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The Fourth of July has come and gone, and for many families, summer has reached its sweet spot. The pools are open. The bikes are out. Library reading logs are filling up. School feels far away.

At least, that’s the ...Read more

Last year, we wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was done chasing criminals after we’d already handed them money. We said we were building something different — a ...Read more

A new study finds that Australia’s ban on social media accounts for kids under 16 has not curbed use among teens. The findings come as other nations are exploring age-based bans of their own. Has the social media train ...Read more

It often feels like the only predictable thing about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is that he’s unpredictable.

At a NATO summit on Wednesday, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It went ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an agency charged with helping states facilitate accurate elections, and the Republican member resigned, a ...Read more

So, Belgium is cool now? Scotland's cool? What next? Everyone starts trying to act Algerian?

Cool is supposed to be American territory. Vietnamese workers might be making sneakers at lightning speed for $1 a day, but ...Read more

It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable and, without resort to the usual rules or democratic procedure, designating ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have enacted new campaign contribution limits in Alaska ahead of the November election.

Lawmakers had narrowly passed the bill in the final ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- It's hunting season again.

That phrasing doesn't sound right. It suggests that the hunting stopped for a while, and now it has picked up again. The hunt never stopped. It just became quieter and less ...Read more

DENVER — Melat Kiros, who earned the Democratic nomination to run for the seat long occupied by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, may soon face a new opponent in the run-up to November.

Shimon Blau, a pain management physician ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — One of U.S. Rep. Cory Mills’ GOP opponents is seeking to oust the embattled Central Florida congressman from the primary ballot, arguing that he didn’t sign a key election document and that a judge ...Read more

American Bitcoin Corp. was built around a simple idea: that owning and mining Bitcoin would be enough to mint money.

Instead, the company co-founded by Eric Trump is mired in a deep downturn. As Bitcoin sank into a bear ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Democrat William Lawrence, who's running for one of Michigan's battleground seats in the U.S. House, labeled three prominent members of his party "warmongers" while speaking on a podcast days before the ...Read more

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Accusations of outsourcing, lying, losing, desperation and what one candidate described as "magic numbers" flew Wednesday night at a debate featuring the three men who hope to be the Republican ...Read more

BOSTON — The Department of Justice is sending election monitors to two Massachusetts cities this year for the September primary, with the Bay State among five other states where federal monitors will be observing voter ...Read more

MIAMI — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding Florida’s newly drawn 22nd District to its list of target seats in its effort to win back control of the U.S. House in November.

The DCCC is directing ...Read more

In the annals of Supreme Court decisions, the public likely remembers what justices wrote for the court in famous cases, such as the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools....Read more

The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history.

Preliminary data shows the murder rate fell nearly 20% from 2024, likely making it the lowest rate since reliable national data began to be ...Read more

The troubles Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing (he may have withdrawn by the time you read this) are only a small part of his party’s larger problem.

A week before the deadline to withdraw from ...Read more