There is a ritual to California’s elections now, and the ritual is patience. The polls close, the night ends, and the counting goes on — for days, sometimes weeks, in a state so large it counts like a small nation. To those who live there, it is procedure. To the President of the United States, watching from across the country
There is a particular kind of political theater that only California can stage, and on Tuesday, it raised the curtain again. Out of a field of sixty-one — sixty-one! — the voters of the nation’s largest state narrowed their choices to two men who could not be more different in pedigree or promise. Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra
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There are calls that change a war, and then there is the one President Trump placed to Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday — blunt, profane, and, by every account that has leaked since, decisive. Israel had ordered strikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Beirut, Iran had walked away from negotiations with Washington in protest, and Trump saw months of his own
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The deal, such as it was, is off. Iran has stopped talking. And it has begun to organize instead. On Monday, after Israel’s strikes on Beirut, Tehran pulled the plug on the back-channel diplomacy that mediators had been quietly stitching together for weeks — the fragile architecture meant to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and walk everyone back toward formal
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Nearly two years on, the debate that broke a presidency is being told again — this time by the woman who stood closest to it. In a new CBS interview, former first lady Jill Biden has offered an account that lands with a different weight than anything said in the immediate aftermath of that June night in 2024. She was
A diplomatic breakthrough, cautious and unfinished, may be taking shape between Washington and Tehran. American and Iranian negotiators have agreed in principle to a sixty-day memorandum of understanding — a framework that would extend the ceasefire and open formal talks on Iran’s nuclear program. The terms, largely settled as of Tuesday, await final approval from both governments. President Trump has
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants $33,000 in taxpayer money for an official portrait of himself — and the timing could hardly be worse. The request appears quietly in his proposed 2026–27 budget under a line item labeled “Governor’s Portrait,” covering the traditional painting destined to hang in the State Capitol alongside California’s past governors. It is a longstanding Sacramento tradition.
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A senior Justice Department official — a career attorney with decades inside the institution — sent a quiet, anxious email two days after the FBI’s August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago. She hadn’t known the raid was coming. And she wasn’t sure it should have happened the way it did. The email, recently surfaced by Just the News as part of
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Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) accused the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of politically weaponizing religion by “rebuking” Democrats who support abortion, and the congressman suggested that these Catholic churches should
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