LOS ANGELES — When federal prosecutors charged 28 California immigrants with illegally registering to vote, they invited friendly media outlets to document the early morning arrest of one suspect.

At a news conference in Los Angeles this week, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli intoned that the defendants' alleged crimes proved ...Read more

Kim Jong Un might be the world’s most in-demand leader. President Donald Trump wants to meet him during a visit to Asia next month. So, too, does South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. He stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a giant military parade in Beijing last year, and...Read more

It is a tragedy for Israelis and Palestinians alike that the state of Israel happens to be home to two extraordinarily charismatic populist politicians. The first is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The second is his national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir.

The word tragedy is cheapened by misuse, but in this case it fits — not only ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds the toughest job on the planet. And it just got tougher. Donald Trump has made a cottage industry out of offering Russian President Vladimir Putin strategic advantages in his assault on the people of Ukraine. Just recently, he lifted the sanctions on Russia that the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham ...Read more

No one interested in pondering what looks like an intractably difficult conflict need turn their attention to Iran or Israel. We have one much closer to home. It's the riddle of how to divide up the ever-dwindling supply of water from the Colorado River.

Seven Western states depend on that water impounded by Hoover Dam at Lake Mead, with ...Read more

Being far from the United States for a couple weeks, scanning news from home for just minutes daily over morning coffee, gave me a new appreciation for the metaphors about the clarifying view from 38,000 feet or seeing the forest and not just trees.

President Donald Trump is perhaps best viewed at such distance. If anything, the big picture is ...Read more

Shocker alert: A new study concludes that California’s latest soak-the-rich tax proposal could result in a loss of revenue. Hard to believe.

California voters in November will decide on Proposition 40, a supposed “one-time” 5 percent net worth on the assets of billionaires. The rest of the nation — including Nevada — should pay close ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi is, beyond doubt, a figure who will long endure, her name forever pressed into the pages of the nation’s history books.

She is the first — and, so far, only — woman to wield the gavel as speaker of the House. She was indispensable to passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Working ...Read more

While voters are rightly aggrieved over Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, they need to recognize that the president is ready to inflict an even greater foreign policy disaster on our country.

This week, the president openly aligned the American government with Russia against the democracies of Europe, including Ukraine.

Having dropped ...Read more

A state appeals court has expunged an entire critical grand jury report on Hope Florida, as if it never happened. The only person we can see celebrating this is Gov. Ron DeSantis, who claims complete vindication.

As politicians scramble to cover their tracks, this odious coverup gives voters another reason why a central figure in the mess, ...Read more

In the summer of 1957, Walt Disney spotted a monorail in Europe and decided he'd like to have one of his own. Design and construction began in 1958, and the following year, Disneyland had a monorail.

The LAX SkyLink people mover was approved by the L.A. City Council in 2018 and construction began in 2019, with a targeted completion date of 2023...Read more

President Donald Trump’s long-awaited 2026 October Surprises began erupting across our news screens in this past week. They sparked two very different types of outrage.

Trump’s War-and-Peace Outrage Surprises: In a bizarre and seemingly prohibited deal, Trump flip-flopped and agreed the U.S. would buy Russian diesel fuel – gifting ...Read more

You’ve likely heard the ominous what-if scenarios about election disruptions in November: immigration agents or federal troops roaming polling places, federal officials seizing ballots and voting machines, and President Donald Trump issuing an executive order postponing or canceling the election. Courts and legal experts have given solid ...Read more

After years of widening political polarization in the U.S., signs are accumulating that red states and blue states are heading toward a stalemate.

The rules of daily life now diverge across the states to the greatest extent since the fall of Jim Crow six decades ago, a prospect that carries unsettling implications for the nation’s fundamental...Read more

How do you get kids to stop spending so much time in the virtual world? It’s pretty obvious: Give them back the real one.

Kids desperately need free time, with each other, in person, in a place their parents let them go. That’s a pretty simple ask — it’s what you did after school, right? Hung out with friends? But right now it’s not ...Read more

Americans are frustrated with today’s high cost of living, especially fuel prices. Although incomes rose faster than prices last year, it’s been the opposite since February. The only good news is that this inflation will subside when overseas conflicts are resolved, but there is likely more pain to come for consumers until then.

The ...Read more

Every October, bats flutter through haunted houses, horror movies and Halloween decorations as symbols of darkness, danger and things that go bump in the night. Thanks to Dracula and generations of spooky stories, they’ve earned an undeserved reputation as tiny flying monsters.

The real bats flying overhead on crisp autumn evenings are among ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s affinity for his pal Vladimir Putin has now torpedoed new congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. How low will Trump stoop to aid Putin?

The trade restrictions that Trump lifted were named after Sen. Lindsey Graham, which passed with huge bipartisan support after Graham suddenly ...Read more

Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, divisions were so high across the country that CBS News reported on the effects political yard signs had on home sales. CBS wasn’t the only outlet covering that topic.

“You may not have bought that ‘Make America Great Again’ sign on your next-door neighbor’s lawn, but if you’re looking ...Read more

President Donald Trump was right to cancel plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan. Carrying out a lawful sentence should be a solemn responsibility, never a public spectacle. California Gov. Gavin Newsom should exercise restraint of his own by rejecting blanket commutation of the state’s death sentences.

As a ...Read more