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Newsom’s death-row commutations spark DA revolt as prosecutors warn of legal fight

California district attorneys accuse Gavin Newsom of overriding juries and ignoring victims' families with his plan to commute all 548 death sentences in the state.

Republican state lawmakers reported Omar to the IRS in 2019

Years before Omar's latest federal probe, Minnesota Republicans flagged her controversial tax filings to the IRS, according to newly obtained correspondence.

California prosecutors slam Newsom’s death row commutations, accuse governor of putting ‘politics over people’

District attorneys and law enforcement unions blast Gov. Gavin Newsom's mass commutation of 548 death row sentences as a betrayal of victims' families.

House GOP erupts at Stephen Miller as Trump elevates him after midterm massacre: ‘Megalomaniac’

House Republicans expressed shock and anger after Trump promoted Stephen Miller to chief of staff following the GOP's historic midterm losses.

Democratic senator-elect calls Trump ‘unserious fool’ while defending combative political style

Abdul El-Sayed told Pod Save America that Democrats must treat Trump as an "unserious fool" and stop clinging to outdated political decorum.

The Pentagon’s Best Space Weapon Isn’t a Program — It’s a Prize

For the development of military capabilities in space, contests beat contracts.

The GOP’s Midterm Annihilation Comes Down to One Factor

It’s not a single policy, even if there is no gainsaying the significance of the Iran war and the tariffs.

The Equity Epidemic Is Hurting America’s Students

Seeking equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity is no way to build a strong education system.

The Man in the Empty Gray Suit

Xavier Becerra has built no institutions, advanced no distinctive governing philosophy, and left little bearing his signature. He’s California’s next governor.

‘Egregious’ family discounts

There’s a new scandal in the travel industry: Airlines are offering slight discounts to families and other groups that buy tickets together. “BREAKING: As if flight prices weren’t ugly enough, two major U.S. airlines are still charging solo passengers higher fares than groups of two or more,” reported travel writer Kyle Potter. “United & especially […]

A $34 million monument to California’s decline

At one point, it was the campus of a small charter high school serving hundreds of students, but as the number of school-age children in Los Angeles continued to decline, the school could never break even. Now the building sits empty, marred by holes punched in the walls, widespread water damage, and char marks from […]

How Trump can navigate the rest of his term with a Democratic Congress

The final countdown has officially begun. As President Donald Trump goes into his last two years as president, he is only one of six presidents to have entered his last two years following the ratification of the 22nd Amendment, and therefore constitutionally precluded from running again. Like Trump, every one of those predecessors experienced midterm […]

A gun-control group has plans for safe chatting with AI

Everytown for Gun Safety has spent more than a decade building itself into one of the country’s most influential gun-control organizations. Founded in 2014 through the merger of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, the organization has used political spending, litigation, research, and lobbying to advance stricter firearms laws. Its efforts have included […]

The diploma outvoted the paycheck

The poorest households in Tuesday’s electorate and the richest voted the same way. Families earning under $30,000 went Democratic by 59 to 39, and families earning over $300,000 went Democratic by 61 to 39. Between those two brackets lies everything politics is supposed to be about, and the poll found two points of daylight. It […]

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