President Donald Trump is taking decisive action against Iran instead of hoping to get away with kicking the can further down the road.

The Padres, along with the state of California, struck out when free-agent pitcher Merrill Kelly spurned San Diego to stay in Arizona — even though the Padres dangled a better deal.

Scott Pike’s deposition lit a rhetorical fire that will destroy LA’s and California’s defense against Palisades Fire victims in court.

We’re overjoyed to see Scouting America, long known as the Boy Scouts of America, ditch the DEI policies it adopted amid the country’s post-2020 racial fever.

We really wish Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hadn't joined Mayor Zohran Mamdani in failing to support police officers who got assaulted in the course of doing their duty.

Editorial: If the PM is to rebound from this disastrous result and fend off Zack Polanski from Labour's left flank, he must drop every distraction and ‘deliver, deliver, deliver’

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Hannah Spencer’s win was more than protest. It signalled that Labour’s moral language and coalition are up for grabs in its safest terrain

The Greens have every reason to celebrate their victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection. From a standing start in a Manchester constituency, Zack Polanski’s team tripled his party’s vote to capture a seat that had effectively voted Labour in every election but one since 1906 – the year Labour was born. Labour coming third behind Reform UK is not routine midterm turbulence. A 20-point collapse in the party’s vote is extraordinary.

Sir Keir Starmer was abandoned by a coalition of young progressives, working-class former Labour voters and Muslims. May’s Scottish and Welsh parliamentary as well as English council elections will paint the map in many colours. Not a lot of it will be red if this result is anything to go by. Labour’s vaunted ground game can’t save it if the ground has shifted. The party can’t turn out voters who’ve already tuned out.

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The president’s cuts have defunded and alienated thousands of American scientists. Europe can benefit, if it makes the right offer

Donald Trump has spent much of his second term at war with science and scientists. He is cutting staff at institutions such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a third, and has cancelled or frozen up to 8,000 federal research grants. This hasn’t just hurt individual research programmes, it has damaged America’s credibility as a reliable partner in the scientific community. It is not surprising that many researchers – one poll last year by the journal Nature gave the number of 75% – say they are considering leaving the US entirely.

However, it is one thing to express dissatisfaction, and quite another to up sticks and leave. If the UK and EU want to attract elite scientific talent, their approach must be twofold: appealing directly to scientists concerned with political interference in their research, and offering stable, ringfenced money.

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In a state that long has delivered poor value for tax dollars, it’s fair to ask: Whare are taxpayers getting for these lavish outlays?

The imminent release of child molester David Allen Funston is a disgrace — for which Gavin Newsom and his party are responsible. Democratic presidential primary voters should take note.

Editorial: Beset by backlogs and sclerotic bureaucracy, David Lammy must employ extraordinary measures to fix an ‘inhumane’ system that is so broken it is no longer fit for purpose

The state budget director, Blake Washington, just made a mockery of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's claims to face a fiscal crisis by pointing out that New York City's social-service outlays have exploded 50% since the pandemic.

If your subway ride wasn’t annoying enough today — between delays, packed cars, “Showtime!” dancers and homeless people who plague the system — get ready for ads blaring at you on the platform while you wait for your train.

The antisemitism at UCLA isn’t just a problem for Jews. It’s a threat to everyone’s civil rights.

At all levels of California government, public officials need to reverse course on taxing, spending and regulating.

Democratic Socialists aim to tax-to-the-max for ideological reasons; unions are motivated by greed, and as it turns out, labor’s been a driving force behind the “tax the rich” movement.

Editorial: The voters of Gorton and Denton have much more on the ballot paper than the choice of MP. We must all hope they choose wisely

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President Donald Trump hit it out of the park (again) with his 2026 State of the Union address, perhaps his most remarkable speech yet.

Gavin Newsom's widely-mocked high-speed rail isn't the only "train to nowhere" in California. In fact, the Golden State is a virtual graveyard of near-empty "ghost" trains and buses.

Voter fraud may be rare, but without voter ID, it’s impossible to know — and difficult to stop.

Zohran Mamdani’s socialist pals wrap their proposals in the most innocuous language possible.

Some "experts" at the Democratic National Committee have produced an “autopsy” of Kamala Harris' 2024 defeat that blames (of course!) . . . the Jews.