Letters to the Editor: Trump didn’t win a big mandate. Challenge his Cabinet picks

Donald Trump with Tulsi Gabbard during a campaign town hall in Wisconsin on Aug. 29. (Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press) To the editor: President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections that have raised eyebrows even among conventional Republicans include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and … Read more

Letters to the Editor: Hooray for L.A. County voters passing Measure G for a better government

The L.A. County flag flies above the Progress Pride flag at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles in 2023. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: After decades of population growth and several efforts to reform Los Angeles County government in response, voters passed Measure G, supporting historic reforms … Read more

Inside Sonny and Cher’s secretly dark relationship — and how Lucille Ball encouraged her to leave him

Cher lifts the lid on her troubled marriage to Sonny Bono – and reveals how she came close to killing herself during their time together. Bettmann Archive Cher was so distraught over her “loveless marriage” to Sonny Bono that she contemplated throwing herself off the balcony of a Las Vegas hotel room — one of “five … Read more

Opinion: I spoke to college students after the election. Here’s how to make them care more about politics

Vice President Kamala Harris with students at George Washington University on Jan. 16, 2023. Some young voters found her campaign messaging inauthentic. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press) We are a few weeks removed from the election, and Democrats do not appear to be any closer to truly understanding why they lost so much ground to … Read more

Democrat Danica Roem unseats Republican incumbent to become Virginia’s first openly transgender House member

A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist, is set to make history as the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a state legislature in the United States. She unseated Republican Del. Bob … Read more

With Trump vowing deportations, workers in Los Angeles race the clock for a reprieve

Staff and volunteers at the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance help immigrant workers apply to a federal program that grants temporary work permits for people who are undocumented. (Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times) A line of immigrant workers formed outside an office building in Koreatown on a recent Friday afternoon. They followed makeshift signs to … Read more

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