How much does it cost to write your own law in California? About $500,000.

That’s what Forest Lawn and Mt. Sinai cemeteries have spent on lobbyists since 2025 to kill one road safety project, on one street, in Los Angeles. This week, in the final hours of the legislative session, Sacramento gave them their money’s worth.

Here’s what the ...Read more

In a genuinely surprising decision, the Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s congressionally unauthorized ballroom construction project. Over a dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, who was joined by the court’s three liberals, the court’s five conservatives said that the National Trust for Historic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Business is better than ever for Karla Navarrete. And she's not happy about it at all.

She's an immigration attorney who spends six days a week telling people that they have little chance of staying in Donald Trump's America.

"It's become a deportation mill, and my clients have been placed on speeding rockets," Navarrete, the ...Read more

The headlines this week wrote themselves: Meta, humbled at last, agrees to pay up to $17.1 billion and accept the strictest limits ever imposed on teenage social media use. A combined two-hour daily cap across Instagram and Facebook. A midnight-to-6 a.m. blackout. Age assurance. Attorneys general from 47 states, the District of Columbia, and ...Read more

The word seems to be out among federal immigration agents: Shoot a civilian, give an account contradicted by the evidence and retreat to a friendly red state, and you may escape prosecution.

That is what appears to be happening with Minnesota’s attempted prosecution of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro. Castro faces ...Read more

On Monday, West Chicago announced the city was reviewing its Flock camera system after discovering an officer may have been using it for “an unauthorized purpose.” Ditto Itasca, where an officer accused of misusing Flock is now out of a job.

Former Holiday Hills police Chief and Prairie Grove Officer William Copp allegedly used license ...Read more

The national debt isn’t just a big number. It’s a major anchor on economic growth.

On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that government bond yields are increasing throughout the globe. As these bond yields rise, government debt becomes more expensive. The yield on Japan’s 10-year bond hit 3 percent on Tuesday. That was a three-...Read more

If an industry’s track record included a tourist’s death, multiple hospitalizations, runaway animals crashing into traffic, damaged vehicles and workers collapsing and dying on the job, most people would question whether it should continue operating at all.

Yet horse-drawn carriage rides remain common in cities and tourist destinations ...Read more

If you’ve gone to the grocery store lately, you may have found yourself forced to have an uncomfortable conversation with your kids. Tabloid magazines lining checkout aisles across Chicagoland tend to be at eye-level for youngsters. So odds are they’ve come across the Lindsay Clancy story.

Clancy is the mother at the center of a trial that ...Read more

In August, we reached another grim milestone in the United States: Two deaths from measles were confirmed in Pennsylvania. These losses are a painful reminder that measles is still deadly and that the consequences of falling vaccination rates are measured in people’s lives. For pediatricians, the lives of our patients—children and babies—...Read more

For more than three decades, California and Texas have been like tectonic plates drifting in opposite directions.

California, the ancestral land of Republicans Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has become a Democratic stronghold. It’s been 20 years since a GOP candidate won statewide office.

Texas, which bred Democratic giants such as Sam ...Read more

Virtually everyone in their mid-30s or older remembers where they were when they heard that an airplane struck the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. I was in a hotel gym in Slovakia; it took two weeks to get home.

That was the goal of the terrorists: to destroy the ability of the American people to live their lives normally.

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Between the lines of Dana Nessel's baffling remarks to a group of Jewish voters over the weekend is her acknowledgment that Abdul El-Sayed presents a threat to Jews, both in this country and in Israel.

And yet she still suggested Jewish Democrats have an obligation to vote for him.

In the angst-ridden address to the Michigan Democratic Jewish ...Read more

Serving as a juror on a high profile case is a distinctly stressful experience. When that case becomes a national media event, as in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the need to preserve the jury’s anonymity is paramount.

The jurors in the Clancy case, who remain deadlocked and will return for a sixth day of deliberations Thursday, had that ...Read more

As a businessman, Donald Trump often cut corners, broke promises, and made bad deals. Now that he has the power of the U.S. government at his disposal, the submission of Republicans in Congress, and a pliant U.S. Supreme Court, the only difference is the scale of the abuse, corruption, and foolishness he brings to his ventures.

Late Friday, the...Read more

This is, without a doubt, the oddest midterm elections year of the many I've covered.

President Donald Trump has been acting throughout his term as if he were trying to turn voters against his party — and thus sacrifice Republican control of Congress — even as he's been taking steps, especially lately with mail ballots, to rig the election ...Read more

"Medicare for All," that fundamental reform of America's fractured healthcare system long championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other progressives, had its heyday about 10 years ago.

That's when Sanders and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., lined up 140 co-sponsors for a bill that, alas, died in committee, just like the version that Conyers ...Read more

How do we celebrate the life of Dolly Parton? She was such an iconic figure who transcended time, race, social class and gender. Her music will live on, influencing generations to come. Songs such as “Coat of Many Colors,” “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “Here You Come Again” have changed lives for the better and continue ...Read more

“But her emails.”

It’s a callback to a 2016 sticking point during that year’s presidential campaign that refers to the email security practices of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in her previous capacity as the secretary of state. The outcry drew outsized media scrutiny, given all that was at stake in the election and...Read more

The Transportation Security Administration is moving to a full-scale deployment of computed tomography scanning equipment at airport security checkpoints. These devices provide a three-dimensional image of the content of carry-on bags, as opposed to the two-dimensional image that the previous X-ray machines provided. That means that taking items...Read more