14+ hour, 52+ min ago   (381+ words) A Pennsylvania woman has died from complications associated with measles, the third death in the state this year involving the virus. The 40-year-old woman died Saturday, Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said in a Facebook post in which he called…...

19+ hour, 23+ min ago   (517+ words) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom dismissed an escalating federal investigation into his administration, including the donations that paid for his travel, saying it was retribution for his criticism of President Trump and his policies. Newsom’s response comes after a report in…...

19+ hour, 38+ min ago   (356+ words) WAUSAU, Wis. — U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor, wiped away tears and laughed while sharing how thankful he was Sunday to survive a harrowing late-night emergency landing into a lake of the small plane he was…...

23+ hour, 31+ min ago   (722+ words) CAIRO — An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran plans to brief countries in the region on its contested efforts to manage shipping traffic…...

23+ hour, 4+ min ago   (820+ words) DUBLIN — President Trump on Sunday again played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (453+ words) While it’s common to gloss over, even celebrate, enemy combatants’ deaths, it’s much harder for most of us to dismiss civilian deaths, to believe they’re either warranted or otherwise acceptable. But this isn’t a given — and there is reason to…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1016+ words) Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, the world got word that a true political giant, Gloria Steinem, had died. Ten years ago, Yiannopoulos made…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1670+ words) DELANO, Calif. — The rows of candies and nuts at the Guadalajara Meat Market — tamarindo con chile, seasoned pistachios, spicy paletas — sat mostly untouched as customers filtered through this carniceria in the late afternoon heat. “You see a lot of people…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (868+ words) I predict you’re going to hate this column. Which means you’ll love it. As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication. Beginning with that fateful moment 25 years ago when I…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1410+ words) Gavin Newsom, the California governor who loves to heckle Donald Trump and talk about the “big swings” he’s taken at policy while in office, is now a lame duck. Within a few short months, he will be termed out of…...