California Set for New Year’s Buzz With Recreational Marijuana Sales

1, launching yet another chapter in America’s drug culture and the largest regulated commercial market for cannabis in the United States – one valued at … On Monday, California will become the sixth U.S. state, and by far the most populous, to legalize, regulate and tax sales of recreational marijuana – a …

Roy Moore’s defeat in the Alabama Senate race tells us that charges of sexual improprieties can be a potent political weapon. This is not good news for President Trump, whom several women accuse of past misbehavior. It is also not good news for women who become victims of serious attacks or of rape.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump said Thursday that he believes Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, will treat him fairly, contradicting some members of his party who have waged a weekslong campaign to try to discredit Mr. Mueller and the continuing inquiry.

Freezing temperatures, below-zero wind chills sock much of northern US, setting record in Minnesota city so cold it’s called Icebox of the Nation; Erie, … Freezing temperatures and below-zero wind chills socked much of the northern United Stateson Wednesday, and the snow-hardened city of Erie, Pa., dug …

Above all, Mr. Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable. That is a seminal change from the role the country has played for 70 years, under presidents from both …

The annual national count of homeless people in the U.S. has risen for first time since 2010, and officials say the booming West Coast economy is a main … The U.S.Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the …

The Dutch retirement savings system, considered one of the world’s best, is built around defined-benefit workplace pensions — as the U.S. system used to be. But while some pension funds are affiliated with a single company, such as Royal Dutch Shell PLC or Koninklijke Philips NV, industry-wide pension …

HUAIROU, China—For the coming Chinese action thriller “Bodies at Rest,” director Renny Harlin pulled one move straight from his Hollywood repertoire. In the scene, a doctor and a medical intern reunite after a harrowing night of fighting criminals who broke into their morgue. Mr. Harlin wanted the kind of …