1+ week, 3+ day ago   (172+ words) MONTEREY – Monterey Police Chief Dave Hober will retire before the end of the year, closing out more than a decade with the city of Monterey, and an almost 39-year career in law enforcement. Hober announced his retirement in a press…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (865+ words) By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of Trump’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it. While the emergency order is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (693+ words) The spend of nearly $830,000 came as Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman wrapped up their compressed campaigns to win South Carolina’s GOP nomination in a special primary to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots. Tuesday’s Senate runoff tests…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (282+ words) The trip is the most recent example of how the president blurs the line between official business and travel in ways that can benefit his family business. His sons have taken over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization, but the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (497+ words) By ABBY SEWELL and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in 1981. The United Nations and most of the international community consider the territory occupied Syrian land and do not…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (200+ words) U.S. forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs. The U.S. Southern Command announced the strike in a social media post early Monday. The death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (504+ words) By NASSER KARIMI and DAVID RISING The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. Iran’s official Central Bank rate stood at around 1.5 million rial to the dollar, but the market rate is what most…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (502+ words) I was born behind barbed wire to parents the United States classified as “enemy aliens” during World War II. Yet, because of the Constitution’s assurance of birthright citizenship, I was born an American citizen. That fact is a lesson in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (494+ words) In his most recent challenge to the results of the 2020 U.S. election, President Donald Trump this week cited a report claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted, a practice studies have found to be extremely rare. Trump’s Truth Social post…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (867+ words) The reflecting pool repairs and other projects tied to President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 initiative landed on a separate list for White House priorities, the documents show. Many of the administration-backed projects have advanced, though the reflecting pool repairs were botched....