Politics

Nancy Pelosi’s plan to seek reelection extends one of San Francisco’s longest-running, most-fevered political guessing games: Who will succeed the Democrat when she finally does step aside? The announcement Tuesday by the 81-year-old congresswoman was utterly predictable. Her decision augurs an election that will be thoroughly pro forma. Pelosi will attract, as she always does, … Read more

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads from a statement about Pope Francis during a campaign rally in Kiawah, S.C., on Thursday. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images) The tiff between Donald Trump and Pope Francis on Thursday was the latest example of what’s become a persistent theme of Trump’s presidential campaign: caustic battles over religion, immigration … Read more

The individual act of Sirhan Sirhan in assassinating presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was not the “first shot” in the terror war, as Michael Fischbach tries to imply (Commentary, June 2). It was no more an act of terror than John Hinckley Jr.’s or Lee Harvey Oswald’s. Maybe James Earl Ray’s assassination of Martin … Read more

Three of President Trump’s children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn’t drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. “Can … Read more

Former President Trump with the firefighter gear said to belong to Corey Comperatore, who was slain in Saturday’s assassination attempt, during the Republican National Convention on Thursday. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Former President Trump said Thursday that divine providence saved him from being killed by an assassin in his first public remarks since … Read more

If nothing else, the Republican National Convention here in August will reveal to the American people a development that some may find heartening, others shocking: Jack Ford, who burst upon the national scene in 1974 as the free-spirited, shaggy-haired son of new President Gerald Ford, has grown up. Now 44, the younger Ford is a … Read more

The Capitol is framed by the columns at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP) The nation’s federal debt by the end of the year will reach the highest level since shortly after World War II and is on pace to reach historic and unsustainable levels within 30 years, according to … Read more

He was known as Tony back then, a young boy so persuasive and self-assured that he helped persuade his family to ditch Catholicism for the Mormon Church, and he marched in a union picket line with his dad, a casino bartender, to demand better wages. Marco Rubio’s life might have turned out very differently had … Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris walks into the Senate reception room after the failed vote on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on Nov. 3, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Congressional Democrats on Wednesday afternoon again failed to expand voting rights when Senate Republicans blocked voting on a bill that would have … Read more

The worldwide dredging operation on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International has carried with it to the surface the Central Intelligence Agency. This is an old story by now. Sink any hook deep enough, haul on it hard enough and up comes the CIA, again. Perhaps this is inevitable–the consequence of climbing into bed … Read more