President Biden joined Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday night for a final campaign stop in Long Beach on the eve of the recall election, lending his firepower to fight against the governor’s possible ouster and underscoring the national importance of defeating the effort.

As candidates crisscross California ahead of the recall election on Sept. 14, faith communities have become a central place for proselytizing to potential voters.

*Winner of 2022 Wilbur Award

In a county where Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans, San Luis Obispo County residents delivered a sizable chunk of signatures to the statewide recall effort to oust California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Kept afloat by her orange life jacket and the bow of her family’s capsized boat, 9-year-old Desireé Rodriguez had watched helplessly as one family member after another let go of life.

A crowd of at least 20 pro-Trump demonstrators, many clad in “Make America Great Again” hats, surrounded 25-year-old Berlinda Nibo on a busy downtown Los Angeles street, she said, feet away from a gaggle of police officers

As San Francisco, like many parts of the country, grapples with how best to memorialize historic figures, the statue of the 16th president sat red-faced — literally — in front of the government building the day after Christmas.

After the Bear fire roared into town, the last remaining landmark of the tightknit mountain town Feather Falls — The Gold Flake saloon — stands untouched.

Bug experts from Washington, where the hornet was discovered in the U.S., to California agree that the 2-inch hornet is probably not worth all the buzz it has generated — at least not yet.

Although they were not allowed guns or billy clubs and were required to wear skirts and carry their radios in purses, Indianapolis Police Department’s first female officers did not shy away from wrestling with criminals or tackling them down.

Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis put the Holy Family in a caged enclosure to protest immigration detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Rockbridge Civil Discourse Society formed with the explicit intent of having political discussion – and though it may seem like an oxymoron, they are committed to being respectful and well-mannered, too.

The Maryland Democratic Party is trying to chip away at Mr. Hogan’s mild-mannered, moderate image as a host of Democrats line up to challenge and unseat the governor in next year’s election.

Today, U Street is lined with the darkened husks of once-glowing music halls.

The legacy of segregated cemeteries is seemingly everywhere in Virginia, including in Lexington. Every year, hundreds of tourists flock to Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery to pay respects to the old Confederate general. Few visitors are aware of the graveyard on the other side of town – or its storied legacy.