ANALYSIS/OPINION: Christine Blasey Ford apparently thought all she was signing up for was her 15 minutes of fame. Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer didn’t say anything about having to take questions and corroborate her account of a teenage date night gone horribly wrong. She obviously thought (and perhaps was told) that she would just tell Read More…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is flexing his executive power to declassify secret documents in the Russia investigation, an extraordinary move he says will ensure that “really bad things” at the FBI are exposed. But the decision, made against the backdrop of Trump’s spiraling outrage at the special counsel’s Russia investigation, may expose sensitive sources Read More…
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – A Fresno man has been convicted of helping kill two people, including the father of a friend. The Fresno Bee says 22-year-old Jorge Rodriguez showed no emotion as he was sentenced Tuesday for the December 2014 shootings in southeast Fresno. Police contend that Rodriguez and another man were involved in a Read More…
The government says it’s being forced to turn illegal immigrant children over to sponsors who are themselves in the U.S. illegally — and many of those adults already have criminal records, leaving the kids in a precarious position. Matthew Albence, the chief of deportations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told senators during a hearing Read More…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The Latest on an Alaska man charged in connection with disappearance and death of 10-year-old girl (all times local): 4:15 p.m. An Alaska man linked to a missing 10-year-old girl’s death made his first appearance in federal court Tuesday. Peter Wilson, 41, of Kotzebue is charged with making false statements as Read More…
The woman who accuses Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault 35 years ago has told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI should investigate her claims before she testifies about them. In a letter Tuesday to Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa Republican and panel chairman, Christine Blasey Ford says only an FBI probe can “ensure that Read More…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California Gov. Jerry Brown has once again vetoed a bill that would have banned paying people based on the number of signatures they collect for ballot initiatives. In the veto message he released Tuesday, Brown quoted his previous veto message from 2011, when he rejected a similar bill. “Per-signature payment is Read More…
Federal agencies are allowing California scientists to import from Canada a novel cannabis mix for experimentation to treat a common neurological disorder that affects millions of older Americans. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego said Tuesday they received approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration to import a Read More…
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) – Authorities say a Casa Grande man has been arrested in the shooting of his pregnant girlfriend who delivered the baby two months early. Pinal County Sheriff’s officials say 23-year-old Javier Figueroa is jailed on suspicion of aggravated assault and misconduct involving weapons. They say Figueroa’s 30-year-old girlfriend was airlifted to Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A Northern California jury on Tuesday found guilty a career criminal thought to be the “Gypsy Hill Killer” of raping and murdering two teenage girls more than 42 years ago. The San Mateo County jury deliberated for a little more than an hour before finding Rodney Halbower guilty. Authorities believe the Read More…
METHUEN, Mass. (AP) – Police in Massachusetts say they have charged a New Hampshire man with kidnapping after they found him with a missing 16-year-old boy. Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon announced Tuesday that 45-year-old Charles Anderson, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was arrested last week. Anderson also was charged with drug crimes. Police say Anderson Read More…
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A former Texas prison guard is being accused of assaulting an inmate who has died from his injuries. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Tuesday D’Andre Glasper has been charged with aggravated assault by a public servant. Authorities allege Glasper injured inmate Gary Ryan during an Aug. 30 confrontation in Read More…
The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee told reporters Tuesday she can’t say if everything Christine Blasey Ford has said is truthful — but said she does believe Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser is credible. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s comments, reported on Twitter by Fox News journalists and quickly pounced on by Republicans, marked a break with Read More…
Senators hope to get a chance next week to hear personally from both Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and his accuser, but even then experts predict they will struggle to cut through the he-said-she-said nature of the sexual assault allegation. Sorting out the gap between Christine Blasey Ford’s recollection of the events at a party more Read More…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina appeals judges say a prisoner convicted of first-degree murder must have the chance to be released one day since he committed the crimes at age 17. A state Court of Appeals panel said Tuesday that Montrez Benjamin Williams must be resentenced to life in prison with the possibility for Read More…
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) – A 28-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for sex crimes involving a child. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt say Timothy Russell Frobish, of Galena, was sentenced Tuesday to life without the possibility for parole for 25 years. Frobish was found guilty by a Cherokee County jury in Read More…
LOS ANGELES — A California physician who appeared in a reality TV dating show and an alleged female accomplice have been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting two women, and authorities said Tuesday there could be many more victims. Orthopedic surgeon Grant W. Robicheaux, 38, of Newport Beach and Cerissa Laura Riley, 31, of Brea Read More…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal grand jury in Arkansas has issued a new indictment against a man and his son alleging the father attempted to kill a U.S. airman on a military base in Japan. Justice Department and Air Force officials said Tuesday Rodrigo Pineda Gomez, formerly of Jacksonville, Arkansas, and his son, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Defiance and dirty dealing from an enemy is expected, collusion with an enemy to reinforce its effrontery is not. Thanks to John Kerry, President Trump will face an extra formidable Iran when patience meets effrontery next week at the United Nations. The former U.S. secretary of State is conducting shadow diplomacy designed to foil Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: For decades, America’s liberals have looked across the Atlantic with envy. France has socialized medicine. Germany has strong trade unions. Italy and France have excellent food. (Sometimes envy is understandable.) Sweden has often been particularly idealized. Indeed, certain delicate Democrats were once mocked by red-meat conservatives as “Volvo-and-beansprout” liberals. With lavish welfare spending (and Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Once upon a time on campus the sexes (nobody but verbs and nouns worried about “gender”) occupied separate dormitories and women’s dorms had locked doors when someone turned out the lights. Now campuses everywhere have co-ed dorms, some with “gender-neutral housing,” where students can share a room with either sex. To no rational person’s Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Trump’s vision for replacing the holes in the ground left when the World Trade Center towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, was to build them back stronger, straight, and one floor taller. His vision of defiance was not to be, and instead one building in place of two stands now as Manhattan’s rebuke Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Suspicion as deep and wide as the Potomac River is flowing through the corridors of power in Washington. Set loose by hardened opponents of President Trump with charge and countercharge about suspected collusion with Russians bent on cooking an American election, it threatens to swamp the swamp, if that’s possible, and drown us all Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: If Donald Trump has the kryptonite powers of Superman that both his friends and enemies think he has (and who are we to say he doesn’t?), kryptonite power #1 is his ability to absorb limitless drama and energy from an attack and send it back at his attacker in bursts of invective from both Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Summer isn’t what it used to be. Almost nothing is. But with the dying of the happiest season we return refreshed to the demands of job, family and community. Labor Day has come and gone and Americans are stepping back into the harness of duty. The advent of autumn kicks off the midterm election Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: For more than a year, President Trump raged at “the deep state” which he believed was arrayed against him, a cabal of highly placed men and women within the federal government, many of them holdover remnants of the Obama administration, working to destroy him and his agenda by any means necessary. The president’s claims Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Americans love villains, or at least love to hate them. Darth Vader beating up on dashing Luke Skywalker and Lord Voldemort scaring the innocent young Harry Potter are the stuff of tales that affirm the triumph of good over evil. When the script is flipped and the anti-hero prevails, audiences boo, hiss and jeer. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Democrats, notably including the editors of The New York Times, have decided that the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings are but a charade, and they’re right for once. But they’re right, alas, for the wrong reasons. The Democrats, based on their performance since Brett Kavanaugh’s name was first sent to the U.S. Senate, regard the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Impeachment is the Democratic daydream, but most senior Democrats, who have been in Washington long enough to know how things actually work, are holding their tongues. If they cry impeachment now, with nothing more legally substantial than a wish and the dream, they only encourage Republicans to rally for November. Without control of the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: If Bill Clinton is regarded as one of the most astute of the Democrats — he survived impeachment and a credible accusation of rape — Chairman Eric Bauman of the California Democratic Party is a pol with a lot to learn. When Mr. Bauman learned that a certain Southern California hamburger chain contributes to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Clever marketing is as important to selling a political candidate as selling a laxative or a Lexus. Bill Clinton and the Democrats insisted a generation ago they wanted abortion to be “legal, safe and rare?” The unlucky child waiting to be born might have a strong difference of opinion about how one important abortion Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Donald Trump has held any number of positions on just about everything — abortion, single-payer health care, even illegal immigration. Now governing as a rock-ribbed conservative, Mr. Trump took a circuitous path to his current ideological home. There’s one profound exception to this. Trade. Since the 1980s, the president has railed against what he Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: No one asks to be born. Yet the dawning of self-realization brings the inescapable challenge to make the best of life. Many “kill it,” figuratively speaking, surmounting the hurdles and making their time on earth a blessing to themselves and to their fellow men (and women, too, if it’s really necessary to say it). Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Playing God, even online, is not as easy as it looks. Facebook, Twitter and the other technology firms in control of the social-media universe are learning that with nearly limitless power comes the responsibility to administer it fairly. So far social media has failed. Bias, mostly but not all left-leaning, has obstructed the free Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Heroism on the battlefield is the ultimate tribute man can pay to those whom he loves, and above all to his country. But such heroism is not limited to the actual fields where sword flashes against sword. John McCain was a hero for his exploits in the sky above the battlefield as a Navy Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Washington is a one-horse town, and that horse, a swayback nag, is politics. Politics is a year-round business and with the congressional midterms less than 2-1/2 months away it’s high season for pundits. They’re gazing deep into the shallows — their favorite destination — looking for clues to what’s happening elsewhere. They’ve concluded that Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Mollie Tibbetts, 20, a psychology student at the University of Iowa, went for a jog on July 18 and was never seen alive again. She was once a cross-country runner, a good athlete, and hope was fading but still alive when the first month passed and she was still missing. Then her body was Read More…