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WASHINGTON —  President Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people Friday, including civil rights icons such as the late Medgar Evers, political leaders such as former House Speaker …

Bill Maher on his HBO talk show this week said that pro-Palestinian student protests on college campuses are what happens when “activism merges with narcissism.” The Atlantic columnist David Frum …

President Biden’s recent pro-housing pivot didn’t come a moment too soon. Even though the housing shortage is long-standing, well-known and worse in blue cities, high housing costs somehow sneaked up …

BEIRUT —  People across the Gaza Strip sent messages of appreciation to demonstrators on U.S. campuses, thanking them for their protests against the Israel-Hamas war. Children, parents and medical staff assembled …

Eagle Rock resident Sally Juarez has a rental home that many in L.A. can only dream of. It’s a five-minute walk from busy Eagle Rock Boulevard. Even better? Her two-bedroom …

Since the opening of the Donald Trump’s New York trial — when the former president’s counsel told the jury that the prosecution’s star witness “cannot be trusted” — the defense …

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointees could vote next week on a widely criticized plan that climate activists, solar installers and labor unions say would pointlessly slow California efforts to phase out …

The noise — unsettling and dissonant — has been a constant inside the barricaded pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA. Soon after protesters, most of them students at the Westwood campus, pitched …

After more than two weeks of recounting and several contested ballots, the verdict in California’s 16th Congressional District is in. Democratic Assemblymember Evan Low has narrowly edged out Santa Clara …

The Arizona Senate was poised to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban, with a final vote expected to send a measure to the Democratic governor that would end weeks of …