NEW YORK – With the start of the release of hidden World Trade Center 9/11 documents held by New York City, we can begin to understand the critical questions of who knew what and when about the environmental health disaster released when the twin towers fell and the soaring plume of white dust rose, covering Downtown.

Mayor Mamdani and the ...Read more

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Pete Hegseth, it appears, would not have gotten along well. They almost certainly would have disagreed on one particular military matter — the editorial independence of the venerable Star and Stripes newspaper.

As the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and others have recounted in recent days, the latest ...Read more

The biggest long-term problem facing Nevada drivers isn’t what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. It’s California’s war on fossil fuels.

On Labor Day, the average price of gas in Nevada was almost $5 a gallon. According to AAA, that’s well above the previous Labor Day record of $3.82, set in 2012. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Aaron ...Read more

By now, dozens of journalists have taken a turn writing about the so-called “Hope Florida” scandal, a bizarre waltz in which $10 million meant to repay Medicaid overcharges was instead two-stepped through a quasi-state agency/charity affiliated with first lady Casey DeSantis, and then twirled through a back door where the cash was dumped ...Read more

President Donald Trump has renamed the lake formerly known as Ontario as Lake America. He’s also renamed the Gulf of Mexico and has posted about renaming the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait. He’s even mused aloud about renaming one or two oceans.

So what? What’s in a name?

This is just the sort of thing that comedian Bill Maher and ...Read more

Last Wednesday came and went as if it was an ordinary day. But the date held significance: It marked the one-year anniversary of Operation Southern Spear, the Trump administration’s military campaign against drug trafficking organizations based in Latin America.

That campaign, which includes airstrikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels on...Read more

In grasslands across the American West, four-legged fire prevention crews are busy at work, helping keep wildfire risk under control. These cattle, goats and sheep stomp down tall grasses as they munch their way through plants that could otherwise burn, lowering the risk of catastrophic fires.

When livestock are intentionally used for wildfire ...Read more

The far-right Alternative for Germany’s dramatic election win in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday is a watershed in the country’s postwar history. In a nation known in the modern era for stability, Germans in this small federal region have embraced populist, nationalist ideas in large numbers.

Whether this electoral censure ...Read more

It's a story that seems almost as old as time itself: business tycoons forced to make a public defense — whether before a jury or a congressional committee or in the court of public opinion — of products that made them billionaires but turned out to exert hidden harm on society.

They often betray their shock at being brought to public book ...Read more

Fifty years ago, in September 1976, my parents Rabbi Daniel and Esther Moscowitz moved to Chicago to establish the first Chabad Jewish outreach center in Illinois. Until his passing in 2014, my father served as the regional director of Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois, overseeing the development of what became the Chabad network of over 50 Jewish ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was unprecedented and stunning: California’s governor and top two legislative leaders negotiated a compromise on a big bill — and one house rebelled, refusing to bring it to a vote.

Not just any bill, but this year’s biggest in the state Legislature, dealing with catastrophic wildfires, arguably the state’s ...Read more

Last week, more alarming details were revealed about a recent safety incident involving the company OpenAI, and the unexpected actions taken by an artificial intelligence product it was testing.

I'll dive into those details in a minute, but the takeaway from inside the industry is basically this: Uh-oh.

Even many of those creating artificial ...Read more

Free and fair elections are foundational to our representative democracy. A government intended to reflect and honor the will of the people works only if the people can express their will. That's why we have elections.

But don't take the word of your friendly political columnist.

John Lewis, the late Georgia congressman and hero of the civil ...Read more

The president has called it an “arc.” Others, such as the rest of the English-speaking world, refer to it as an “arch.”

Whatever you choose to call Donald Trump’s latest vanity project, construction crews will soon break ground on the bigliest and most beautiful monument ever in the history of America, the Great Triumphal Arch.

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As we approach the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, it is important to reflect on the historic significance of that atrocity and on the lessons we have drawn and should draw from it.

The 20 years that followed al-Qaida’s massive attack on the United States were anything but typical in the history of international affairs. Indeed, until the ...Read more

Remember where you were 25 years ago, on Sept. 11? I was driving back from a nice day at the beach in France when I heard that 19 terrorists had hijacked jet planes and flown them into the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington.

For every generation, there’s a date people remember. For the “Greatest Generation,” it’...Read more

On the morning of Aug. 26, a catastrophic flash flood traveled around 60 miles along the Nepal-Tibet border region, destroying bridges, buildings and a border crossing. It swallowed entire villages and swept thousands of people along with it. Whole tour buses are still missing. More than 1,200 people have been confirmed dead, with thousands more...Read more

The number of homicides in Chicago was lower in June, July and August than in any year since 1965. As we mark the bittersweet end of summer over the holiday weekend, this is undeniably good news.

The Chicago Police Department recorded 122 homicides in those three months, down from 129 in the same period last year and a still-staggering 271 in ...Read more

On the night of the June primary, standing before cheering supporters at a downtown brewery, Nithya Raman was in a familiar position: Outspent by rivals. Mocked by online haters. Her political career left for dead.

In early returns for Los Angeles mayor, Raman was in third place behind incumbent Karen Bass and reality TV villain Spencer Pratt. ...Read more