Politics

Mitt Romney’s physician described the Republican presidential nominee as an “energetic, strong, physically fit” man who looks younger than his age in a letter released Friday that offered the first glimpse into the state of the candidate’s health. Dr. Randall D. Gaz, who practices at Massachusetts General Hospital and has been Romney’s personal physician since … Read more

Former Mesa County, Colo., elections chief Tina Peters. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press) Chances are you’ve never heard of Tina Peters. It’s worth taking a moment to get to know her. Peters used to be the elections chief in Mesa County, Colo., a slice of rugged beauty perched on the state’s Western Slope. After the … Read more

George W. Bush seems fixed on going to war against Baghdad no matter what. No matter if Iraq does or does not represent an actual threat. No matter whether Saddam Hussein allows weapons inspectors in. No matter what our allies think or what the regional fallout from such an intervention might mean. No matter what … Read more

A Metro train passes by apartments in Culver City. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) A dramatic increase in new housing near transit stations could be on its way across California under new legislation proposed by a Bay Area legislator. Subject to some limitations, the measure would eliminate restrictions on the number of houses allowed … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel, speaking at the Oscars in Los Angeles in March, has been trading barbs recently with Elon Musk. (Chris Pizzello / Invision) Has your news media moratorium lifted yet? I suppose that’s a moot question since you’re reading this. Let me take this moment to thank you for venturing back into the fever swamp … Read more

For more than a decade, Dick Cheney has tussled with the CIA, first as secretary of Defense and later as vice president. Now that long and tortured history forms the backdrop of a federal probe into who named an undercover agency officer — an inquiry that is centering in part on Cheney’s office. Special Prosecutor … Read more

The idea that Google is subtly pushing masses of voters to the left has the ring of conspiracy, and thus the work of Robert Epstein is warmly embraced by conservative lawmakers — as well as a president — convinced big tech is plotting against them. Yet even some scholars who think the San Diego-based psychologist … Read more

John H. Rousselot, the conservative Republican who represented part of the San Gabriel Valley in Congress for 14 years, was an officer of the John Birch Society and who tried to buy Charles H. Keating Jr.’s failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Assn., died Sunday. He was 75. Rousselot, of Mission Viejo, died at Irvine Medical … Read more

“The Last Campaign” is a lively retelling of one of the oddest yet most interesting presidential campaigns of the 20th century. Despite its subtitle, it is not confined to Truman’s winning “Give ‘em hell” campaign but covers with equal thoroughness the glacial but principled campaign of Republican Thomas E. Dewey; the mystical, self-defeating campaign of … Read more

California Senate leader Kevin de León on Sunday launched a bid to challenge fellow Democrat Dianne Feinstein for her U.S. Senate seat, saying he is ready to wage a more aggressive fight against President Trump’s conservative agenda. “We’re overdue for a real debate on the issues, priorities and leadership voters want from their senator,” De … Read more