Council lifts ban on vending near popular L.A. locations
With nearly 100 street vendors sitting in the audience, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to lift bans on vending in seven high-traffic areas…
Worse than you can imagine: Haley loses to ‘none of these candidates’ in Nevada
“Trump’s supporters will follow that man through the gates of hell,” said Chuck Muth, a former Nevada Republican Party executive director and conservative activist and…
Border security, Ukraine aid deal collapses despite Biden pleas
WASHINGTON — A Senate deal on border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid suffered a swift and total collapse Tuesday as Republicans withdrew support despite President Biden…
Greece’s Mitsotakis makes progressive pivot with same-sex marriage bill – POLITICO
Given that traditional family values would normally be the preserve of Mitsotakis’ conservative New Democracy party, it does beg the question of what he’s up…
The ‘none of these candidates’ option wins Nevada GOP primary, a symbolic rejection of Nikki Haley
LAS VEGAS — The “none of these candidates” option has won in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary contest, an embarrassing result for Nikki Haley, who was…
Biden wins Nevada primary with virtually no opposition
Biden faced nearly no opposition in Nevada, after Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) failed to file to appear on the ballot last year. The next Democratic…
House vote to impeach Homeland Security’s Mayorkas fails
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic setback, House Republicans failed Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, forced to shelve a high-profile priority — for…
Reporter sues Kansas town and various officials over police raid on her newspaper
But the lawsuit alleges Cody was “infuriated” that the newspaper was investigating his background before he became Marion’s chief in May 2023. It also said…
Ill-fitting gear endangers female firefighters, supervisors say
When a female firefighter in Los Angeles County rushes into a burning building to save a life, she must deal with an extra challenge her…
Is there life on Mars? Congressional gridlock is getting in the way of an answer.
Nelson noted that an independent review board is examining the future of the sample return program, which aims to bring rocks and dust collected by…
Court’s rebuke of Trump could put Jan. 6 trial back on track
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ denial of Donald Trump’s immunity claim Tuesday was comprehensive and emphatic — so much so that it could put…
Biden gets handed an immigration policy opening from the GOP. Can he take it?
Biden wasted little time. Before cameras at the White House on Tuesday, he promised to take the GOP opposition to the bill “to the country”…
L.A. County will redact racist restrictive covenant language
The requirements to live on the San Fernando Valley lots were clear in 1915. Any building, including the roof, must have two coats of paint.…
Tucker Carlson confirms he’s interviewing Vladimir Putin – POLITICO
News of Carlson’s visit first broke at the weekend after the Mash Telegram channel, rumored to have links to Russian law enforcement, reported he’d been…
Hate the storm? Start getting serious about climate change
You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense…
King Charles III’s cancer ‘caught early,’ says PM Rishi Sunak – POLITICO
Buckingham Palace announced Monday evening that hospital tests carried out on Charles during treatment for an enlarged prostate had identified a form of cancer. The…
ICE kept a California immigrant in solitary for two years
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used solitary confinement at its detention facilities more than 14,000 times between 2018 and 2023, including one California immigrant…
King Charles has cancer. So what happens next?
Britain’s ‘unwritten’ constitution is unusually clear on the political arrangements if a monarch is too sick to work. Source link
D.C. appellate court rejects Trump’s immunity claim
WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia appellate court panel on Thursday unanimously rejected former President Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on criminal charges…
Biden confuses Macron with Mitterrand (who died in 1996) – POLITICO
U.S. President Joe Biden confused Emmanuel Macron, the current French president, with François Mitterrand, who led France from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.…