President Obama speaks at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Kissimmee, Fla. on Sunday. (John Raoux / Associated Press) Campaigning for Hillary Clinton at a Florida baseball stadium, President Obama lamented Sunday that the nature of this year’s presidential race has become so negative that even “Saturday Night Live” this week couldn’t keep parodying … Read more
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not just reject Stanley Tookie Williams’ request for clemency, he aggressively attacked the central element of the former gang leader’s case: Williams, he said, had never really reformed. Over the last decade, Williams had become famous based on his account of how he went from a gang leader to an anti-gang … Read more
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani attends a memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He was disbarred in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, months after he lost his law license in New York. (Yuki Iwamura / Associated Press) Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred … Read more
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. (Don Emmert / AFP-Getty Images) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday released 10 years of his long-anticipated tax returns as he campaigns for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. His 2018 return reveals that he and his wife, Jane, earned more than $550,000, including $133,000 in income from his Senate salary … Read more
Businessman Bill Simon Jr., making his first try for public office, capped a meteoric rise to political power by toppling Richard Riordan on Tuesday in the GOP primary for governor. The emphatic victory–which seemed improbable as recently as 10 days ago–will pit Simon against Democratic incumbent Gray Davis in November’s general election. Simon went after … Read more
Former President Trump says he would expel the more than 1 million people who entered the U.S. under two Biden administration programs. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Former President Trump, who has made anti-immigration rhetoric a key part of his reelection campaign, warned Wednesday that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of immigrants who … Read more
Dawn Stephens and Duane Taylor prepare ballots to be mailed at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections in Charlotte, N.C., this month. (Nell Redmond / Associated Press) In Georgia, election workers will have to hand count the number of ballots cast after voting is completed. In North Carolina, some students and university staff can use … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event on Friday in Atlanta. (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Friday as her campaign increasingly tries to make the issue of immigration more of a strength, countering a line of political attack from former President … Read more
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris waves to supporters at a campaign event Friday in Madison, Wis. (Morry Gash / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, marking a significant boost to her campaign since many Muslim and Arab American … Read more
Like a modern-day Daniel entering the lion’s den, Rep. William E. Dannemeyer strode purposefully into a roomful of sex educators and therapists. The crowd, gathered to hear him debate a noted gay-rights spokesman on the subject of AIDS, gasped when the Fullerton Republican called for quarantining AIDS patients, perhaps in the 20th-Century equivalent of leper … Read more
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