Politics

The late Rep. Sonny Bono nursed a secret dependence on prescription painkillers and was taking up to 20 pills a day about the time he skied into a tree on a South Lake Tahoe slope in January, according to Mary Bono (R-Palm Springs), his widow and successor in Congress. “I am 100% convinced that is … Read more

When Democrat Adam Schiff was elected to the House of Representatives from his Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena state Senate district last fall, he said, “Among those of us in the freshman class, there is a great deal of optimism that we are going to be able to work together in a bipartisan way.” It would be premature to … Read more

Gov. Pete Wilson on Saturday castigated the Legislature’s Democratic leaders for opposing his budget-balancing plan without offering an alternative of their own, and renewed his call for an initiative that would cut welfare benefits. Speaking before the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., named after the author of California’s Proposition 13, the governor also said he would … Read more

Presidential candidate Bill Clinton has rewarded the financial elite of Arkansas with lucrative state business and low-interest loans while soliciting them–in one instance urgently and personally–for millions of dollars in political contributions and campaign loans, The Times has found. He has done it through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. As governor, Clinton established it to … Read more

For weeks, Monica M. Goodling fended off House investigators, pleading the 5th Amendment, refusing to testify or surrender requested documents. On Wednesday, having wrangled her into their hearing room with a subpoena and a grant of immunity, Democrats were loaded for bear. Here was their chance to confront the mystery woman in the Justice Department’s … Read more

Early voting ended Friday in Nevada, and election officials reported that the record numbers of early and absentee ballots should add up to half of the 800,000 people expected to vote by the time polls close Tuesday night. By Friday evening, more than 380,000 Nevadans had cast early or absentee ballots in Clark, Washoe, Carson … Read more

Supporters of Donald Trump celebrate at the convention center in West Palm Beach, Fla., as Fox News declares him the projected presidential election winner in the early hours of Nov. 6. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images) In his victory speech on Nov. 6, President-elect Donald Trump claimed Americans had given him an “unprecedented and powerful … Read more

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders appears with union workers in Lansing, Mich., to object to Hillary Clinton’s trade policies. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) With a victory in Tuesday’s Michigan presidential primary critical to his campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has seized on an issue on which he and Hillary Clinton have sharp disagreements … Read more

Here is the prepared text of President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night: Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the United States Congress. I come to this house of the people to speak to you and all Americans, certain that we stand at a defining hour. Halfway around the world, we are engaged … Read more

Candace Owens speaking at the 2019 Convention of the Right in Paris. (Michel Euler / Associated Press) The conservative U.S. political commentator Candace Owens was refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials said Thursday. News of the ruling came weeks after … Read more