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Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is part of the collection of Supreme Court Bobbleheads at the Yale Law School. Scalia once said California...
The Brazilian Electoral Court upheld 2022 election results after President Jair Bolsonaro made unfounded allegations of fraud and sought to overturn...
A full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train at the Capitol in Sacramento. Cost overruns and delays have hindered the project. The good news:...
People use “democracy” to refer to our post-World War II liberal order, supposedly superior to all other systems, even though that order often...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2024 state budget resembles Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million deferred contract with the L.A. Dodgers. Shohei Ohtani is...
Waves crash into the windows of the Marine Room restaurant on Jan. 23 in the La Jolla area of San Diego. Forecasters need to expand their knowledge of...
Spring elections in California — like the one scheduled for March 5 — are called primaries but they really aren’t that at all. My fellow...
A warning greets visitors to Death Valley National Park in July. Climate change is making the world a place of extremes. Death Valley is already...
Senate candidate Steve Garvey tours the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Jan. 11. The former Dodgers star is the only Republican with a recognizable...
From left to right, Carson, Rippin Rosie and Charlie Surfs Up share a board during the World Dog Surfing Championships on Aug. 5, 2023, off Pacifica....
Arnold Schwarzenegger in “FUBAR.” Dear Arnold, In the new Netflix action series, “FUBAR,” you’re terrific as a retiring CIA agent pulled...
Dear Arnold, In Netflix’s new action series, “FUBAR,” you’re compelling as a retiring CIA agent pulled back into intelligence madness because...
Workers prepare ballot papers at the general elections logistics warehouse on Dec. 22 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Indonesia’s General Election...
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the California Republican Party convention on Sept. 29 in Anaheim. There are legal efforts in 28 states to...
Surrey, British Columbia, Sikh community leader and Khalistan referendum organizer Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle in June....
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the APEC Business Advisory Council meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 16. She could be a formidable...
Largo High School English teacher Jennifer Wilson protests book banning at a Pinellas County School Board meeting on Feb. 14 in Largo, Fla. ...
Not far from the Acropolis in Athens on a hill called the Pnyx, 92 people from 15 countries gathered to brainstorm about a new form of government, a...
Tourists walk past the Peace Wall in west Belfast in January. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement halted much of the violence of Northern Ireland’s...
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., greets Sen. Dianne Feinstein before a hearing in 2020. The death of Dianne Feinstein isn’t just...
Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher raised ticket prices, let the Coliseum fall apart and got rid of all players who would give the team any real...
Let’s censure the whole idea of censure. Because it’s consuming the precious time and money of California’s local governments. Censure is the...
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A virtual reality version of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland helped prosecute...
I was more than a little startled when Konrad Adenauer approached me in the Old Market. Sure, I was visiting Cologne, Germany, Adenauer’s hometown....
William Smith moved to Bend, Ore., in 1998 for an improved quality of life. The city’s population has more than doubled to 100,000 since 2000....
In this era of exodus, if you want to see the future of California, you have to leave the state. I got an unexpected glimpse of that future recently...