Lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by former staffer countersues
In the latest development in a salacious Sacramento legal saga, a California state senator this week filed a countercomplaint against her former chief of staff…
Biden to meet South Korean, Japanese leaders amid worries on North Korea
LIMA, Peru — President Biden is gathering with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for talks Friday amid heightened concerns about…
What are recess appointments and how could Trump use them?
WASHINGTON — As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet…
California removes slur from state location names
Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from more than 30 geographic features and place names on California lands, according to an…
Trump picks his criminal defense lawyer as deputy attorney general
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Todd Blanche, an attorney who led the legal team that defended the Republican at his hush money criminal trial,…
Trump’s pick for Defense chief was investigated for alleged sexual assault
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in the city…
Higher monthly payments loom for many student loan borrowers
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week should bring some clarity to Americans with student loans, but probably not in the way they’d hoped.A flurry of…
Jimmy Kimmel roasts Elon Musk. Trump makes absurd Cabinet choices.
Has your news media moratorium lifted yet? I suppose that’s a moot question since you’re reading this. Let me take this moment to thank you…
Senate will block Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz, predicts Kevin McCarthy
WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general would be rejected by the Republican…
Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting…
Trump’s Cabinet picks will test Senate independence.
WASHINGTON — Since he began taking over the Republican Party nearly a decade ago, President-elect Donald Trump has demanded increasing levels of loyalty from lawmakers…
Trump pick Matt Gaetz would be the anti-attorney general
How detrimental will President-elect Donald Trump’s second term be to the rule of law? We got the answer with Wednesday’s announcement of his intent to…
The LAPD’s new chief wants residents to start calling the police again
Crime is trending down in Los Angeles, with homicides alone on track to fall 15% compared to last year, but newly sworn-in LAPD Chief Jim…
Democrat Janelle Bynum flips Oregon district in historic election
PORTLAND, Ore. — Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District and will become the state’s first Black member of Congress.Bynum, a state representative who…
Opinion: Harris’ real error — not bros, not Biden, not the border
Democrats are blaming Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris on everything from fake news that immigrants were eating American house pets to Elon Musk’s alleged…
Opinion: Evangelical Christians’ long road to Donald Trump
We don’t yet know the precise numbers, but it appears once again that four out of five white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the…
Analysis: Trump transition moves raise fears of politicized military
WASHINGTON — Critics of President-elect Donald Trump have long contended that he aspires to use the U.S. military — a nonpartisan force, by rule and tradition…
Ysabel Jurado vanquished Kevin de León. Will winning change her?
Ysabel Jurado had every reason to gloat when I caught up with her earlier this week at the Highland Park home she shares with her…
Opinion: Trump’s border czar and a history we should not forget
Donald Trump promised that, once reelected, he would conduct the largest deportation campaign in United States history. That pledge is already taking shape with his…
Green hydrogen or greenwashing? Mojave water scheme takes new twist
Cadiz Inc. has been called a “zombie,” a “poison pill” and a scheme to “suck the desert dry” by draining a delicate groundwater aquifer north…