Solutions to speed California vote count and make voting easy

Solutions to speed California vote count and make voting easy

SACRAMENTOΒ β€”Β Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants β€” like carrots and onions β€” produce seeds and people across America look on with consternation and mounting impatience as California counts its election ballots. The prolonged tally has become as much a part of electioneering in the Golden State as wall-to-wall advertising, high-flown…

Read More
Pentagon orders 2,500 troops, 3 warships from California to the Middle East

Pentagon orders 2,500 troops, 3 warships from California to the Middle East

WASHINGTONΒ β€”Β The Pentagon is reportedly sending three California-based warships and roughly 2,500 Marines to the Middle East, the second significant deployment in a week. The three warships are part of the San Diego-based USS Boxer amphibious ready group. The Marines are from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Pendleton. The deployments were reported Friday…

Read More
Trump cracks a joke about Pearl Harbor

Trump cracks a joke about Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTONΒ β€”Β Before Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi departed for Washington, she told her nation’s lawmakers that her Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Thursday would be β€œvery difficult.” Actually, it was awkward. After a reporter questioned Trump about not warning Japan before launching his β€œsurprise” offensive in Iran, Trump said that surprise was the point….

Read More
Israel kills Iran’s spy chief; government seen as ‘largely degraded’

Israel kills Iran’s spy chief; government seen as ‘largely degraded’

WASHINGTONΒ β€”Β The Iranian government remains β€œintact but largely degraded,” National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard told Congress on Wednesday, as Israel continued to hunt down the Islamic Republic’s leadership with an overnight airstrike that killed the nation’s spy chief. The death of Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, announced Wednesday by Israel, was the third high-level assassination in roughly…

Read More
Contributor: Ukraine’s aid against Iran shows who the U.S. allies really are

Contributor: Ukraine’s aid against Iran shows who the U.S. allies really are

Wars truly let you tell friend from foe. With U.S. airstrikes devastating Iran’s dangerous ballistic missile and nuclear capabilities, Iran and its proxies lashed out at American military bases, U.S. allies and sea lanes across the Middle East. Ukraine rushed to our defense. Russia, having enabled the ayatollahs for decades, continued to help Tehran. Ukraine’s…

Read More