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Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, California.

Utility companies want to shift risks on struggling families

Todd Snitchler · July 22, 2026 9:00 am

Reenactors at Mount Vernon in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon.)

On This Day: Washington fears a ‘great deficiency’ in weapons

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

Steelers, civic leaders, and Gov. Josh Shapiro break records and pull off flawless Day 1 of NFL Draft

"The embroidered Queenaas Crown badge and the Union Jack flag, the flag of the United Kingdom whom Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned over, along with the British Commonwealth, for 60 years from February 6th 1952 to February 2012."

When Charles III meets King Donald

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a "Women for Trump" placard during a rally at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 2016. / AFP / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump to corporate America: Kiss my a**, please

Ann Romney is the leader of those trying to help show off hubby Mitt's likable side. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Advisor: Romney stinks at being a politician

Paul Bedard August 28, 2012 4:00 am

This undated image provided by Rocky Mountain Pictures, shows an undated film clip from "2016: Obama's America". Hollywood may have run out of summer hits, but an anti-Obama documentary is helping fill the gap. "2016: Obama's America"was expanded from limited to nationwide release and took in $6.2 million to finish at No. 8,Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rocky Mountain Pictures)

‘2016’: Conspiricists’ movie

Sean Higgins August 28, 2012 4:00 am

GOP fight erupts over ‘disavowing’ Paul delegates

GOP fight erupts over ‘disavowing’ Paul delegates

Paul Bedard August 28, 2012 4:00 am

Leno cheers Obama’s ‘war on women’ charge against GOP

Leno cheers Obama’s ‘war on women’ charge against GOP

Paul Bedard August 28, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leaves Wolfeboro, N.H. For a man basing his presidential hopes on a jobs-and-economy message, Mitt Romney has spent an inordinate amount of time talking about other issues, from abortion to Medicare to weather. Many of those distractions have been beyond his control while others were his own doing. GOP strategists, fearing precious time lost, are now eager to use the convention to regain control of the message -- at least for three days. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Republican convention is the place to humanize Romney

Mona Charen August 28, 2012 4:00 am

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, arrive at Brewster Academy, for convention preparations, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Romney’s big chance

Cal Thomas August 27, 2012 4:00 am

Speaker Boehner: Slash convention, party platform

Paul Bedard August 27, 2012 4:00 am

The rich don’t pay enough?

The rich don’t pay enough?

Walter Williams August 27, 2012 4:00 am

Barbour warns: Whiny Obama is a joke

Barbour warns: Whiny Obama is a joke

Paul Bedard August 27, 2012 4:00 am

Signage for the Republican National Convention hangs at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. The RNC is scheduled to convene on August 27 and will hold its first session on August 28 as Tropical Storm Isaac threatens disruptions due to its proximity to the Florida peninsula. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

GOP set to OK most pro-gun platform ever

Paul Bedard August 27, 2012 4:00 am

NASCAR speeds by Democratic Convention

NASCAR speeds by Democratic Convention

Paul Bedard August 27, 2012 4:00 am

A Republican party volunteer standing next to a cardboard cut out of former President Ronald Reagan soliciate newly naturalized U.S. citizens to register to vote in voter registration booth sponsored by the Republican Party in Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Romney copying Reagan’s 1980 path to victory

Paul Bedard August 27, 2012 4:00 am