Politics

Altadena suffered a ‘catastrophic failure.’ Did unincorporated status hurt fire response? In the first 24 hours of the Eaton fire, Pasadena’s communications director helped activate four different kinds of alerts to keep its residents apprised of evacuation orders, while also hopping on several news programsand doing interviews to share updates in real time. Further east, … Read more

Forty years ago–the last time Democrats met in Los Angeles to nominate a candidate for president–there was only a small possibility that front-runner John F. Kennedy would leave without his party’s nomination. This time there is not the slightest chance of uncertainty, let alone upset, in the official proceedings. The script has been written, the … Read more

Gov. Newsom is sticking to his campaign promises of scaling back the high-speed rail and water-tunnels projects. (JOHN G MABANGLO/EPA-EFE/REX / JOHN G MABANGLO/EPA-EFE/REX) If anyone thought that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration would merely be an extension of fellow Democrat Jerry Brown’s, that notion has been completely obliterated. Brown’s — and before him Arnold Schwarzenegger’s … Read more

This image taken from Ivanka Trump’s Twitter account shows her holding a can of Goya beans. (Twitter) Ivanka Trump on Wednesday defended tweeting a photo of herself holding up a can of Goya beans to buck up a Hispanic-owned business that she says has been unfairly treated, arguing that she has “every right” to publicly … Read more

The U.S. Marshals Service, which provides security for federal courts and apprehends most federal fugitives, has been hit with sweeping budget cuts that will force layoffs of nearly a quarter of its employees in Los Angeles, federal officials said Friday. “It is kind of rough,” said Craig L. Meacham, the U.S. marshal in Los Angeles. … Read more

Less than a week after entering the race for governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has already shaken up his campaign team, demoting a top strategist and turning day-to-day operations over to aides who ran former Gov. Pete Wilson’s office. The moves reflect both a scramble to assemble a campaign on the fly — the actor surprised even … Read more

Call him a schemer, a dreamer, a big talker. Call him a shady operator, a global operator, a lawbreaker. All of these have been used to describe John Clifford Ellsworth. By repute, the 42-year-old convicted felon also is a spinner of tall tales who has a yen for attaching himself to celebrated events. A globe-trotter … Read more

President Trump speaks Thursday in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP/Getty Images) President Trump’s speech in Warsaw cast the fight against terrorism as a clash of civilizations, adopting a framework that his two predecessors had determinedly avoided and linking it to his controversial policies on immigration. The … Read more

Vice President Al Gore underwent surgery Saturday night to repair an Achilles’ tendon he injured playing basketball with former colleagues in the House of Representatives, a spokeswoman said. Gore, 46, tore his left tendon, which runs along the back of the lower leg, during a game in the House gymnasium. After being examined by a … Read more

Safiya Baidi spent six months living in a 1987 Mitsubishi Galant. She slept in the front seat; her two baby girls slept in the back seat. Food was stored in the trunk. It was a way to keep orderly the only home she had. Most nights, though, that order was interrupted by her children’s needs. … Read more