22+ hour, 11+ min ago  (684+ words) By Erin M. Evans, Five years ago, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors threatened to close the San Pasqual Academy. This unique educational and residential facility for teenagers in foster care is again under threat. I spoke out then, and…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (386+ words) Donald Trump wants to crush The Swamp. The leaks, the sneaks, and the secrets are all there. Our writers, David Gardner, Farrah Tomazin, Sarah Ewall-Wice, and Laura Esposito, are sifting through the ooze so you don’t have to. Don’t miss…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (453+ words) A Republican sheriffin South Carolina, a deep red state, was reamed out by a judge after being convicted — and sentenced to 41 months in prison — for a torrent of corrupt behavior. Monk then quoted Cain, who was appointed by President Barack…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (485+ words) President Donald Trump's controversial new intelligence chief is clearing house, and career officers warn the man swinging the axe doesn't know what he's cutting. Also Read: Scorching heat and empty baptism pools: Inside Trump's deserted American State Fair But former…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (469+ words) When EA Sports College Football 27 opened early access on July 2, Ohio State showed up with one of the deepest rosters in the game. But 25 Buckeyes did not make the opening lineup, and the most notable absence is incoming five‑star…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (981+ words) Former DOGE official Jeremy Lewin's expected move from the State Department to the White House National Security Council was delayed after conservative activist Laura Loomer launched a public campaign highlighting his past legal work for liberal constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (829+ words) By THE BLADE EDITORIAL BOARD, Perhaps Vice President JD Vance deserves praise for his candor in defending the corruption that ended the presidency of Richard Nixon as a triumph of “the deep state.” But his casual concern for Oval Office…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (412+ words) For the record, I agree with Vice President Vance: If the right-wing media empire that exists today had been in place in the seventies, President Nixon would have survived Watergate. What the president and his cronies are now so flagrantly…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1699+ words) By Yue Stella Yu • CalMatters, Following weeks of negotiations, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders have agreed on a $351.7 billion budget next year that raises some taxes, sets aside $6.4 billion for the year after and softens or delays billions…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (737+ words) Justice Samuel Alito's legal reasoning in a landmark voting rights case was mocked as "braindead" and blamed on his presumed consumption of conservative media. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law by a 5-4 vote allowing election officials to count mail-in…...