What started out two years ago as an effort by President Trump to wring better terms from China on the nuts and bolts of foreign trade now threatens to become a far wider and more ominous confrontation. The conflict continues to be framed as a “trade war” between the world’s two biggest economies — as … Read more
A masked President Trump visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) President Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time he has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as … Read more
Immigrant advocates jostle with pro-Trump supporters in Los Alamitos, where the City Council voted to opt out of California’s “sanctuary” law. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) With California and the Trump administration locked in a legal battle over immigration policies, a state Republican leader and an illegal immigration critic are quietly offering to help … Read more
Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has supported legislation expanding child labor. (Olivia Sun / Des Moines Register via Associated Press) Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children as young as 14 work in more hazardous occupations, longer hours on school nights and in expanded roles including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants. … Read more
As the anti-establishment activists of the “tea party” movement rally in Nevada this week, a troublesome question will hang over the red-meat speeches and cheers: Are the people most determined to oust Democrat Harry Reid the ones boosting his chances of reelection? The movement that boasts of its decentralized structure is facing its most high-profile … Read more
Sal Russo cut his first political ad in 1969 as a 23-year-old aide to then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, dispatched to California’s Salinas Valley to help a local apricot farmer win a state Assembly seat. Since then, he has been a mainstay in the state’s conservative political circles, consulting for the likes of Gov. George Deukmejian and … Read more
It happens every so often in U.S. politics. Voter behavior leaves pundits speechless–at least for a minute. The technical term for the phenomenon is the “Say what ?” factor. It’s at work in this year’s Republican presidential primaries. Exit polls indicate that GOP women are voting overwhelmingly for President George Bush. Who are these women? … Read more
President Trump returns to the White House on Saturday after a trip to his golf resort in Virginia. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) President Trump’s support among Republicans and other conservative voters has begun to erode amid the continued coronavirus pandemic and its associated economic havoc, a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental … Read more
In contests sure to rattle an already queasy crop of Capitol Hill incumbents, veteran Illinois Sen. Alan J. Dixon was upset in the Democratic primary Tuesday while a controversial Chicago-area congressman also lost and another appeared headed for defeat. With 93% of the vote counted in the Senate race, Cook County official Carol Moseley Braun … Read more
The Department of Justice in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press) A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Adam … Read more
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