Politics

Nathan Hochman, left, and Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times; Al Seib / For The Times) With less than a month remaining before the Nov. 5 election, challenger Nathan Hochman is 30 percentage points ahead of incumbent Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón in a new poll. … Read more

Former Mesa County, Colo., elections chief Tina Peters. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press) Chances are you’ve never heard of Tina Peters. It’s worth taking a moment to get to know her. Peters used to be the elections chief in Mesa County, Colo., a slice of rugged beauty perched on the state’s Western Slope. After the … Read more

Elon Musk jumps behind Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of the first assassination attempt on the former president in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 28 days until the election, and the MAGA lies are spinning faster than Hurricane Milton. … Read more

Republican Senate candidate Steve Garvey, left, and his opponent, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), will hold their only one-on-one debate at 5 p.m. Tuesday. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) The two men vying to represent California in the U.S. Senate will face off Tuesday night in their only debate of the general election. Republican Steve Garvey, 75, … Read more

Abortion rights protesters rally near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta on May 14. (Ben Gray / Associated Press) The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday halted a ruling striking down the state’s near-ban on abortions while it considers the state’s appeal. The high court’s order came a week after a judge found that Georgia unconstitutionally … Read more

Vice President Dick Cheney made an impassioned argument Wednesday for the Bush administration’s policy of preemptive attacks, saying the United States will strike at terrorists and the countries that harbor them to prevent any attack on the American homeland. In a speech to the Air Force Assn. annual convention here, Cheney took a somewhat harder … Read more

Not long after Jesuit priest Jack Warner met a bearded, 22-year-old Midwesterner in 1980, the two Americans bonded, drawn together by the goals and questions that led them both to El Progreso, a small city not far from vast banana fields — the campos bananeros. Warner was 35 and had arrived a year earlier to … Read more

President Trump said Friday that he will skip President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, undercutting his message a day earlier that he would work to ensure a “smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power.” Trump, who offered no clues for how he would spend his final hours in office, will be the first incumbent … Read more

Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a campaign event Wednesday in York, Pa. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press) Nearly a week after verbal stumbles in the only vice presidential debate, Democrat Tim Walz used his debut campaign appearance on a Sunday news show to try to fend off criticism of his … Read more

Congregants attend service last month at Eglise Porte Etroite, a Creole-language church which has gone from seven attendees to close to 300 in under 15 years, in Albertville, Ala. (Safiyah Riddle / Associated Press) The transition from the bustling Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to a small Alabama city on the southernmost tip of the Appalachian mountain range … Read more