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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. 

Trump allies notch redistricting win as judges find no ‘smoking gun’ to scrap red state map

A three-judge panel ruled Tennessee's redrawn congressional map can stand for the Aug. 6 primary, rejecting claims it targeted Black voters in Memphis.

Abdul El-Sayed scores Sen Tina Smith’s endorsement in Democratic primary that exposes party divide

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, has thrown her support behind Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Trump says Iran will pay — what it takes to end the war remains unclear

Trump's Iran campaign now focuses on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but no clear conditions exist for ending strikes as nuclear talks stall.

Divided Fourth Circuit Panel Creates Circuit Conflict on Habeas Jurisdiction for Detained Aliens

The Fourth Circuit’s ruling creates a conflict with the two other circuits that have addressed the issue.

New Jersey Refuses to Cooperate with DOJ Investigation into Noncitizen Voting

Sherrill refused to turn over personal information on the nearly 7,000 noncitizens who were accidentally added to voter rolls.

The Real Bernie Sanders Always Stands Up for What’s Wrong

Bernie’s blindness has a long history.

The Ironclad Economics of Superhero Movies

Why we will keep seeing Marvel and DC superheroes at the local multiplex for a long while, even after some of these movies are...

Who Let the Noncitizens onto New Jersey’s Voter Rolls?

This investigation isn’t over just because Sherrill wants her preferred answer to be taken as the end of the story.

Why Not Combine Liberal Arts and Occupational Education?

Some schools are moving toward a hybrid model.

Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Trump meeting, Lindsey Graham funeral

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to visit Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with President Trump and to attend the funeral service for Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a staunch Republican ally of Israel.

Secret Service investigates leaked information about Vance’s travels

A Secret Service agent in Vice President J.D. Vance's protective detail is facing an internal investigation and potential criminal inquiry over accusations of leaked information to the press regarding the vice president's travels.

El-Sayed warns that outside groups ‘are trying to buy a vote in the U.S. Senate’

Abdul El-Sayed said Friday that more outside money has been spent against him in Michigan's Democratic senatorial primary "than ever" has been spent against a candidate, warning that allies of Israel, Big Pharma and AI are trying to buy the Senate seat.

Laura Loomer flips switch on Ukraine war narrative: ‘We have been so propagandized by Russia’

Conservative political activist Laura Loomer sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview that resulted in a 180-degree turn in her previously charged rhetoric about the country's four-plus-year war with Russia.

Trump says attacked vessels should be repaid with Iranian money, prompting warning from Tehran

President Trump says commercial shippers that sustain damage from attacks in the Middle East should be reimbursed using frozen Iranian assets.

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