Politics

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

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi did a guest appearance on the “Dr. Phil” show on Sept. 23, 2003. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) When Elizabeth Warren’s supporters tried to get her appointed head of a new federal consumer agency nearly a decade ago, they enlisted a surprising ally: Dr. … Read more

Democrats Al Gore and Joseph I. Lieberman appealed to Florida’s influential senior and Jewish voters Wednesday by joining forces to pitch their plan for assisting those with long-term care costs. Lieberman told the residents of the Kings Point Community Center near Ft. Lauderdale that Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush’s tax cut plan doesn’t add … Read more

California formally moved to spread its can-do global warming gospel around the world, signing a declaration Wednesday with 11 other U.S. states and provinces or states in five other countries to help them slash their greenhouse gas emissions. Fighting climate change shouldn’t just go “nation by nation,” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a climate summit in … Read more

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee mark the confirmation of 235 federal judges nominated by President Biden. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) President Biden secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency Friday, an accomplishment that exceeds his predecessor’s total by one after Democrats put extra emphasis … Read more