Climate & Environment
Gov. Newsom wants to mandate minimum supplies of gasoline at California-based refineries as a hedge against price spikes.
World & Nation
Dutch King Willem-Alexander, a mostly ceremonial monarch, summarized the wide-ranging policy blueprint for the coming year and beyond.
Sept. 17, 2024
The Dutch government says it wants out of the rules, or even as one of the world’s wealthiest nations it would struggle to provide public services.
Sept. 18, 2024
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen puts women in many of the top roles on her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc.
Opinion
Climate change has been doing a job on many of California’s wild areas. This time, it looks like an Orange County work crew teamed up with a warming planet to deprive a metropolitan area of its best access to nature.
Sept. 12, 2024
Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, and a review finds they were backed by a shadowy group.
Sept. 16, 2024
Lifestyle
In ‘The Morrison Game Factory,’ Lauren Bello created an affecting, story-driven tabletop game about an abandoned board game factory — a tale of love and loss.
New clothes are fun, especially when the price is right. But how long can we support fast fashion with its bad-for-environment, bad-for-workers infrastructure?
Housing & Homelessness
Step Up On Second Street helped inspire California’s Project Homekey to convert hotels into housing; now it denies responsibility for missing money and failed projects.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken calls the move important for Mideast stability and U.S. national security priorities, including trying to broker a cease-fire and hostage deal in Gaza.