Ramon Espinosa / APPeople illuminate themselves with their phones while playing dominoes as a fire, set up by residents protesting...

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Yesterday in California, the physical world and the world of free-floating grievance and ideological bluster met once again, when two...

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A pair of Air Force refueling planes were flying high over Iraq two weeks into the U.S. and Israeli war...

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By 10 a.m. yesterday, the line of people wishing to dedicate America to God was more than three hours long....

In 1971, Richard Nixon announced his plan to visit Beijing—marking a geopolitical turning point, as the trip would be the...