Politics

Gavin Newsom’s new political podcast has featured conservative luminaries such as Steve Bannon, left, and Charlie Kirk, right. Is there a method to the governor’s approach, or is it political madness? (Associated Press) Gavin Newsom has a new political podcast, in case you hadn’t heard, and he’s not the only one who’s talking. California’s gallivanting … Read more

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday. (Julia Nikhinson / Associated Press) Standing next to a spread of coffee, cereal and breakfast meats at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday, former President Trump started what he billed as his second news conference in … Read more

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, shown in 2023. Former National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker brought up a deal he had made with Schwarzenegger during testimony in the Donald Trump hush-money trial. (Jack Dempsey / Associated Press) Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past personal foibles reemerged in the trial of former President Trump over allegations of … Read more

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove), seen in 2019, said Wednesday that his party’s move to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas threatened to create a dangerous precedent. (House Television via AP) California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock said Wednesday that he’d bucked his party’s effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas because it … Read more

Though President Trump and other conservatives blame China for the enormous damage inflicted here by the coronavirus, legal experts say the recent efforts to sue Beijing in U.S. courts for the trillions of dollars in losses are almost certain to fail. That’s because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, which stands as a … Read more

Gay activist Melvin Boozer, who led national groups seeking rights for homosexuals and who was a token nominee for vice president of the United States in 1980, has died at age 41 of undisclosed causes. Boozer had served as president of the District of Columbia Gay Activists Alliance from 1979 to 1981 and later became … Read more

Antonetta Ferraro, 84, mother of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. “I always said I had two role models in life,” said Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1984. “One was Eleanor Roosevelt and one was Antonetta Ferraro. She worked all her life. She worked in sweatshops when they were really sweatshops. … Read more

Jim Graves at a news conference. (Glen Stubbe / Associated Press) WASHINGTON — With Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann opting against a reelection bid, the Democrat who nearly unseated her last November and was gunning for her again is now out of the race too. Jim Graves, a St. Cloud businessman, told the local website MinnPost … Read more

The sun beats down on Main Street with a ferocity that sends Ricky Wilburn and his mother to the Sonic Drive-In for a hot fudge sundae and a Route 44-size Diet Coke big enough to fill his gas tank. It is Saturday afternoon, his day off from the local boot factory where he makes buckles. … Read more

A waterway along Route 4 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, just outside Stockton. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times) What Gov. Jerry Brown has been pitching as his California WaterFix is seen by many San Joaquin Valley farmers as a checkbook buster. History may be repeating itself. Hang around long enough and comets return. Brown … Read more