1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

6+ day, 7+ min ago   (367+ words) A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms. KFF Health News first reported that…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (707+ words) California voters have become accustomed to voting down state ballot measures seeking to impose onerous rules on dialysis clinics that would put many out of business. Those measures – in 2018, 2020 and 2022 – were placed by a particularly cynical health workers union abusing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (607+ words) But hope is not strategy and it risks blinding Democrats to a harsh reality. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the current administration, the Democratic Party remains less favorable in voters’ eyes than the Republican Party. Criticizing Trump is not enough. To…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (564+ words) Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and loyal Republican who supported Donald Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns. But his enthusiasm for the president and his party is fading fast. “I’m pretty disenfranchised as a voter right…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (616+ words) In two months California voters will elect a governor, fill several other statewide offices and choose a new class of state legislators and members of Congress. The aspirants for those positions are making all sorts of promises to win voters…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (431+ words) By Lawrence S. Wittner Canada and the United States have frequently maintained that they have a special relationship, characterized by the world’s longest undefended international border, peaceful interaction, common values, and a close defense partnership through NATO. Nevertheless, the two nations…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (811+ words) We live in an age of amazing advancements in communication. Technology has given journalists the ability to report from anywhere in the world with a phone and cell signal. That is why it is so ironic that a war being…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (508+ words) SACRAMENTO— A $7.5 billion state bond that would fund scientific research at California universities could appear on the March 2028 ballot pending final approval from Gov. Gavin Newsom. Senate Bill 895, which would place the bond on the March 2028 ballot, was approved Monday…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (632+ words) Iran’s president said Tuesday his country is ready to return to the ceasefire deal reached with the United States in June if Washington does the same, in conciliatory remarks following the first exchange of fire between the two countries in…...