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Trump says ‘Housing First’ failed the homeless. Here’s what the evidence says.

December 26, 2025 at 4:05 a.m.

When the Trump administration announced plans last month to redistribute billions of dollars in homelessness aid, the move capped a conservative attack on the once-bipartisan philosophy that has guided federal...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a media conference during the EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

Why Russia is likely to reject the new U.S.-Ukrainian peace plan

December 26, 2025 at 4:04 a.m.

On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine presented a 20-point peace plan formulated by Ukrainian and U.S. officials that was a significant departure from a plan drawn up in October...

Cars wait at an intersection with no working traffic lights from power outages, in San Francisco, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Waymo cars stopped, blocking traffic, during San Francisco power outage

December 22, 2025 at 8:39 a.m.

Social media was littered with videos of the vehicles at blocked intersections with their hazard lights blinking.

Power restored for most of San Francisco after widespread outage

December 22, 2025 at 4:20 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO — Power was restored for tens of thousands of electricity customers in San Francisco late Saturday, after an hourslong outage affecting nearly a third of the city left...

Lou Cannon, veteran Washington Post reporter, former Contra Costa Times editor and state bureau chief for the†San Jose Mercury News, at Black Oak Books in Berkeley on Thursday, Feb. 5, 1998. Cannon, who explored the enigmas of Ronald Reagan in biographies, died on Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 92. (Bob Pepping/Bay Area News Group archive)

Lou Cannon, Reagan biographer and Mercury News reporter, dies at 92

December 20, 2025 at 10:42 a.m.

A celebrated journalist and author, Lou Cannon covered Reagan for decades, first in California during the first of Reagan’s two terms as governor, and then as the senior White House...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, enter a hall for their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (Roman Naumov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Smiles and clasped hands as Xi, Putin and Modi try to signal unity

September 1, 2025 at 11:12 a.m.

China wants to seize on the unpopularity of the United States’ chaotic trade policies to drive a wedge between Washington and the rest of the world, arguing that it can...

FILE — William Webster at the door to his office in Washington, Nov. 12, 2002. Webster, the only person ever to lead both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, switching from lawman to spymaster while the bureau was investigating high crimes at the White House and the C.I.A., has died. He was 101. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

William H. Webster, who ran the FBI and the CIA, dies at 101

August 9, 2025 at 3:07 p.m.

Webster said that it took several years before he could control “the Hoover hard hats,” as he called the old guard, and wrestle the FBI into the realm of the...

Demonstrators hold signs against the U.S. strikes against Iran in Washington, June 22, 2025. Before he ordered strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump did not seek permission from Congress, to which the U.S. Constitution grants the sole power to declare war. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Is the U.S. at war with Iran? Who has power of declaration?

June 24, 2025 at 4:20 a.m.

Many Democrats and even some Republicans say that the attack was tantamount to a declaration of war and that Trump acted illegally.

Bill Atkinson, seen here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View in 2010, has died at the age of 74. The legendary Apple designer created the software that enabled the transformative visual approach pioneered by the company’s Lisa and Macintosh computers, making the machines accessible to millions of users without specialized skills.

Bill Atkinson dies at 74; Apple pioneer made computers easier to use

June 10, 2025 at 11:36 a.m.

“His code was remarkable. It is what made the Macintosh possible."

FILE — A member of the Texas National Guard at the border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas on March 5, 2025, during a visit by Vice President JD Vance. The Department of Homeland Security has requested more than 20,000 National Guard members to help with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. If approved, one official said, it would be the first time National Guard troops were used in a direct role. (Scott Ball/The New York Times)

Department of Homeland Security requests 20,000 National Guard members to help with immigration crackdown

May 15, 2025 at 11:59 a.m.

The moves to bolster immigration enforcement capacity are part of a wider push to increase deportations and arrests to meet Trump’s promises of “mass deportations,” which the administration has not...

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