The selection of Sanae Takaichi as Japan’s 104th prime minister is remarkable in many respects, but none more so than it shatters the glass ceiling for women in Nagatacho’s upper echelons of power. At ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has used emergency funds and other methods to plug deficits. He unveiled his revised budget in Sacramento on May 14, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters Welcome to CalMatters, ...

The Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation has donated $1.4 million to Great Falls College Montana State University to establish a first-of-its-kind grid operator training program. The donation will ...

At The Dunbar Store, a small grocery store off Route 1 in Sullivan, Maine, Graham Platner has a very specific nickname. “We called him ‘footlong ham and cheese guy,’” Josh Winer, Dunbar’s owner, says.