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On July 1, California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced AB 1383, a bill that guts the pension reform Sacramento passed in 2013 to keep its own promises honest. It would drop the public safety retirement age from 57 to 55, invent a new 3%-at-55 benefit formula, and let cities bargain away the cost-sharing rules that reform … Read more
American medicine is freaking out. Polls show that trust in medical professionals is the lowest in decades. Barely half the public has high levels of trust in doctors, with double-digit percentage declines in recent years. While the media is pointing the finger at politicians like President Donald Trump, the truth is that a different kind … Read more
EXCLUSIVE — A little-known United Nations agency funded by the Trump administration has worked with Hamas to provide Gaza aid supplies, a report obtained by the Washington Examiner reveals. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs cooperated with the Hamas-linked Palestinian Ministry of Social Development from at least 2021 to 2025,continue reading …
Vance Boelter, the man charged with killing a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband last year, was sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty last month. Boelter, 59, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty after initially entering a not guilty plea following his … Read more
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the largest massacre … Read more
Republican governors, data center developers, and utilities have signed on to President Donald Trump‘s ratepayer protection pledge, promising to ensure that data centers secure their own energy to prevent households from bearing the cost. The president, along with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin,continue reading …
A senior official with the secretary of the Navy‘s office was placed on administrative leave on Wednesday after he appeared to condemn the Trump administration in an undercover video. In an announcement posted to X, acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said senior Navy official Brandon Newsom had exhibited behavior “inappropriate and incompatible with … Read more
The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island, challenges the Trump administration’s new requirement that states must certify their voter rolls and abide by federal immigration law. The law being challenged also allowed the Department of Homeland Security to cancel grants for any reason. Over two dozen plaintiffs argued the administration was holding disaster continue reading …
The United States is on pace to record its lowest homicide rate in more than a century, according to a report released Thursday, as killings continue to fall across much of the country despite an intensely polarized debate over crime and public safety. The midyear report from the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice found homicides … Read more
The findings come as crime has become a central issue for the administration, with President Donald Trump continuing to argue that aggressive federal intervention is needed in cities he says are plagued by violent crime. Over the past year, Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and authorized similar deployments in other metropolitan … Read more
