22+ hour, 24+ min ago   (701+ words) In May, with five candidates running to become Santa Cruz’s next mayor to succeed Fred Keeley, the Sentinel Editorial Board recommended city voters choose Ryan Coonerty. We continue to endorse Coonerty for this post, which essentially provides citywide leadership for…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (706+ words) By NICK INGRAM, JEFFREY COLLINS and GEOFF MULVIHILL That’s because the districts have changed fast in Missouri after the Republican-controlled legislature, encouraged by President Donald Trump, redrew its congressional map last year to give the GOP a better shot at…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (465+ words) The Trump administration’s policy of holding immigrants without a chance for release on bond is illegal and “harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” including the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (386+ words) “Hopefully he’s going to lose the Senate. He’s going to lose Congress. I hope so, and hold him accountable,” Ford said. “But we’ll see how that goes. We aren’t going to interfere in the U.S. election.” Ford has emerged…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (207+ words) By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Election officials warn that it’s impossible to comply with those terms, especially with the first mail ballots arleady being sent out in Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The panel of three judges nominated by…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (91+ words) Santa Cruz Sentinel McKee’s defeat ends his bid for a second full term and marks the first time in more than 30 years that a sitting Rhode Island governor has been beaten in a primary. Foulkes, a former senior executive at…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (610+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would likely cost…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (416+ words) By BILL BARROW and JAMIE STENGLE “This bizarre Republican midterm convention here can’t paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, said Wednesday morning. Trump organized the…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (293+ words) A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Trump “has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (745+ words) Re: “With new coaches, Cal, Stanford face pressure to win” (Page A1, Sept. 4). Jon Wilner’s Sept. 4 column on the pressures facing Cal and Stanford football fails to ask the fundamental question: Why are these elite academic institutions doing this? The concept…...