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LOS ANGELES — Travelers around the country faced major disruptions Friday after the Trump administration ordered airlines to cut back on flights at the nation’s major airports to maintain safety as the longest ...Read more

"Put a little extra caramel on that latte," I told the young woman at Dunkin' Donuts. "If you know what I mean."

"Sure," she said, drizzling a little more caramel on the mountain of whipped cream that topped my decaf ...Read more

Airlines across the U.S. began canceling flights scheduled for the coming days, as the longest government shutdown in history snarls up air travel and forces thousands of passengers to change their travel plans.

With ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sandra Pleites has been looking forward to visiting her sister for months, trading in the crisp New Jersey weather for a sun-soaked trip with her kids to San Diego.

Once a year, one side of the family hops...Read more

When Nancy Pelosi first ran for Congress, she was one of 14 candidates, the front-runner and a target.

At the time, Pelosi was little known to San Francisco voters. But she was already a fixture in national politics. She...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry has donated $1.4 million to various charities to help people who have lost government food benefits.

With delays this month to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...Read more

Immigration enforcement operations should not be taking place in and around a day care center serving little kids.

That we need even to type that sentence in this 177-year-old newspaper boggles our collective mind. But ...Read more

By any metric, Tuesday’s elections were a blowout. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York City. The new Democratic governors in Virginia and New Jersey won with double-digit margins. Voter ...Read more

H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Hello, New York City.

On Tuesday, a handful of states held off-year elections, and ...Read more

“I hope this is going to be enough,” said the coordinator at Silver Lake Community Church food pantry, wiping her forehead as she chopped off bad ends of donated celery. Every Wednesday morning for the past year, I, ...Read more

The election Tuesday of the charismatic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York sucked up a lot of media oxygen. Most pundits and editors live there and always exaggerate its importance. But when it comes to political...Read more

The most indelible image from Donald Trump’s whirlwind trip to South Korea emerged when he was gifted a replica of a Silla-era gold crown by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

If relations between Seoul and the White...Read more

I have been a close observer of American policing for most of my life. During my 30-year career in law enforcement, I served as a patrol officer, detective, trainer, and from 1972 to 1993 the chief of police in Madison, ...Read more

President Donald Trump has long acknowledged that he doesn't read books, so perhaps he's never cracked the spine of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." But hasn't he seen one of the several movies? Does he really not...Read more

New York City just elected a mayor who promises free child care, free buses, city-run grocery stores and a rent freeze on rent-controlled apartments, all paid for by taxing rich people who are beating a hasty retreat from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats’ hopes of securing control of the Senate next year begin with defending a freshman from a Southern swing state that Donald Trump narrowly carried in 2024.

And Republican efforts to maintain ...Read more

Like many progressive Democrats, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has accused President Donald Trump and Republicans of posing a threat to the future of American democracy.

It was just 20 months ago that Garcia, during a...Read more

First, South Africans were the ones baffled by the bizarre sounds coming out of the White House. Now it’s Nigerians’ turn. And other Africans may be next.

Out of the blue, President Donald Trump claimed over the ...Read more

I think the Supreme Court will rule against President Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs. That said, it's just remarkable that the vote will not be 9-0.

Trump is claiming sweeping powers to impose (and rescind and ...Read more

Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by 52%-46% margins in 2024. Democrats ran significantly better in ...Read more