It’s fair to say Ukraine’s counteroffensive is moving slower than anticipated — but for good reason. We’ve all heard the saying, “Slow and steady wins the race.” In this case, Ukraine’s strategy is just that — a slow, steady and deliberate race to the Sea of Azov, where Ukrainians can divide Russia’s army and pummel the remnants into surrendering territory that has been occupied for months.

There’d be some considerable head-scratching if prosecutors scheduled an arraignment with a blank charging document and explained that they were still figuring out the charges and trying to find evidence. In fact, any self-respecting judge would laugh them out of court. There’s a reason that episodes of “Law &Order” begin with the investigation and end with the prosecution and not vice versa; deciding that someone must be targeted and then reverse-engineering an investigation to justify it is the province of authoritarian governments and kangaroo courts, and while the U.S. justice system is far from perfect, we commit to the principle of innocent until proven guilty.

Georgia is in the nation’s spotlight — because it has attracted a $2.5 billion investment from one of the world’s best-known solar panel makers.

On Aug. 16, Emma Cooper’s documentary “Depp v. Heard” dropped on Netflix. Despite generally scathing reviews, it quickly rose to most-watched status.

A new study is offering data to back one of the core assumptions about the spread of COVID: The intensity of exposure to the virus matters, and vaccines and prior infections can only help so much — but they do indeed help.

I spent most of the first 18 years of my life in Delhi, India, where it felt like the weather was out to get me. In the summers, it wasn’t uncommon for my friends to faint due to heatstroke in the scorching 110-degree heat.

The world has lost a true legend, and animals — as well as PETA — have lost a dear friend. Bob Barker was known for a lot of things, but what meant the most to him and what he spent most of his life pursuing was justice for animals.

Please go north. Or west. Or east.

More than three dozen House Democrats have signed a letter urging that the federal trials of former President Donald Trump be televised. The idea has merit, but these elected officials might be careful what they wish for.

Who wants the government to decide how they should raise their children? This is what opponents fear will happen if the state provides free child care: Families will be powerless, mothers will be forced to work, children will be removed from their homes.

One of the most anticipated events in the summer of 2023 was former President Donald Trump’s mug shot.

The federal government operates three gigantic systems providing health care to millions of Americans. The VA takes care of veterans, Medicaid (whose costs are shared with states and localities) is coverage for the poor and Medicare is health insurance for seniors and people with disabilities.

Despite the looming shadow of the absent frontrunner, last week’s Republican presidential primary debate did get into enough non-Donald Trump substance to establish that even the putatively mainstream part of the GOP field is still far out of line with mainstream America on major issues. Especially one that potentially affects half the population in the most intimate ways imaginable.

President Joe Biden last week interrupted his family vacation for a short visit to Hawaii to view the devastation wrought by the Maui wildfires. It was not his finest hour.

The state of the environment in California — as in the U.S. — is grim this summer. A record-breaking heat wave. The first tropical storm recorded in 84 years in the state. Another dangerous wildfire season ahead. There’s no end to the bad news. What’s the best way to cope with our collective climate anxiety?

Not putting up with the defendant’s lawyers’ garbage, Washington Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan set Donald Trump’s trial for trying to steal the 2020 election to begin on March 4. Trump’s attorneys had argued for a date in April, not a month later, but 25 months later, in 2026. Trump’s legal team didn’t flag a particular day to counter Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a Jan. 2 commencement, so assume they would have been satisfied with April 1, 2026. But Chutkan wasn’t fooled.

There are 28 million smokers in the United States. This, despite at least six decades of medical evidence supporting the ghastly damage from this habit.

If you or someone you know now has COVID (often again), you’re not alone. Infections are ticking back up, with the 7-day average of confirmed and probable infections recorded by the city breaking 700 around mid-August for the first time in months, along with a corresponding increase in hospitalizations.

Donald Trump wasn’t on the stage — the cowardly tyrant had taped a Tucker Carlson interview in which he branded the American left “savage animals” and called his Republican opponents “people that shouldn’t even be running for president” — but some of the eight candidates who did face off in the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle did a decent job channeling him.