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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

It’s trapping season

It’s trapping season

Cal Thomas August 22, 2012 4:00 am

Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd playing GOP convention

Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd playing GOP convention

Paul Bedard August 22, 2012 4:00 am

Akin mess could be watershed moment for conservative movement

Philip Klein August 22, 2012 12:00 am

Who’s sorry about the Roberts ruling now?

Who’s sorry about the Roberts ruling now?

Noemie Emery August 21, 2012 4:00 am

A gas price emergency — for America, or for Obama

A gas price emergency — for America, or for Obama

Diana Furchtgott-Roth August 21, 2012 4:00 am

A man blows a kiss to Navy sailors marching in uniform during the gay pride parade Saturday, July 21, 2012, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

GOP platform cuts gay rights in military

Paul Bedard August 21, 2012 4:00 am

Alaina Carnan of Lexington, Ky., works in the Senate campaign office of U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 in Chesterfield, Mo. Akin has come under pressure to abandon his Senate compaign after his comments that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape". (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)

In Missouri, Democrats got the nominee they wanted

Sean Higgins August 21, 2012 4:00 am

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Michelle O: No, women can’t have it all

Paul Bedard August 21, 2012 4:00 am

President Obama answers reporters' questions during a news conference. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Poll: Media bias worse than money in politics

Paul Bedard August 21, 2012 4:00 am

Mo.’s Danforth, Ashcroft, Bond, Talent tell Akin to go

Mo.’s Danforth, Ashcroft, Bond, Talent tell Akin to go

Paul Bedard August 21, 2012 4:00 am

A U.S member of Combined Joint Task Force-101 filling out voter absentee ballot at a US military base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Military set to log worst voting participation ever

Paul Bedard August 21, 2012 4:00 am

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said God urged the group's security guard not to kill the attacker who shot him. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Shot FRC guard: God said don’t kill attacker

Paul Bedard August 20, 2012 4:00 am