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Back in 1983, the Supreme Court declared that "a person traveling in an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another." That increasingly doubtful proposition underpins a nationwide network of more than 144,000 AI-assisted cameras that track the travels of innocent ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The California governor's race was supposed to be about the cost of living. Instead, it became a group therapy session about the price of identity.

Here in my home state, with three weeks to go until the polls open on Nov. 3, we should be discussing inflation, gas prices, and the lack of affordable housing. Instead, we're ...Read more

At the beginning of October, my pastor held a special program that we called our version of "Octoberfest," spelling it differently from the traditional German folk Oktoberfest held in September. Oktoberfest activities in Columbus, Ohio, included live entertainment, kids' games and a paint-and-sip session. For our church festivities, we ...Read more

I got to my 89-year-old mother’s home just in the nick of time.

She’d been using her computer when her screen locked and a large image appeared:

“You’ve been compromised,” the red letters said. “Call Microsoft immediately at 800-xxx-xxxx!”

She was on the phone with the fake tech support agent when I arrived.

New era of AI scams...Read more

Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution presented evidence that he tucked white envelopes full ...Read more

After Tennessee unsuccessfully tried to execute Christa Pike last week, an ambulance whisked her to a Nashville hospital, where the condemned murderer became a patient in urgent need of lifesaving care. Should Pike recover from two botched administrations of pentobarbital, which left her unconscious and unable to breathe on her own, she might ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Cornell University obviously doesn't offer students a course on how to make good decisions. Because based on what we know about an alleged gang rape of a young woman in the fall of 2024 by members of a fraternity on the Ivy League campus, it's obvious that all the students involved behaved badly.

This story isn't just disgusting....Read more

I shared the September PBS NewsHour report "Is the American Dream still achievable for younger generations?" with my English composition students this week as we begin our Gen Z and the Workplace theme for their second research essay. I found this report, which is part of PBS senior correspondent Judy Woodruff's continuing "Crossroads: America...Read more

More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma.

This fall Iowa began giving its version — a multiple-choice test drawn from the same exam immigrants must pass.

Only 60% of the more than 100 Burlington students who took it passed on the first try. In surveys, the average ...Read more

As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And yet, if there has ever been a politician who has ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- This week's California gubernatorial debate on CNN wasn't just dreadful. At times, it was downright painful.

As a native of the Golden State, I have to ask: With 33 days until the Nov. 3 election, is it too late to consider more applicants?

In a state that is home to nearly 40 million people, and which boasts the world's fourth-...Read more

Half a century ago, Congress approved the Controlled Substances Act, which established a system for classifying drugs based on their "medical use" and "potential for abuse." But as a recent report from the Government Accountability Office notes, the statute does not clearly define either criterion, opening the door to debatable and changeable ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- What's going on with Gavin Newsom?

Earlier this month, in a conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper that took place in a freezing-cold river in Montana where the two regular guys were supposedly fly-fishing, the 58-year-old California governor caught what he was really angling for: attention.

Newsom told Tapper that he would not run...Read more

I can’t wait to live in a condo again — because I’m addicted to long, hot showers.

Currently, I own a house and I have to pay for every extra ounce of water I use. In the condo, I will have help.

You see, there are 40 owners in my condo association, so I will pay only one-fortieth of the water bill, the gas to heat it and the sewage to ...Read more

During Pope Leo XIV's four-day visit to France, he was asked by reporters to share his thoughts on what the United States and China should do to prevent artificial intelligence from acting independently in a way that would threaten our everyday existence. He was very direct in his response, stating, "We can't just sit back and pretend nothing ...Read more

The home of Dwight Eisenhower and Amelia Earhart is rarely part of the national conversation -- but that could be about to change. It is becoming clear that the race for Senate this year could be a huge upset. In the 19th century, Kansas was the scene of violent clashes over slavery, which temporarily earned it the moniker "bleeding Kansas," ...Read more