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It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and I don’t mean Christmas.

It’s the time when Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) releases its annual “Congressional Pig Book ...Read more

Using artificial intelligence to forecast the weather is getting so good – and so cheap – that meteorological services are starting to retire the expensive physics-based systems they have relied on. That’s a ...Read more

The government agency responsible for handling natural disasters is something of a disaster itself. The good news is that its prospects are marginally better today than they seemed just a few months ago. The bad news is ...Read more

Last week, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Noah Kahan revealed that in 2025, while on a trip to Joshua Tree, he was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder at age 28. This debilitating condition affects an ...Read more

Imagine you are sick with a serious medical condition. How would you feel if someone constantly told you to buy their product because it would cure you, but this “cure” is actually worse than other treatments, and the ...Read more

In last week’s mayoral debate, candidate Spencer Pratt said “super meth” was driving homelessness in Los Angeles.

After several years reporting and writing a book on this topic, I can say that Los Angeles, indeed ...Read more

President Donald Trump is wielding power in unprecedented ways to bring states to heel, marking a dark new chapter in the relationship between the federal government and the states.

Since taking office last year, Trump ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis was trying to spin the news that he might have to close Alligator Alcatraz, his fetid, jerry-built concentration camp in the Everglades.

“If we shut the lights out on it tomorrow,” he said, “we ...Read more

Out in the high desert city of Barstow stand three Del Tacos that bill themselves as better than their corporate cousins.

They're the last ones owned and operated by Ed Hackbarth, the founder of the Mexican fast food ...Read more

As a progressive economist, I wrote a paper in 2021 with a generally conservative colleague, Kevin Hassett, who now directs the National Economic Council in the Trump White House. We agreed then on the basic arithmetic of ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new diaper giveaway program is all wet. It is the latest example of Newsom addressing a costly California problem with a half-measure while claiming victory.

“This is what affordability looks like,...Read more

The Republican Party began this midterm election cycle as the heavy favorite to retain the Senate majority. That was still the case just 10 weeks ago, on the eve of the Iran war. Today, the prospect of the chamber’s ...Read more

The U.S. Constitution is not an a la carte menu. States can’t pick and choose the amendments and clauses they’ll abide by and those they won’t.

But this is Massachusetts, and our Legislature is trying to do an end ...Read more

For more than four decades, I have navigated life managing a chronic disease. This experience comes with countless appointments, trying new medicines and learning to be my own advocate in a health system that can feel ...Read more

When the war is not going well?

You assassinate more leaders.

They replace those leaders with equally bad/worse leaders?

You threaten to destroy the civilization!

That does not go over well.

Back down on that one.

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WASHINGTON — Federal efforts to accelerate nuclear energy development are starting to pay off, government and industry experts say, as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission works through mandated updates to licensing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Frustration over government shutdowns has led senators to consider what was once unthinkable: forfeiting their pay during a funding lapse.

In a rare show of bipartisanship, the Senate voted unanimously ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As some worry that an uproar over sexual misconduct in Congress will pass without meaningful change, House members announced a “bipartisan partnership” Wednesday.

The goal is to “identify reforms and ...Read more

Voters in The Bahamas have handed Prime Minister Philip Davis and his Progressive Liberal Party a historic second consecutive five-year term in office, while delivering crushing defeats to the country’s national security...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., addressed allegations Wednesday on social media that he offered a former girlfriend hush money to drop a complaint against one of his allies in Congress.

Massie, in a ...Read more