Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin is the only Black head coach in the NFL. (Ed Zurga / Associated Press) The nation’s relentless culture wars appear to have taken a toll even on the NFL, with a large number of Republicans saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve … Read more
President Clinton acknowledged on Saturday the U.S. government’s support for the widely despised military junta that ruled Greece more than 25 years ago, but he stopped short of apologizing outright for Washington’s letting Cold War concerns obscure a moral obligation to oppose a dictatorship. The support that the American government gave to the regime of … Read more
As political appointees go, San Fernando Valley car dealer Bert Boeckmann is a survivor. Despite his conservative politics and close ties to anti-establishment groups seeking to break up Los Angeles and the city school district, Boeckmann showed again last week that he remains a player in the liberal-leaning Los Angeles City Hall. New Democratic Mayor … Read more
They came from all over the world, journalists from 17 media organizations representing 14 countries and five continents, to collect the prize they had sought for months: about 10 minutes of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s time. Deluged since his inaugural by hundreds of requests from foreign journalists to interview California’s foreign-born governor, Schwarzenegger’s aides declared Friday … Read more
A patient has blood drawn at a community health center in Burton, W. Va. (AFP/Getty Images) Among the most important — and little understood — new insurance rules put in place by the Affordable Care Act was a requirement that health plans cover a basic set of benefits. The requirement was part of a package … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the NCAA college football game between Army and Navy at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (Stephanie Scarbrough / Associated Press) ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ … Read more
President Trump visits the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio, earlier this year to address employees. (Craig J. Orosz / Associated Press) During President Trump’s first two years in office, his standing with many voters was buoyed by a surge in manufacturing that helped create millions of jobs and undergirded the whole U.S. economy. … Read more
On this day 226 years ago — July 26, 1784 — Benjamin Franklin considered whether society was in need of a “remedy for luxury” in a letter to his trusted advisor, Benjamin Vaughn. In it, Franklin methodically argued against such a need. The current growing clamor for the regulation of wealth makes Franklin’s thoughts on … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump at a rally in West Allis, Wis. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Donald Trump promotes himself as a man divorced from party ideology, a president-elect just as open-minded to input from Al Gore as from Newt Gingrich. But with his Cabinet nearly complete, he has chosen one of the most consistently conservative … Read more
Mentally disabled workers are helping prepare for November’s election by cleaning polling booths and inspecting balloting machines–a jobs breakthrough that advocates hope could lead to more county contracts in the future. The Ventura County elections office has contracted with ARC-Ventura County for disabled workers to wipe smudges and dirt from 4,000 polling booths and to … Read more
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