Pete Hegseth is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) A woman told Monterey police that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, took her phone, blocked her from leaving his hotel room and sexually assaulted her, according to a newly released police report. On Wednesday evening, the … Read more
Rep. Loretta Sanchez gestures on the steps of a congressional office building in Washington during orientation week for new members of Congress. (Alex Garcia / Los Angeles Times) Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s easygoing, neighborly style has won over Orange County voters for two decades, but that blessing has come with a nettlesome curse: the occasional, stinging … Read more
In the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Ariz., local organizer Maria Calamity shows a resident where to sign a card pledging to vote in the November presidential election. (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press) A new study has found that systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in Native American turnout, particularly for … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, closes a door to a meeting with Vice President-elect JD Vance and Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members at the Capitol on Wednesday. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on the panel’s … Read more
Texas state Sen. Dawn Buckingham, shown at a 2022 Trump rally in Conroe, Texas, sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump last week offering a parcel of state-owned land near the U.S.-Mexico border as a staging area for mass deportations. (Jason Fochtman / Associated Press) Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the … Read more
The vast open rotunda soared above them as they waited by the hundreds to register and cast absentee ballots inside City Hall, the 19th century landmark modeled after a long-forgotten Dutch guildhall. It was a predominantly African American crowd, and people sang “We Shall Overcome.” But Yuri Nielsen was unmoved. Sitting on a hard chair … Read more
Acting Atty. Gen. Matthew Whitaker is slated to testify on Friday before the House Judiciary Committee at what could be a contentious hearing. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images) Three months after Democrats won control of the House in the midterm election, they’re about to exercise their power by grilling the nation’s top law enforcement officer … Read more
Today, Yoo and Ackerman discuss the hypocrisy of the left and the right on the issue of war powers. Previously, they debated the ongoing use-of-force resolution and the war powers language of the constitution. Later this week, they’ll debate the questionable relevance of declaring war in the 21st century, and the possibility that there may … Read more
Summer’s over. Get ready for action. Congress, be forewarned. The Clinton administration’s biggest step yet with China is coming, within a matter of weeks if not days. The administration now is pushing quietly but determinedly to conclude a deal with China that will permit its admission to the World Trade Organization. For President Clinton, such … Read more
Transients rousted from Los Angeles during the Great Depression, which led to the federal social safety net. (Dorothea Lange/ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) The Social Security check that arrives each month. The unemployment benefits that help tide workers over between jobs. The security lines snaking through airports, back when millions of Americans … Read more
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