Newsom stays in the background amid California campus protests
SACRAMENTO — In May 1969 a National Guard helicopter hung over the campus of UC Berkeley, spraying protesters with what The Times then described as “heavy…
SACRAMENTO — In May 1969 a National Guard helicopter hung over the campus of UC Berkeley, spraying protesters with what The Times then described as “heavy…
WASHINGTON — Three former presidents endorsed legislation Wednesday to ban the future manufacture, sale and possession of combat-style assault weapons as a closely divided House neared…
1 of 4 | John Hinckley Jr. is flanked by federal agents as he is driven away from court April 10, 1981. On March 30,…
For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, residents of the rest of the country often saw California as the place their wacky or adventurous…
Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that’s one…
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DES MOINES — Despite the Iowa caucuses taking place 1,700 miles away from California — and the temperature being much colder here — the Golden State,…
WASHINGTON — President Reagan asked today for the resignations of Cabinet members and thousands of political appointees to give President-elect George Bush flexibility in shaping his…
In Conservative Internationalism, Henry R. Nau – a former Reagan administration official and Professor Emeritus at George Washington University – has set himself a peculiar…
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to ascend to the high court and its most influential jurist for much of her…
SACRAMENTO — It’s the job of a governor to play adult supervisor and not give adolescent state legislators all the spending money they’d like. Otherwise, they’d…
SACRAMENTO — The Republican Party will hold a presidential candidate debate at the Ronald Reagan library Wednesday. It’s a bad fit. The GOP’s modern idol is…
In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in the city of Kansas City, US government technicians refurbish the nation's nuclear warheads.The job is exacting:…
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden took another step toward locking up the Democratic nomination on Tuesday. His lead in delegates has begun to look insurmountable. But now…
They were two men seemingly destined for bigger, better things and, perhaps eventually, a head-to-head race for the White House. One was California’s governor, who…
The visit comes as the US and Vietnam look to deepen ties amid concerns about China’s growing regional strength. The United States’ aircraft carrier Ronald…
Nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan is only the third US aircraft carrier to visit Vietnam since the war ended in 1975. The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and…
SANTA BARBARA — President Reagan, in his strongest language on the subject to date, on Saturday denounced the nation’s welfare system as “misguided” and said that…
The candidate strides to the podium and launches into his attack on his state’s educational system. Students are being “indoctrinated” with leftist propaganda by radical…