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LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday is expected to announce a lawsuit contesting President Donald Trump's executive authority to enact international tariffs without congressional approval.

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We understand the temptation for Chicago City Council members to blanket-ban the ragtag rioters and criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 believing they had permission from the man who now occupies the White ...Read more

Despite the various frictions, America’s technology sector did pretty well during Joe Biden’s presidency — and despite the various warnings about his mercurial opponent, many tech executives supported Donald Trump in...Read more

Critics see a threat to free speech in last week’s announcement that the Trump administration will henceforth review the social media history of visa applicants to weed out those who have expressed antisemitic views.

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If you're looking for a "podcast" to take your mind off of things, I have a great suggestion: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "fireside chats." I know the title makes it sound like ancient history, however, I promise you...Read more

WASHINGTON — Like much else in the nation’s capital, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in a state of uncertainty. For 53 years, this massive performance complex has served — with bipartisan grace...Read more

For years, the financial world has taken one truth for granted: people and countries will buy U.S. debt. If that changes, everything changes.

The United States borrows 30 trillion dollars… that’s trillion with a “T....Read more

Congratulations to Harvard University for fighting back against the Trump administration’s unseemly efforts to use federal dollars to try to exert unwarranted control over higher education. The oldest and richest college...Read more

As an economist, I know that information is key to our free-market system. If a business makes a good product sold at a fair price, it makes a profit. If it sells an inferior product or charges more than competitors, ...Read more

As an economist, I know that information is key to our free-market system. If a business makes a good product sold at a fair price, it makes a profit. If it sells an inferior product or charges more than competitors, ...Read more

We live in a time of distinction overload, namely a proliferation of distinctions that are employed in all aspects of contemporary political, economic, and social life.

Distinction Overload — let's name it — is ...Read more

When the financial markets go wild, investors naturally want to know, “What’s next?” Unfortunately, one answer turns out to be true every time: Brace yourself for a big upswing in financial fraud.

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If we were deeply divided during the last presidential election, I find we’re all in the same boat now. As I travel the country, people tell me they’re disoriented by the uncertainty, chaos, and confusion in society. I...Read more

There are times when even history’s most famous leaders need to follow a leader. Sometimes it is another famous figure who rises to the occasion. Other times, it’s not-so-famous faces.

But this is one of those moments...Read more

They say that when a butterfly flaps their wings, it can change the weather on the other side of the world. But what happens when butterflies die out?

The number of butterflies in the U.S. has declined by around 22% ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- President Donald Trump is giving deportations a bad name. In fact -- in a workaround intended to defy the Supreme Court -- Trump has turned one case into an international incident.

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CHICAGO — Former President Joe Biden sought Tuesday to use an audience in Chicago of national advocates for the disabled to reestablish himself as a leading party voice to challenge the actions of President Donald Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump wants Congress to change a policy that gives certain drugs longer protection from drug price negotiations in Medicare, a fix that could address one of the drug industry’s top complaints with the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican former Rep. Mayra Flores, who last year narrowly lost a second bid to reclaim a South Texas seat, announced Tuesday that she’s running again, though from a different district.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The chants echoed through the Missouri House chamber.

“Stand up, fight back.”

“Who’s house is this? Our house.”

“Yes on 3.”

The Missouri House on Tuesday advanced a Republican-led...Read more