Politics

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

The first meaningful California presidential primary campaign in decades swirled to a close with a final round of candidate appeals, advertisements, mailers and door-knocking — and a boatload of uncertainty over exactly when the outcome will be decided. On the final weekend before election day, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were locked in … Read more

Alan Dershowitz — constitutional law scholar, former Harvard Law School professor, nationally recognized legal commentator — is joining President Trump’s legal team. (Richard Drew / Associated Press) Ten years after O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, one of his lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, admitted that “sometimes you lose sleep at night” while working as a defense … Read more

President Bush’s pep talk to the nation Tuesday night was a major disappointment. He again rewrote history by lumping together the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the need for war in Iraq, when, in fact, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had no connection to Al Qaeda. Bush spoke of “difficult and dangerous” work in Iraq … Read more

President Trump holds up a copy of USA Today with the banner headline of his acquittal at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Exulting in his impeachment acquittal, President Trump took a scorched-earth victory lap Thursday, unleashing his fury against those who tried to remove him from … Read more

Supporters of President Trump storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Getty Images) The U.S. Capitol Police force has not made the majority of its inspector general’s post-Jan. 6 recommendations, he told a House committee Thursday, saying more training and intelligence gathering are among the department’s most pressing needs to anticipate and protect against … Read more

Protesters have been dressing as characters from “The Handmaid’s Tale” to protest restrictions and bans on abortion since former President Trump took office. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last week striking down Roe vs. Wade, they repeatedly cited the dystopian novel in criticizing the ruling. (Associated Press) When feminists protest, they often … Read more

Donald Trump’s effort to overcome his deep unpopularity among female voters was dealt a setback Friday as decades-old domestic violence allegations surfaced against Stephen K. Bannon, the controversial new chief executive of his campaign. In January 1996, according to a police report, Bannon grabbed his wife’s wrist and neck, then smashed a phone when she … Read more

Days after The Times reported “crippling” vacancies at California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health that led at least one employee to use Google Translate to decipher Spanish complaints and kept others from on-site inspections, the agency announced it will temporarily hire retired inspectors. The agency, better known as Cal/OSHA, said the decision had been … Read more