When Frank Smyth, who reported for the Village Voice and CBS News Radio, slipped into Iraq six years ago after the Persian Gulf War, he was blindfolded and interrogated as a suspected CIA agent. After several days in a prison near Baghdad, Saddam Hussein’s security officials finally let him go. Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson … Read more
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont speaks alongside congressional candidate Nina Turner on Saturday in Cleveland. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) In a defeat for the party’s left wing, Democratic primary voters in Ohio on Tuesday picked an establishment-backed candidate over an ally of progressive hero Bernie Sanders to fill a vacant House seat. Shontel … Read more
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, shown during his 2017 confirmation hearing, is a former attorney for a Christian legal group. (Associated Press) A Texas judge hearing a case that could throw into jeopardy access to the nation’s most common method of abortion is a former attorney for a Christian legal group who critics say is … Read more
President Trump speaks at a rally near the White House before his followers attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press) 1 WASHINGTON — There’s a beloved American axiom as old as the nation that “no one is above the law — not even the president.” Every generation or so, … Read more
Maintenance worker Danny Alvarez pulls a curtain in preparation for Wednesday’s GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) In some ways Simi Valley could be mistaken for “The Land Before Time.” The city rests between the Santa Susana Mountains and the Simi Hills, … Read more
The Old Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and his family will live until a $3.7 million home they purchased northeast of Sacramento is renovated. (Rich Pedroncelli / AP) After moving into the Victorian-style historic governor’s mansion in Sacramento just a few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his young … Read more
The California Employment Development Department in Sacramento is shown in December 2020. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) Just a small percentage of the at least $60 billion in unemployment payments estimated to be lost to fraud during the pandemic has been recovered, and time is running out to prosecute those who committed the crime. The … Read more
To hear congressional candidate Judy Jarvis tell it, hers is an American success story: a nurse who parlayed an idea for a nurses registry and a $5,000 loan into a $1-million-a-year business, sold it a decade later to a Fortune 500 company and now hopes to apply in Washington the principles she learned along the … Read more
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox, center, is questioned by reporters as he leaves a news conference where he blasted a recent gas tax increase in June in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / AP) Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox often cites his role in the financial turnaround of a Chicago potato-chip company as evidence of the sharp … Read more
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver speaks to reporters in front of the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee after telling justices Wednesday a proposed amendment to protect abortion rights should be kept off the ballot. (Brendan Farrington / Associated Press) Lawyers trying to keep an abortion rights measure off the Florida ballot have told the state … Read more
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