Jim Carlton

Crisco, occasionally seen frolicking with pet dogs, has become bucket-list lore. Some residents say the goat resembles ZZ Top’s guitarist—he agrees.

A baby boomer paradise erupted in red-blue political strife, from dueling newspaper columns to a fitness-center fracas. A “Civility Task Force” was launched to address general unrest.

Arizona’s Maricopa County is an epicenter of threats against election officials. ‘It feels very dystopian,’ said the county’s top official for voting by mail.

The Harris and Trump campaigns are evangelizing their economic remedies across Nevada, focusing heavily on metropolitan Reno.

In Nevada, where the U.S. government controls more than 80% of the land, cattlemen and farmers see Donald Trump as an ally in their fight for more access. Conservationists are readying their resistance.

As co-director of President-elect Donald Trump’s nascent Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has wasted no time posting to his 205 million followers on X about specific government departments he views as bloated. One recent post by the billionaire zeroed in on Ashley Thomas, a little-known director of climate diversification at the U.S. International Development Finance Corp., after another user on Musk’s social-media platform X questioned her role.

As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback.

With a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Portland State University recently launched Project Thrive within our School of Social Work, for Advanced MSW students interested in careers in school-based mental health. This opportunity includes specialized training and second year practicum in high-need middle and high schools in rural, tribal and predominantly LatinX communities. A $10,000 stipend will be provided during the advanced year practicum for students committed to a career in school-based mental health service provision, and who agree to work in this role for a minimum of one year upon graduation from the MSW program.

The notorious criminal suspect in an orange jumpsuit who shouted wildly about injustice outside a central Pennsylvania jail on Tuesday appeared to be light years removed from the smiling University of Pennsylvania graduate he was a few short years ago.

Students lacking permanent legal status are scrambling to prepare in case an immigration crackdown hits campuses.