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Los Angeles needs more cops; city squanders money elsewhere

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell just put an extraordinary number on what it would take to adequately police America's second-largest city: 12,500 officers.

Israel detains more than 70 in West Bank after deadly clashes

Israeli forces detained more than 70 people across the occupied West Bank overnight Friday and into Saturday after violence in a northern Palestinian village killed two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians. According to The Associated Press, the Israeli military said in a statement that troops searched more than 300 locations and arrested people it described...

Dangerous heat dome grips central US

Dangerously hot temperatures spanned across much of the central U.S. on Saturday as a sprawling heat dome, in which a high-pressure atmospheric system traps hot air over a large area keeping temperatures high, settled over the region that could persist into next week. Heat advisories went out for roughly 80 million people after the National...

‘California Never?’ Utopian city faces setbacks from industrial flight

Big dreams, sometimes stupid ones, comprise the heart of California's identity. 

Federal appeals court rejects Trump bid to enforce mail ballot order ahead of midterm elections

A federal appeals court blocked Trump's executive order on mail-in voting rules in 23 states, potentially sending the fight to the Supreme Court.

Michigan Courts: Chimpanzees Not ‘Persons,’ but One Justice Dissents

We can protect animals from wrongful treatment without wrongfully redefining animals as legal persons ‘who’ are morally equivalent to humans.

Princeton University and the Third Circuit

Perhaps these continued losses are just a cost of doing progressive business.

Mamdani’s rhetoric on Netanyahu still worries Jewish leaders after arrest reversal

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's admission that he cannot legally arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has done little to calm Jewish leaders, who say the mayor's broader rhetoric continues to deepen tensions at a moment of heightened concern over antisemitism.

Khanna joins Mamdani in calling for Netanyahu’s arrest in U.S.

Rep. Ro Khanna replicated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's call to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the U.S.

Court checks Pritzker as Trump administration scores another immigration win

A federal judge ruled Illinois laws providing in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal immigrants are unconstitutional, dealing a blow to JB Pritzker.

Logger-turned-lawmaker Troy Jackson claims Maine Senate nomination to replace Platner

Former state lawmaker Troy Jackson won the Democratic nomination for Maine's U.S. Senate seat on Saturday, capping nearly three weeks of political drama following the collapse of Graham Platner's campaign.

Lawmakers propose AI Kill Switch Act

A bipartisan bill to require artificial intelligence companies to maintain the ability to shut down their models was introduced following an OpenAI system going rogue during testing.

Paxton is trying to cut into Talarico’s lead with Latino voters. It’ll be tough.

MCALLEN, Texas — Just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Ken Paxton is trying to inherit President Donald Trump’s historic gains with Hispanic voters. The...

Biden judge blocking Ethiopian deportations despite SCOTUS ruling clashed with ICE before

Back-to-back rulings in Massachusetts blocked TPS terminations for Ethiopia and South Sudan, sparking fierce debate over lower court authority.

Rural voters turn on Trump again as poll swings 14 points

POLL: Rural voters have soured on Trump again, with his standing among the group flipping from positive to negative in the span of a month.

Trump returns to rescheduled correspondents’ dinner armed with insults and praise

President Trump addressed the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night, the event's first full gathering since an armed suspect disrupted the previous dinner months earlier, opening his remarks by praising Secret Service and law enforcement personnel for their response that night.

Founder of SCOTUSBlog sentenced to 6 years in prison for tax evasion

Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court and founded the widely read SCOTUSBlog but lived a secret life as a high-stakes poker player, was sentenced to six years in federal prison for tax evasion and mortgage fraud.

Maine Democrats crown Troy Jackson as Platner replacement as fresh scrutiny clouds Senate reset

Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and former state Senate president, now faces Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race ranked a toss-up.

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