Donald Trump, President Biden and their wives just before last month’s inauguration. Trump said Friday he is revoking his predecessor’s classified intelligence briefings. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) President Trump said Friday that he’s revoking former President Biden’s access to government secrets and ending the daily intelligence briefings he’s receiving, in payback for Biden doing … Read more
Casting himself as the true reformer in the race for president, Al Gore proposed Tuesday a four-year hiring freeze and increased use of the Internet to create a leaner, more efficient federal government. Delivering the first of a series of policy speeches aimed at sharpening contrasts with George W. Bush as the campaign closes, the … Read more
Signaling his intention to reshape California’s environmental policies, Gov. Pete Wilson named a 34-year-old federal official to head a new California Environmental Protection Agency. James M. Strock, assistant administrator for enforcement at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will take on the job of creating a state agency that will assume responsibility for such issues as … Read more
An aircraft drops fire retardant on the Palisades fire as smoke blankets Los Angeles County on Jan. 8. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) State senators gathered in Pasadena on Friday afternoon to announce a slate of wildfire recovery bills, including proposals to protect renters, expand firefighter staffing and fund programs for displaced K-12 … Read more
A 2020 photo shows federal immigration agents detaining suspects in Los Angeles. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Federal law enforcement agents are planning to carry out a “large scale” immigration enforcement action in the Los Angeles area before the end of February, according to an internal government document reviewed by The Times. The operation, which would … Read more
Republican strategist Mike Murphy, left, and Democratic strategist Bob Shrum speak during a taping of “Meet the Press” on April 13, 2008, in Washington, D.C. The two are heading up a new Center for the Political Future at USC. (Alex Wong / Getty Images for “Meet the Press”) Former President Obama didn’t mince words denouncing … Read more
A Sacramento rally for Proposition 10 in October. (Steve Yeater / Associated Press) The defeat of a ballot measure that would have allowed for the expansion of rent control across California has buoyed landlords and left tenants pinning their hopes on the state’s new governor for relief. Proposition 10 failed resoundingly with nearly 62% of … Read more
Bill Frischling is chief executive of FactSquared, which catalogs and analyzes President Trump’s speech patterns using an artificial intelligence bot named Margaret that he created. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) Bill Frischling’s moment of inspiration came three years ago, when Margaret, his artificial intelligence bot, tried to transcribe a 127-word section of a speech … Read more
Both Republicans and Democrats want welfare reform. Newt Gingrich, soon to be House majority leader, promises to hold hearings on the GOP’s Personal Responsibility Act–part of the House Republicans’ “Contract With America”–in the first 100 days of the coming session. President Clinton promises to make good on his campaign vow to change welfare through his … Read more
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North’s passionate testimony before a congressional investigating committee may well have generated more public support for President Reagan’s efforts to provide U.S. military aid for the contras, the Los Angeles Times Poll has found. But the charismatic Marine officer, while scoring a dramatic personal triumph, did not help Reagan’s personal popularity … Read more
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