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
Marcos Sanchez and others listened to representatives from the TODEC Legal Center during a “Know Your Rights” session in Riverside. (Mark Boster/For The Times) The morning after former President Trump won a second term on a promise to deport millions of immigrants, a line formed outside a Riverside County legal aid organization before it had … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally Tuesday in Atlanta. (John Bazemore / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee, according to Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, but it’s not time for the balloon drop just yet. Harrison made the announcement Friday, but … Read more
A demonstrator cuts her hair during an Oct. 2 rally in Istanbul against the Iranian government’s crackdown on protests after the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian custody. (Bulent Kilic / AFP/Getty Images) With efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal languishing, the Biden administration on Wednesday hit Tehran with a new batch of economic … Read more
Elon Musk has tapped a longtime deputy, Steve Davis, to recruit staff for DOGE. (NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk’s deputy Steve Davis has spent more than 20 years helping the billionaire cut costs at businesses such as SpaceX, the Boring Company and Twitter — making the engineer by training a natural choice for his … Read more
Last summer Washington’s Government Accounting Office ripped Sacramento officials for failing to discipline hundreds of grossly negligent California nursing homes. Now, a year later, the state has yet to take action on oversight, leading some reform advocates to ask whether it ever will. They point out that the GAO study identified the same problems that … Read more
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