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“Miracle” is perhaps too strong a word, but it is a major marvel that in the current poisonous, take-no-prisoners atmosphere of Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee produced a complicated — 800-plus pages — and comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration ...

So, there I am coaching third base for my 9-year-old son’s Little League team. Man on second, one out. The batter hits a ground ball to third, the fielder promptly boots it so I send the runner in to home ...

Something comes over the residents of the nation’s capital when the flowers bloom in the spring: The urge to steal them.

“The happiest paintbrushes are the worn-through ones.” These are the words of a young man who, long before earning a university minor in painting, took a summer art class at age 12 from Chris Martinez.

To many Ventura County residents, this three-day weekend hails the traditional beginning of summer. To others, it marks the start of the danger season on highways.

What is more fundamental to childhood than having a family and home where a child may grow and thrive in safety, love and in support?

California saw plenty of change to its congressional delegation last year, with the long-serving likes of Fortney “Pete” Stark (East Bay Area), David Dreier (San Dimas), Jerry Lewis (Redlands), Joe Baca (San Bernardino County), Elton Gallegly (Simi Valley), Mary Bono ...

On days when the president is coming, the White House press room, the East Room and even occasionally the Rose Garden are ornamented with dozens of objects that perform the decorative and utilitarian purpose of potted plants.

Apple is best known for the brilliance of its technological wizardry. But when Senate investigators finish examining its financial practices, the electronics giant may be best known for its brilliance in legal tax avoidance.

In this season of final exams, graduations and other milestones, Ventura College is seeing a big change of its own in the president’s office.

California, it’s now acknowledged, has a glut of lawyers.

Just about everything about Pope Francis rings true. A mere two months into his papacy, he has shed many of the Roman Catholic Church’s gaudy and inapt symbols of materialism and returned the philosophical focus to where Jesus Christ would ...

“Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymath philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign policy community are no exception.