Mudslides and rock debris force the closure of several highways
Orange County was hammered by another round of rain Wednesday as the region prepares for more storms.
Witnesses reported that so much water poured out of Laguna Canyon into downtown Laguna Beach just before dawn that swiftwater rescue units were being deployed there. One man was...
The FCC moves forward with a proposal to regulate Internet service today. It’s a bad idea.
The one thing that pleases me about the ongoing debate over Internet regulation is the durability of Tim Lee’s November, 2008 Cato Policy Analysis, “The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation.” My...
A new isolationism is metastasizing in the American body politic. At its heart lies not an urge to avoid war, but an urge to avoid contemplating the costs and realities of war. It sees war as having analgesic qualities - as lessening a collective feeling of impotence, a collective sense of fear and terror. Making war in the...
How a freak diversion of the jet stream is paralysing the globe with freezing conditions
It's snowing in Australia and California yet 'warm' in Greenland
The freezing conditions that have blasted Britain are being blamed on a series of weather patterns that are bringing Arctic temperatures to much of western Europe, California and even...
A still taken from a commercial for Kaplan University shows an empty desk on the ledge of a building. According to Education Department data, 27 percent of students at campuses owned by the for-profit school default on their student loans within three years.
Arlen Castillo had just begun an online associate's degree program at Kaplan...
