Politics

While Republican ads do not condone violence, many use battle rhetoric that portrays House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an enemy. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Republicans and allied groups nationwide pumped about $50million this election cycle into campaign ads invoking, condemning or demonizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to an analysis from AdImpact. In … Read more

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, left, and his son Michael G. Flynn, second from left, board an elevator at Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 17, 2016. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) In his bestselling 2016 book on terrorism, “The Field of Fight,” retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn described growing up “hell-bent on breaking … Read more

When Michael S. Dukakis climbed into an M-1A1 battle tank in mid-September, two aides warned him he would look silly, not tough, on TV if he wore the tank’s high-tech helmet. But, moments later, as the giant tank rumbled across a dusty field, the Democratic nominee for President suddenly popped up with a Snoopy-like helmet … Read more

Donald Trump has said he’ll rid the federal workforce of thousands of “dishonest” civil servants if he’s elected again, prompting concerns from good-government groups. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) After one term as president in which his promise to remake the massive federal government mostly came up short, Donald Trump again is raining fury on … Read more

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by at least 2.8 million, according to a final tally. The result marked the biggest gap between the popular vote and the electoral college in almost 150 years. (AFP/Getty Images) The final results of the 2016 presidential election look like this: Hillary Clinton got roughly the same number of … Read more

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shake hands before the start of Tuesday night’s presidential debate. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump squared off Tuesday evening in what may be their only debate before November’s election, answering an array of domestic and foreign policy questions while trading barbs and … Read more

U.S. Senate candidate Tom Del Beccaro appears on the Lou Desmond radio show at a studio on the lot of Toyota of San Bernardino. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) U.S. Senate hopeful Tom Del Beccaro sat inside the makeshift KMET-AM (1490) studio in San Bernardino listening patiently as talk-radio host Lou Desmond railed about a white … Read more

Then-Vice President Joe Biden meets with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, then the acting prime minister of Ukraine, in Kyiv, on April 22, 2014. (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times) Four days before President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the outgoing vice president, Joe Biden, was in Ukraine — his sixth visit in seven years — … Read more

“The President misspoke.” The official said it in a hushed tone as though committing some form of blasphemy, and immediately added that he should probably not be saying this, and that it was on very deep background. He was trying to explain how it was that on Nov. 7, President Clinton had said, “North Korea … Read more

Exploring the riddle of California’s 450-mile-long congressional district A little before noon on a recent Wednesday, residents of this improbable town halfway between Death Valley and Mt. Whitney gathered in front of the post office after the morning delivery. For the last month their ritual has included tossing out campaign fliers and wondering how strangers … Read more