Politics

Newly anointed President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation Saturday. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times) My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken. They have delivered us a clear victory. A convincing victory. A victory for “We the people.” We have won with the most votes ever cast for a presidential ticket in the history … Read more

More than 200 Cherokees and other Native Americans have signed a letter urging Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren to fully retract her past claims to being Native and help dispel false beliefs held by many white people that they have American Indian ancestry. The letter cites a Los Angeles Times investigation that found more than … Read more

It was a nervous time for Marilyn C. Brewer, who had just won a three-way slugfest in the June primary to become the Republican nominee in the 70th Assembly District. There she was in the state capital, not yet knowing when, or if, her “mainstream Republican” views would ever be embraced by the party’s archconservatives. … Read more

A woman who alleged that former Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra harassed her co-worker when he was a top legislative staffer says she’ll run for the district seat he vacated. San Fernando resident Yolanda Anguiano, a Democrat who works for a nonprofit and served as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s appointee on a planning commission, filed fundraising … Read more

A house destroyed by shelling by Azerbaijan’s artillery in Stepanakert, capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. (Associated Press) The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, neighboring Caucasus nations at war for nearly a month, pleaded their cases Friday to the Trump administration but emerged with no sign of having found common ground. It was the … Read more

President Biden gets mixed reviews from California voters, who are broadly pessimistic about the direction of the country. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press) Roughly 6 in 10 California voters give President Biden poor marks on his handling of inflation, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, even as his overall job approval marginally … Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom, visit the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero at Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador with Father Francisco Villalobos, left. Romero was assassinated in 1980 because he advocated for human rights and the poor. (Salvador Melendez / Associated Press) During a three-day fact-finding trip, Gov. Gavin Newsom … Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother in which he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders, the New York Times reported. … Read more

For Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill, the moment of truth had arrived. Seated in the Oval Office on Sept. 4, 2002, he looked President Bush in the eye and told him that another big tax cut could prove disastrous. “Mr. President, if you start pushing through a second major stimulus plan, you run out of … Read more

A worker returns voting machines to storage at the Fulton County, Ga., election preparation center on Nov. 4, 2020, in Atlanta. Testing before and after elections shows the voting machines accurately tally the ballots, contradicting unfounded conspiracy theories. (John Bazemore / Associated Press) On the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference this month, … Read more