Because of San Francisco’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean, temperatures tend to stay cool there, even as inland areas roast. This summer, that nip in the air has been felt as far as the Sacramento Valley.
As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the state’s nonpartisan redistricting system. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to pause it to help Democrats.
Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment.
President Trump’s announcement that he was reviving the Presidential Fitness Test stirred up powerful memories for Americans who were forced to complete the annual measure of their physical abilities.
The resignation comes as President Trump has openly pressured the central bank to lower interest rates and called for Jerome H. Powell, the chair, to step down.
Dozens of demonstrators, calling for a flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, were arrested at the Manhattan offices of New York’s two senators.
The protesters, organized by the antiwar group Jewish Voice for Peace, chanted and banged pots and pans in the lobby of the Midtown Manhattan building where both senators have offices.
Data showing cracks in the U.S. labor market and President Trump’s newest barrage of tariffs shook investors around the world, weighing on stocks, the dollar and more.
The resignation comes as President Trump has been openly pressuring the central bank to lower interest rates and calling for Jerome H. Powell, the chair, to step down.
In a social media post, the president described the move as a deterrent prompted by threats by a former Russian leader. It is unclear if any submarines did actually change position.
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat of California, referred to the character Elmo during a congressional hearing about funding for public broadcasting in March.
Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.
Documents released in the inquiry into the deadly midair collision over the Potomac River on Jan. 29 reveal new details about three people whose decisions shaped the outcome of the disaster.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said that unauthorized immigrants could avoid being taken to the state-run detention center in the Everglades if they chose to self-deport.
Four radioactive wasp nests may indicate previously undetected environmental contamination at the decades-old Savannah River Site. Here’s what to know.
Transgender care for adolescents has become a flashpoint along with other medical services, including abortion, medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide.
The Russian president didn’t directly respond to President Trump’s ultimatum that Moscow halt its offensive by the end of next week or face financial penalties.
Mike Donilon was among former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s aides who resisted calls for him to end his re-election campaign, even after a damaging debate performance.
The decision to free an American convicted of murder in a prisoner swap with Venezuela threatened to undercut President Trump’s claims of keeping the worst of the worst out of the United States.
Michael Kozak, a senior State Department diplomat, wondered in an email exchange whether, having obtained the freedom of Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S. Army veteran convicted of murdering three people in Madrid in 2016, the U.S. government might extradite him to Spain.
“Einstein on the Beach,” Robert Wilson’s influential collaboration with the composer Philip Glass from 1976. It was revived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012.