It’s just over a month since President Yoon Suk Yeol declared, then lifted, martial law and since then, the domestic and regional challenges have been multiplying. To manage the chaos, citizens need to set aside their differences and find a way out of the impasse. That...Read more

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who famously test-flew a Boeing Starliner spaceship to the International Space Station, and who have been stuck on board since their arrival June 6 — are making the best of their time there. They have helped out with experiments, iced Christmas cookies in microgravity and worked out three hours a ...Read more

Time to focus, Mr. President-elect.

The stream-of-consciousness flow of ideas and promises that marked Donald Trump’s presidential campaign must now give way to deliberate, well-thought-out policymaking.

But Trump’s press conference Tuesday, his second since the election, suggests he hasn’t made the pivot from candidate to chief ...Read more

Just five months after giving birth to our third (and final) child in 2015, my wife experienced something odd: Her smile became crooked.

Appearance didn’t matter, of course. This was just different enough to be noticeable and concerning, like that new mole you should probably have checked out.

Over the next few months, well-meaning doctors ...Read more

In mid-December, on the same day that he granted clemency to 1,500 Americans, President Joe Biden issued pardons to 15 of the nation’s military veterans. These pardon recipients were mainly former officers and non-commissioned officers, aged 46 to 79, with honorable discharges and military decorations. Before or after leaving the armed forces,...Read more

California is about to ease into the 2026 race for governor, and if you can pick any of the current candidates from a police lineup, either you work in Sacramento, have an unhealthy obsession with state politics, or both.

That's not to impute criminality on the part of any of those running to succeed the term-limited Gavin Newsom. (Not that a ...Read more

The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump inauguration comes as no surprise. Trump and major social media platforms have been warring for years over perceived anti-conservative bias, including ...Read more

Chicago traffic rivals New York City for worst in the nation. A report from Inrix consultants released on Jan. 5 shows Chicago commuters spend a whopping 102 hours a year in traffic. For comparison’s sake, commuters in Los Angeles rack up 88 hours, with Bostonians losing 79 hours per year to traffic congestion. Globally, only Istanbul has ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is correct in stalling the decision to ban TikTok from appearing before the Supreme Court. This delay reinforces the position of diplomacy or peace through strategy. Previously scheduled to appear before the Supreme Court on January 19, the day before the presidential inauguration, Trump is trying to push a pause.

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If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent’s heart. Babies can wind up hospitalized or even die from the bacterial infection.

That’s why the recent surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, should serve as a warning that we need ...Read more

Since his election, President-elect Donald Trump has outlined targeted tariff proposals aimed at addressing pressing international issues. The most successful relates to Canada and Mexico’s responsibility for illegal immigration. Increasingly, targeted tariffs are being used as sanctions in areas well beyond trade policy.

Trump is already ...Read more