LOS ANGELES — The Department of Homeland Security's "sanctuary jurisdiction list" has more holes than the plot for the latest "Mission Impossible" film.

All you need to know about its accuracy is how my native Orange County fared.

The only O.C. city on the list is Huntington Beach — you know, the 'burb with an all-Republican council that's...Read more

Electric car subsidies are heading for the chopping block. A tax bill recently passed by House Republicans is set to stop billions in taxpayer cash from being spent on electric vehicle purchases.

If embraced by the Senate and signed into law by President Donald Trump, the bill would gut long-standing government handouts for going electric.

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The community of Boulder has once again suffered a horrific attack. On Sunday, a terrorist fueled by antisemitism attempted to burn people alive who had gathered on the Pearl Street Mall to walk in solidarity with Israeli hostages still held captive by Hamas.

We pray fervently for the eight victims to survive this horror and fully recover from ...Read more

Artificial intelligence is reshaping human beings' relationship with the world around us, with knowledge, with each other and with our very selves.

While similar claims could be made about previous disruptive technologies, from the plow to the internal combustion engine to the microchip, each of which altered societies and humans' self-...Read more

Last June, during an annual security conference in East Asia, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underscored that the United States was not seeking conflict with China. Maintaining a consistent dialogue with Beijing, he hinted, was just as vital to effective deterrence as ensuring the U.S. military was fully equipped and prepared.

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While we worry about the growing threat of robots guzzling up America’s groundwater, we can’t ignore the risk that cows will consume it all first.

A new study by researchers at Arizona State University put the depth of our water problem in perspective. It found that groundwater in the lower Colorado River basin — a region filling up with...Read more

Helmets off to the Ukrainians for giving the Russian aggressors a humiliating black eye and the loss of $7 billion in military hardware using 117 relatively cheap drones.

Yes, war is hell and that pain should be felt by the instigators of war (like Vladimir Putin) and not just the victims (like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy). What the...Read more

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new Make America Healthy Again report offers a road to wellness for the nation’s children paved not with the gold-standard science he promised, but with pyrite.

The report, created by a MAHA commission that includes all of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, mixes nuggets of truth— like the...Read more

The roughly $100 million SpaceX Starship rocket that blew up last week coincided with Elon Musk’s costly flameout overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.

SpaceX, one of Musk’s companies that has benefited from at least $38 billion in corporate welfare from the federal government, termed the failed rocket mission a “rapid ...Read more

The latest cease-fire proposal that seeks to stop the fighting between Israel and Hamas is in jeopardy. The reason shouldn’t be a surprise: The terror group refuses to give up its murderous efforts to drive the Jewish state into the sea.

The White House over the weekend offered a new plan to end the hostilities, at least temporarily. But ...Read more

The Egyptian national accused of using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to terrorize a group of Israeli hostage supporters in Colorado was in the U.S. illegally.

It’s exactly what the Trump administration is fighting against: An antisemite in our land illegally.

Yet, our attorney general in Massachusetts, Andrea Campbell, puts ...Read more

One of the most striking patterns in the aftermath of many urban fires is how much unburned green vegetation remains amid the wreckage of burned neighborhoods.

In some cases, a row of shrubs may be all that separates a surviving house from one that burned just a few feet away.

As scientists who study how vegetation ignites and burns, we aren�...Read more

Serious followers of healthcare policy in the U.S. didn't expect much good to emerge from its takeover by President Donald Trump and his secretary of Health and Human Services, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But the agency and its leadership managed to live down to the worst expectations May 27, when HHS released a 73-page "...Read more

The Trump administration is planning to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of HIV Prevention. The collapse of HIV prevention will mean 143,000 additional people in the United States will acquire HIV in the next five years. We are on the cusp of a public health crisis.

The most recent attack on the reproductive...Read more

He was not a philosopher MAGA would read, but he was also not a philosopher mainstream liberals would read. And not just because that would mean admitting they didn't know as much as they thought and needed help in thinking more deeply — a fact about ourselves, to be fair, most of us don't want to accept — but because he wouldn't come down ...Read more

Louisiana District Attorneys Association (LDAA), a special interest lobbying group, stands in the way of justice in Louisiana. On May 21, the LDAA successfully blocked a legislative pathway for hundreds of people to receive fair constitutional trials. Louisiana is the only state in the United States of America where people are serving sentences ...Read more

When I was a kid, there was a commercial for the brokerage firm EF Hutton with the iconic line: “When EF Hutton talks, people listen.” The entire group of people in the commercial would go silent, and heads would turn. Everyone knew that what was about to be said was important.

But when homeless people talk? People cross the street. They ...Read more

The roads leaving California are filled with people driven out by good intentions.

Recent population numbers show the Las Vegas Valley continues to grow rapidly. From the summer of 2020 to the summer of 2024, the region’s population jumped by 120,000 people, a 5.4 percent increase. The growth rate nationally was 2.6%.

That increase is driven...Read more

San Francisco announced and then swiftly reversed a new “grading for equity” initiative last week. The rapid reversal is a sign of a resurgent moderate wing of urban politics — and of a growing anxiety among Democrats that they are losing their traditional status as the party the public trusts on education.

There are many dimensions to ...Read more

Seattle and Boeing were together for decades until Chicago came along. But after the company moved its headquarters from a cloudy city to a windy one, it struggled.

Was it us? The deep-dish pizza and Italian beef? The ongoing wait for another Super Bowl title?

As this iconic aerospace giant tries to regain altitude after yet another turbulent ...Read more