President Trump wants to limit which children born in the United States can become citizens. (Eric Gay / Associated Press) A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second temporary pause on President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally. U.S. District Judge … Read more
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, shown in Costa Rica in November, has jailed tens of thousands of accused gang members. (Jose Diaz / Associated Press) While the Biden administration criticized Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s strong-armed governing style, the Trump administration sees him as its new best friend in Latin America. Bukele made a name for himself … Read more
President Trump’s freeze on foreign aid could boost authoritarians. Congress budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter authoritarian rule in eight countries considered by experts among the world’s least free: Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) When President Trump froze foreign … Read more
For a candidate languishing at the bottom of the polls, Mel Levine does not act like an underdog. Well-bred, Ivy League-educated and rich, Levine exudes the confidence of a man who feels destined for political success–despite being a relative unknown. With nearly $4 million in the bank, the congressman from Santa Monica has one of … Read more
A solar power generating system funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development in the eastern Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. (Bilal Hussein / Associated Press) The Trump administration says it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job and out of the field worldwide, moving to all but end a … Read more
During his 18 years in public office, former state Sen. Alan Robbins acquired a reputation as one of the richest politicians in Sacramento, a slick operator known as much for profiting from real estate deals as delivering the political bacon to constituents. The dapper Democratic lawmaker lives in a 16-room home in the Encino hills … Read more
Seven years ago, Laurie David was invited to a small breakfast at a Westside hotel with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a charismatic attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. She went in a casual conservationist who yelled at litterbugs — and emerged a fiery environmentalist who wanted to devote her life to preserving the planet. … Read more
U.S. Supreme Court. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images) The Supreme Court rebuked North Carolina’s Republican leaders Monday for shifting tens of thousands of black voters into two congressional districts that had steadily elected black Democrats, striking down the move as racial gerrymandering. The Constitution forbids a state from “separating its citizens into voting districts on … Read more
Then-President Trump, shown in December 2020. (Associated Press) Hello and happy Thursday. There are 165 days until the election, and the Democrats have a manhood problem — one a pill won’t fix. Before we pop into that, don’t you hate it when you “accidentally” go all Nazi and have to walk it back? The Trump … Read more
White House Associate Counsel William H. Kennedy III was stripped of two areas of responsibility Wednesday because of disclosures that he failed to pay Social Security taxes for a nanny despite warnings from his superiors, officials said Wednesday. White House Chief of Staff Thomas (Mack) McLarty and incoming Special Counsel Lloyd N. Cutler decided to … Read more
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