SoCal's wettest Christmas holiday ever, and the intensifying drought-to-deluge cycle behind it
LOS ANGELES — A year ago, officials were sounding alarms about a bone-dry winter that days later would combine with ... Read More
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Ute Indian Tribe sues Colorado for discrimination in state parks legislation
DENVER — The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation is suing Colorado for discrimination in federal court, alleging that a recently passed law denies the Tribe equal access to its ancestral lands.
That law...Read more
Georgia requests $1.4 billion to transform rural health care
ATLANTA — By New Year’s Eve, the Trump administration is scheduled to award one-time grants to states to “transform” their rural health care, and Georgia is asking for $1.4 billion.
Gov. Brian Kemp’s ...Read more
State deletes most references to Hope Florida from Medicaid contract
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Hope Florida won’t be providing loneliness services anymore.
The state has scrubbed nearly 80% of the references to Hope Florida — the controversial DeSantis administration effort to move ...Read more
2025 movie highlights: The Seattle Times critic recaps a year in rhyme
Dear readers, hi! Remember this?
Last year, alas, I was remiss —
My year-end poem took a break
But now it’s back, with rhymes to make!
It’s been my custom, at year’s close
To cast aside unmetered prose
And ...Read more
Zelenskyy says will meet with Trump, Russia reaches out to US
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he plans to meet his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump “in the coming days,” signaling optimism about reaching a peace deal to end Russia’s almost four-year war.
Separately, ...Read more
Republican defense hawks broke with Trump repeatedly in 2025
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers rarely publicly break with the Trump administration. But the GOP leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees have done so on a number of key occasions during the first year...Read more
Thailand accuses Cambodia of new attacks while negotiating peace
Thailand claimed that Cambodia fired heavy weaponry into its territory on Friday as talks on a possible ceasefire between the two countries continued.
The Cambodian action early Friday “forced the Thai side to take ...Read more
The Florida Legislature focused on cutting homestead property taxes as cities, counties raise concerns
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republicans in the Florida House are quickly moving forward on a smorgasbord of ballot initiatives that would ask voters to dramatically overhaul the state’s property taxes — deepening the anxiety...Read more
These Illinois dairy and beef farms make raising methane-belching cows part of the climate solution
CHICAGO — Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and dairy ...Read more
Guns marketed for personal safety fuel public health crisis in Black communities
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged in ...Read more
States advance medical debt protections as federal support turns to opposition
Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don’t have authority to take action on credit reporting.
...Read more
Q&A: Snow Tha Product is not afraid to crash out during the holidays
LOS ANGELES — Snow Tha Product has a lot to get off her chest this holiday season.
Trump-supporting Latinos, soulless anti-immigrant chumps and homophobic racists should steer clear of the 38-year-old rapper, who was ...Read more
Hollywood was built on movie stardom. AI is changing the rules
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Hart is almost impossible to avoid.
The stand-up comic turned actor has spent the past decade as one of Hollywood’s most bankable and visible stars, headlining megahits like the “Jumanji” films...Read more
They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can't find a job
A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say.
The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as they finish studies ...Read more
Casey Williams: Whither the 'hot hatch' in the age of electric motoring?
It’s noon, and I’m sitting in Jackson, Tennessee, a waypoint on Interstate 40 an hour east of Memphis. My husband calls and wants to know if I’ll be home in Indianapolis for dinner. I look at the Volkswagen GTI while...Read more
Editorial: Upper Basin states must be willing to comprom
The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
At the end of the year, the current agreement ...Read more
Larry Printz: The top 10 test drives of 2025
For many people, automobiles serve a purely utilitarian purpose. They are a means of transportation, a necessity, and little more than a recurring expense. Yet for most of us, they are far more than that. In their design, ...Read more
Henry Payne: The best auto features of 2025
Automobiles are rolling department stores containing everything from electronics to music to tires to wardrobe fashion. Wardrobe fashion? Check out the stylish blue leather seats in the Cadillac Optiq.
This year brought ...Read more
Commentary: US health care in 2025: Chaos, costs, and controversy without real progress
The year 2025 has been one of the most turbulent years in modern U.S. health care. The headlines were explosive, the rhetoric dramatic, and the controversies nonstop. Yet for all the hoopla and upheaval, the medical care ...Read more
A year of discovery: 10 Mayo Clinic research breakthroughs moving medicine forward
ROCHESTER, Minn. — From AI-powered drug discovery to regenerative therapies and next-generation neurology tools, Mayo Clinic researchers made significant strides in 2025 toward predicting, preventing and treating ...Read more
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