BERKELEY — If Kamala Harris wins in November, American women will deserve a lot of the credit. Polls suggest women will vote in record margins for Kamala Harris. The ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sept. 1 found Harris leading Trump by a whopping 54% to 41% among women. Donald Trump has a ...

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2024. There are 109 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 13, 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed ...

WASHINGTON — In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for failure to ...

NEW YORK — Do you carry a gun? Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy. “Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” says a cop on ABC’s “The Rookie.” Liberal politicians agree. “A ...

WASHINGTON -- “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote Shakespeare, but the Bard didn’t know what the summer of ‘24 had in store. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. And the garden knows it; the ...

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Thursday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2024. There are 110 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. Also on this ...