What to know about the trade deal with the UK
WASHINGTON — A trade deal with the United Kingdom announced by the White House on Thursday marked the first of its kind since President Trump launched sweeping…
Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege ” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions about its mistaken deportation of…
House follows Trump lead with vote to change Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update…
Sen. John Fetterman raises alarms with outburst at meeting with union officials
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.Before…
Facing self-imposed budget cuts, Republicans in Congress mull the future of Medicaid
Congress is forging ahead with its budget for next year, but the most controversial program on the chopping block — Medicaid — is causing a…
Warren Buffett’s successor got his start selling clean energy. Now he defends coal
Warren Buffett has invested tens of billions of dollars in fossil fuels, propping up some of the nation’s dirtiest coal plants as well as major…
Meet Casey Means, L.A. holistic doctor and Trump surgeon general pick
President Trump’s choice of Dr. Casey Means, a Los Angeles holistic medicine doctor and wellness influencer, as his nominee for surgeon general appears to mark…
Newsom’s White House chances undermined by tepid California poll
The Newsom for President bandwagon hit another rut this week.A new poll by the L.A. Times and UC Berkeley found California’s registered voters believe —…
2020 Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren holds L.A. town hall
Elizabeth Warren had the crowd going wild over pennies.Halfway through her Wednesday campaign event in Los Angeles, the crowd erupted into a chant of “Two…
What is the ‘Northern Triangle,’ key to Biden immigration policy?
WASHINGTON — The label “Northern Triangle” is in the news again as the Biden administration focuses on reducing illegal immigration from the three countries that make up…
Trump quits the Paris climate accord, denouncing it as a violation of U.S. sovereignty
Reporting from Washington — The U.S. will pull out of the Paris accord on global warming, President Trump announced Thursday, offering a statement of unabashed nationalism as…
Vindication for fired U.S. attorney
As one of the nine U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006, I have been carefully monitoring the train wreck that followed. I…
These California lawmakers don’t live in the districts they represent
It was the spring of 1998. Then-Assemblywoman Grace F. Napolitano was in the middle of a heated battle with fellow Democrat Jamie Casso.With the primary…
Facebook and real estate developer pitch state lawmakers on speedier environmental review cases
Sacramento — Facebook executives and a New York developer are hoping that their major development projects could get built years sooner than planned under last-minute legislation at…
Bilingual education has been absent from California public schools for almost 20 years. But that may soon change
Reporting from Sacramento — Ricardo Lara was in college when California voters approved a law that required public school students to speak and learn only in English.…
Looking at Bosnia, Clinton Sees Only Hard, Ugly Choices : Diplomacy: The Clinton team criticized the Vance-Owen plan as a sellout to Serbian rapists. But now they would be lucky to get it.
Walter Russell Mead, a contributing editor to Opinion, is now working on a book on U.S. foreign policy for the Twentieth Century Fund. NEW ORLEANS — The…
States sue over Trump blocking billions of dollars for EV charging
SACRAMENTO — Seventeen states are suing President Trump’s administration for withholding billions of dollars in funding for the build-out of electric vehicle chargers, according to a…
After exam fiasco, California State Bar faces deeper financial crisis
The California State Bar’s botched roll out of a new exam — a move that the cash-strapped agency made in the hopes of saving money…
Trump plans to announce that the U.S. will call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf…
Conspiracy in Benefit Plans Probed : FBI, Labor Department Study Union Health Contracts
WASHINGTON — An alleged coast-to-coast criminal conspiracy that has defrauded the employee benefit plans of major labor unions is being investigated by a joint task force of…