Politics

Making clear that she will not slip into the customary role of the seen-but-seldom-heard political spouse, Hillary Clinton will mark the President-elect’s first post-election trip to Washington by delivering a speech tonight to the annual dinner of the Children’s Defense Fund–the high-profile liberal advocacy group whose board of directors she used to chair. Although the … Read more

Only a Spaceman could talk about Buckminster Fuller and Gary Carter while stumping for presidential votes as the Rhinoceros Party candidate. At a trendy nightclub. Charging $10 a pop. “A lot of people are here because they didn’t believe I’m still alive,” former Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill (Spaceman) Lee told the crowd at Nightstage … Read more

The twin sons of the late Rep. Mickey Leland (D-Tex.) have finally gone home from the hospital. Cameron George and Austin Mickey Leland had been hospitalized in Houston for more than four months after being born 10 weeks prematurely. Leland’s wife, Alison, said the babies, who weighed 3 pounds and 2 pounds, 11 ounces at … Read more

The Supreme Court in Washington. (Associated Press) The Supreme Court’s favorite target again this year was the California-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which saw 15 of 16 rulings overturned on review. For decades, the high court’s conservatives have trained a skeptical eye on the historically liberal appeals court and regularly reversed its rulings, … Read more

President Trump declared his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon persona non grata on Wednesday, delivering a scorching rebuke to the man who had been Trump’s most visible partner in his efforts to redefine the Republican Party according to their populist and nationalist vision. “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency,” … Read more

The last time four living U.S. presidents got together was for a somber conference at the White House to prepare for the 1981 funeral of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. This week, less than nine years later, four living presidents, former and serving, will gather at an unprecedented public ceremony in Orange County to mark … Read more

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) worked on a confidential and controversial memo involving how the Department of Justice pursued the Russia investigation. (Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA) Conservative Republicans are pushing to release a memo containing classified information about the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign, sparking new controversy in a … Read more

Research that led to the compilation of a dossier detailing allegations about President Trump’s ties to Russia and possible coordination with the Kremlin were funded in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to the Washington Post. A Clinton campaign lawyer and the DNC retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, … Read more

Christian O’Neil hugs his mother, Sara, during dinner at their home in Randall, Iowa, while she describes a scary incident she experienced while serving in the military. (Bryon Houlgrave / For The Times) The Barbies lived in California, of course. On summer days, as Sara O’Neil pranced her dolls along the muddy stream that ran … Read more

Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his cancer diagnosis at the Carter Center in Atlanta. (Bob Andres / Atlanta Journal-Constitution) As former President Carter told reporters Thursday that cancer had spread to his brain, he reflected on his life and was asked whether he had any regrets. The 90-year-old’s answer was blunt and candid. “I wish … Read more