America’s attitude toward allies leading up to the Iran war was the geopolitical equivalent of a slogan on a jacket once notoriously sported by first lady Melania Trump: “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” ...

Falling birth rates for unmarried women is good, but the unmarried baby boom was covering up a larger decline in fertility ...

An 18-year-old West Palm Beach boy was arrested in connection with a December 28 shooting at the Quail Lakes Drive apartment complex.

Contra Costa County high school officials face uphill battle to curb pot use. Marijuana vaping is so rampant at a high school in ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will seek to crack down on offshore call centers and illegal robocalls from ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters after Sri Lanka’s Navy said it rescued more than two dozen people from an ...

In a new wave of attacks, Israel said it was launching more strikes across Tehran as well as against what it described as Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut. Follow live updates.

Contra Costa voters will decide in June whether they're willing to pay a new sales tax to help offset the Trump administration's cuts to Medicaid.

If approved by a simple majority of voters, the measure would raise about $150 million annually in additional revenue.

The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.

Before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Washington assembled its largest force and some of its most powerful weaponry in the Middle East in decades.

Goddamn Ike and Churchill, and the Dulles brothers, and all the smart boys in the CIA, with their Operation Ajax, and goddamn ...