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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world...

Detransitioners reveal how doctors pushed them toward life-altering treatment as teens

Three detransitioners say doctors pushed puberty blockers, testosterone and double mastectomy on them as teens without adequate mental health screening.

What Palisades mall reopening means to me: ‘We are coming back, baby!’

Over 18 months have passed since the Palisades fire destroyed our town. Twelve of...

Replace failed homeless agency — and failed ‘housing first’ policy

A federal judge may have forced the Trump administration to keep funding the LA...

The looming emergency that should make us build more water infrastructure

California faces potential water shortages if the states that use the Colorado River can’t...

The Blanche appointment is another Trump win that’s America’s loss

He will serve only Donald Trump, not our precious rule of law. 

Indonesia and India are jointly planning a hydrocarbon-powered future

Hydrocarbons are still the future of energy.

Perseid meteor shower: When is the best time to watch the summer light show?

The Perseid summer light show is back — and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere.

The Movement: A $20 burrito and a fight over affordability

A personal note to readers from Emily Brooks: I have welcomed my second child! I’ll be out on maternity leave for the next few months, and Helen, our Senate reporter, will take over writing of The Movement in the meantime. Please continue to share your insights, events, scoops and announcements with her. I look forward...

Trump secretly departed Turkey on third plane: Report

President Trump secretly departed the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, last month using an alternate military aircraft amid security concerns involving Iran. Trump boarded the old Air Force One jet before he was secretly shuttled to a smaller Air Force C-32A plane while inside a catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies...

Trump, threatened by Iran, used ruse to fly home from Turkey on jet

In today's issue: ▪ Republicans to choose Graham replacement ▪ Trump rolls back vaccine guidance ▪ Blanche sworn in as attorney general ▪ Record heat in contiguous U.S. President Trump engaged in an elaborate ruse last month as he faced a threat against his life from Iran, leaving a summit in Turkey via military jet while making...

Hacks by runaway AI are foreseeable. We’re letting them happen.

There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d escape and turn us off instead.

Before more E15 reaches the pump, boaters deserve a real warning

At a minimum, we need clear, highly visible pump labels with standardized language that says plainly: "E15 is not for boats."

American Medical Association criticizes Trump executive order on childhood vaccine schedule

The president of the American Medical Association on Monday said President Trump’s new recommendations on childhood immunizations put “children’s health at risk,” joining the chorus of medical experts criticizing the executive order. “Vaccines are among the most thoroughly studied, effective tools we have to protect children from serious vaccine-preventable diseases,” Dr. Willie Underwood III said...

Judge deals blow to Mamdani plan to tax second homes

A judge in Staten Island, N.Y., temporarily blocked New York City Zohran Mamdani’s (D) rollout of a new tax on second homes worth more than $5 million, according to multiple reports. The ruling from Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, required the city to take down a public list of 900,000-plus...

North Carolina Republicans pick ballot replacement for Rep. Chuck Edwards

Republicans in North Carolina selected state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom (R) as the new GOP nominee in the state’s 11th Congressional District, after Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) dropped out of the race last week. Members of the state GOP’s executive committee for the 11th district selected Balkcom just 85 days before Election Day in what projects...

Iran’s steep demands for US over Strait of Hormuz threaten to derail reopening

A deal between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is teetering over steep demands from Tehran for the United States and vice versa. Iran on Sunday said the agreement to set up new shipping lanes was in its final stages, but repeated ​that the vital waterway would only reopen once Washington met...

Trump says he hasn’t spoken to Blanche or Pirro about prosecuting Fauci

President Trump said Monday he has not spoken to Attorney General Todd Blanche nor Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., regarding prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci. “I have not spoken to them about that, no,” Trump told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott in the Oval Office. Last Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental...

American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order ‘dangerous’

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. "As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today's executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release. ...

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