Politics

Responding to reports Thursday of a decades-old incident, Texas Gov. George W. Bush acknowledged being arrested and pleading guilty to drunken driving. The GOP presidential nominee confirmed the episode, which took place in Maine over the 1976 Labor Day weekend, after details were broadcast by Maine television stations. Several years ago, Bush was asked directly … Read more

On an overcast weekend last June, I drove to my sister Betsy’s house in Encinitas to do something I had long resisted–sort through my father Horace Busby’s papers and memorabilia. My sisters and I had moved our father from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles in 1997 because of his failing health. It had not been … Read more

A view of Cottonwood Wash, located within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. (Jack Herrera / Los Angeles Times) They are sprawling lands of seemingly endless vistas and soaring plateaus. The red canyons are sprinkled with ancient rock art and historic Indigenous settlements. Normally nonconfrontational paleontologists were so wowed by their fossils that they sued … Read more

Patrons enjoy a joint at a restaurant and cannabis bar in West Hollywood, which is allowed to operate through a license issued by the city. The rest of California will soon follow under a law signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) Despite concerns about the health risks of secondhand … Read more

A man walks past the statues in front of the Asian Center in Lowell. (Anik Rahman / For The Times) For two centuries white men dominated this New England textile mill city, many ruling from the handsome Belvidere neighborhood overlooking the Merrimack River valley. Lowell, Mass., sits in the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, … Read more

California is poised once again to compete for the crown as the nation’s leading graveyard for business superstars trying to make the jump into politics. With election day yet 48 hours away, it’s still possible that Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina will prevail in their campaigns for governor and U.S. senator. But the betting and … Read more

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. joins the Democratic ticket as an acknowledged foreign policy sage whose 36-year record has won him bipartisan praise as a liberal internationalist who generally hews close to his party’s center. But he has sometimes found himself at odds with members of his own party as well as with Republicans. Biden … Read more

Joe Biden personifies the ‘Delaware Way.’ In Wilmington, that clubby style of politics is being questioned There he is, tucked behind the red-vinyl booths of a tiny luncheonette, beaming from a campaign poster. And there he is again, his name emblazoned on the downtown station of his beloved Amtrak. All throughout his hometown, there are … Read more

Police officers form a line during protests in Louisville, Ky. Protesters marched in the streets after a Kentucky Grand Jury indicted one of the three officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor with wanton endangerment. (Getty Images) Qualified immunity has entered the popular lexicon in the last few years, especially since the murder of … Read more

Supporters of President Trump gather outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 1 WASHINGTON — It’s been a year since the world watched angry Donald Trump supporters, some armed with Molotov cocktails and dressed in tactical gear, storm the nation’s Capitol and violently clash with police. Spurred on … Read more