ArticleHous­ing bill becomes law without Trump

WASHINGTON − A land­mark afford­able hous­ing bill became fed­eral law at mid­night July 11 without Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s sig­na­ture after he refused to sign the legis­la­tion in protest of Con­gress not passing an unre­lated bill to over­haul...

ArticleProud Boys case gets tossed

WASHINGTON — A fed­eral judge has dis­missed the rem­nants of the gov­ern­ment’s land­mark case against far-right Proud Boys mem­bers who were con­victed of sedi­tious con­spir­acy for plot­ting to attack the Cap­itol to keep Pres­id­ent Trump in the...

ArticleA Jac­queline Kennedy take on today’s White House

When former first lady Jac­queline Kennedy died in 1994, PBS rebroad­cast her fam­ous 1962 tour of the White House with CBS News reporter Charles Colling­wood. The pro­gram was cat­nip to a child who devoured Archi­tec­tural Digest the way other...

ArticleJack Latvala, former Flor­ida sen­ator and Repub­lican Tal­l­a­hassee power broker, dies at 74

ArticleTrump lauds eco­nomy as fact­ory jobs dis­ap­pear

Based on the words of Pres­id­ent Trump, Amer­ica is well on the way to becom­ing a “global super­power in man­u­fac­tur­ing” — indeed, as he declared in a Father’s Day social media post, we are already exper­i­en­cing the “BEST ECONOMY EVER.”...

ArticleWhite House sought to sidestep agency

WASHINGTON – The White House spent months look­ing for ways to bypass a fed­eral elec­tion agency and use emer­gency powers to force changes to vot­ing machines before Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump ous­ted its lead­ers on July 9, four people famil­iar with...

ArticleWhy Planned Par­ent­hood opposes tax

One of the head­scratch­ers in Cali­for­nia’s attempt to levy a one­time wealth tax is why Planned Par­ent­hood, which usu­ally links arms with other pro­gress­ive insti­tu­tions, is sid­ing with Cali­for­nia bil­lion­aires and Gov. Gavin New­som in...

ArticleAmer­ica cel­eb­rates 250 years of inde­pend­ence

Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump marked the United States’ 250th anniversary on July 4 with a cam­paign­style address on the National Mall, mix­ing pat­ri­otic appeals with polit­ical attacks. Delayed nearly two hours by thun­der­storms, the speech las­ted...