When a ship is going down, the rats begin to flee. The same is true when it comes to the downfall of a powerful public official.

On Thursday, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against Eric Adams, charging the New York mayor with fraud, bribery, conspiracy and soliciting illegal campaign donations from foreign donors. The detailed 57-...Read more

The bird flu may be entering a dangerous new phase. The risk that any given person will be sickened or die remains low, but the risk of this virus mutating into the next human pandemic is high enough to warrant action. That starts with much more aggressive measures to test and contain infected dairy herds.

“If we really don't want this to ...Read more

Americans are losing touch with the world, and the presidential campaign isn’t solving the problem.

Economic issues, immigration, taxes, and even dogs and cats dominated the recent presidential debate between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, but less noticed in the fray and its coverage was the effort by the candidates to ...Read more

In a shrewd act of branding, Amtrak announced a “new” daily train beginning in November, just as snowbirds get chilly. “The Floridian” will take Chicagoans all the way to Miami, with intermediate stops in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa. In Amtrak parlance, it will do so “in comfort and style,�...Read more

Does it make any difference to the Palestinian people whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the Nov. 5 election? I think it does, big time.

I understand why many Palestinians, Arab Americans and political progressives in the United States are anguished and angry at the Biden administration’s refusal to stop sending weapons of war to ...Read more

It’s time to retire the old trope that Democrats are anti-business. Perhaps it’s Republicans that are bad for business?

The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s comprehensive annual update published Thursday revealed that the U.S. economy grew $294.2 billion more in the five years ended in 2023 than previously reported. What’s really striking ...Read more

The world, warned President Joe Biden, is at an “inflection point.”

The world, warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, “is in a whirlwind.”

“Our task, our test,” the president said, “is to make sure that the forces holding us together are stronger than those that are pulling us apart.” Today’s choices, he said, “...Read more

Over the course of the past nearly three years, Eric Adams has managed to do some lasting good for the city, and for these things New Yorkers owe him gratitude. Now, Adams must decide if he can effectively carry on as mayor while he fights federal felony charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery, and pocketing campaign contributions by foreign ...Read more

Here’s the official state policy for state leaders when it comes to educating its children about human reproduction: See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.

And pray for luck. Florida’s kids are going to need it.

Because it’s becoming clear that, to the leaders of the current regime, sex is evil. Even talking about sex is evil. ...Read more

The latest early education stats are out. And once again, they show that few places in America do a sorrier job preparing kids for kindergarten than Florida.

Basically, we serve a lot of kids, but serve them poorly … making us like the Taco Bell of early education.

So says the National Institute for Early Education Research, which surveys ...Read more

On Tuesday, congressional leaders spent two hours taking to task Novo Nordisk Chief Executive Officer Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen over the high price of the company’s diabetes and obesity drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Now the question is whether those prices will change.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, chair of the Senate health committee, focused ...Read more

I’m an independent who has voted for Democrats and Republicans over the years, and what I appreciated most about Taylor Swift’s presidential endorsement was that she didn’t tell people what to think or who to vote for. What she did do was outline a thoughtful process and share where she came out.

What Swift didn’t include was how we can...Read more

The repeated recent jabs at childless women as somehow less than — with less of a stake in the republic, according to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, and less humility, according to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders — strike me as not only cruel, but puzzling.

Because doesn’t everyone have a favorite aunt or teacher or ...Read more

On Sept. 10, the same day that former President Donald Trump alleged on the debate stage that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating their neighbors’ dogs and cats, a much greater man spoke before the Springfield City Council.

His name is Nathan Clark, and he is the father of Aiden Clark, an 11-year-old Springfield resident...Read more

A flurry of last-minute election rule changes. A shoutout from former President Donald Trump from his rally stage. A sweeping mandate for Georgia counties to hand-count more than one million ballots on election night.

If you’ve been watching the new Trump-aligned majority on the State Election Board recently, you might be asking yourself who ...Read more

The lyrics from a catchy ’80s tune have been running through my head for the past week.

“Stop spreading those rumors around. Stop spreading those lies.”

Calling to mind this 1986 song by Timex Social Club was the lighthearted way I dealt with heavy emotions about the impact recent political rumors have had on the country.

All week long,...Read more

Just up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black and Asian American — with a major Chevron refinery whose pollution has been an ongoing source of conflict (the city just reached a $550 million settlement with Chevron to mitigate health and ...Read more

Nebraska has long counted its electoral votes in presidential elections differently than almost every other state in the union. Forty-eight states are winner-take-all, meaning that the candidate who gets the most popular votes gets all of that state’s electoral votes. A single-vote victory in California or Texas or Florida or New York yields ...Read more

You've heard it many times: A voter says they don't like Donald Trump; they cite his nasty personality, divisiveness or penchant for saying stupid stuff. But then they say they'll vote for him anyway: "Because I liked his policies."

What policies? The voters rarely say, nor do reporters follow up. Curious minds, not least mine, want to know: ...Read more