Politics

Former President Trump speaks during his debate with President Biden in June in Atlanta. (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press) Kamala Harris. Donald Trump. Gish Gallop. All three are expected at Tuesday’s presidential debate, even if most of America is unfamiliar with one name in that lineup. GG, as I’ve come to call it, is a … Read more

Political activist and former state legislator Tom Hayden was reported “up and about” and in good spirits Friday despite suffering a heart attack Sunday while vacationing with his family in New Mexico. Hayden, 61, the “Chicago Seven’ radical who stormed the 1968 Democratic National Convention to protest the Vietnam War and was later married to … Read more

Marco Palomera packs up to leave his Whittier apartment in 2019. With no clear pathway to citizenship, Palomera, who had lived without lawful status in the U.S. for decades, moved to Canada with a student visa in 2020. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) The California population of immigrants lacking lawful status decreased by 150,000 … Read more

Taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment in California since it was reinstated in 1978, or about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out since then, according to a comprehensive analysis of the death penalty’s costs. The examination of state, federal and local expenditures for capital cases, conducted over … Read more

Karem Yepez, left, and Marilyn Briel at a rally in Miami a couple of weeks before the 2020 election. (Brittny Mejia/Los Angeles Times) In a country of deeply dug in voters, Latinos provide the great exception. Although most Latino voters cast ballots for Democrats, as a group their partisan loyalties are less fixed and less … Read more

Three candidates are running in the Nov. 8 election to represent the 72nd Assembly District. They are Democrat Allan L. Dollison of Brea; Libertarian Geoffrey Braun of Placentia; and Republican Ross Johnson, the incumbent, of Placentia. Here’s how they stand on four issues. “Three Strikes” Crime Law Dollison: “I favor and endorse the ‘three strikes’ … Read more

Former President Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., on Aug. 9. (Rick Bowmer / Associated Press) The way former President Trump tells it, the United States is a “crime-ridden mess” with “the worst border in the history of the world,” simultaneously headed for the next Great Depression and World War … Read more

Donald Trump speaks Friday in Washington, D.C., surrounded by Medal of Honor recipients and veterans. (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump stood before television cameras on Friday and acknowledged a well-known fact that he had spent years denying — “President Barack Obama was born in the United States.” It will be up to voters to determine … Read more

President Biden, former President Trump and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Matt Kelley / Associated Press; Paul Sancya / Associated Press; Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) California voters regularly tell pollsters that the housing crisis and homelessness are the most important issues to them. Tents on street corners is how most Californians understand … Read more

In the San Fernando Valley neighborhood where the beating of motorist Rodney G. King in 1991 set off a chain of events leading to the Los Angeles riots, Vice President Al Gore trumpeted a package of government programs Saturday intended to boost community employment and educational access to the Internet. Gore lauded the programs at … Read more