By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2025. There are 342 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 23, 1870, approximately 200 Piegan Blackfoot tribe members, mostly women, children and older adults, were killed by US Army troops under the command of ...

WASHINGTON — Hamas’ release of three Israeli women it kidnapped and held hostage for 471 days provided quite the split-screen on Sunday. Israelis rejoiced that these young innocents had finally made it out of Hamas tunnels alive. Hundreds of Gazans surrounded the cars carrying the women to ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump won the whole Monopoly game. He never went directly to jail and always passed go. Timid Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was no match and didn’t even buy a railroad. The Big Tech money boys were literally behind Trump, in obsequious unity as he was sworn in ...

BERKELEY — So many people I know -- including, I suspect, many of you -- are despairing over Trump’s second regime. I share your fears about what’s to come. Yet I remain hopeful about the future of America. Here’s why. Trump hoodwinked average working Americans into believing ...

WASHINGTON — According to the Frank Sinatra song, “Love is lovelier, the second time around.” We’ll see how that works out in the second coming of Donald. J. Trump, now p resident of the United States for a second time, following a four-year “intermission.” The two terms will be a ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2025. There are 343 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion. On this ...