It's understandable that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is outraged by President Donald Trump's decision to commute the sentence of his pal…
Here we go again. California is back on coronavirus lockdown. And we have no one to blame but ourselves. With the harshest of initial pandemic…
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On July 16, 1945, at around 5:30 a.m., 11-year-old Henry Herrera was outside his home in Tularosa, New Mexico, helping his father work on the …
The dual opinions that the Supreme Court issued Thursday concerning the release of President Donald Trump's financial records amount to a soun…
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Facebook may finally stop lending its enormously powerful microphone and amplifier to deceitful politicians and manipulative campaigns. And in…
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who had the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn yanked out of his hands by a f…
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"The past is not dead, in fact, it is not even past.” This quote from the great American novelist William Faulkner is most relevant in today’s…
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Under intense pressure from mostly Black community organizers, some local governments are responding to demands to defund the police and dives…
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"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear." My old UCLA coach, John Wooden, used to quote that Walt Whitman poem often, and I've been …
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My son, who is nearly 17 years old and Black, is afraid to go outside. "Mom, I am a Black guy wearing a mask in Oakland," he told me. "I am go…
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Speaking at Mount Rushmore last Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race.
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