Politics

Flavored vaping products containing nicotine are seen in a store in Los Angeles. (AFP/Getty Images) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-minute plea from the tobacco industry and cleared the way for California to enforce a statewide ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. The court’s action has the … Read more

The Supreme Court declared Monday that the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination nationwide. The 6-3 ruling, one of the most far-reaching civil rights advances in recent decades, marked a victory for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer workers, who until now lacked legal protection in more than half … Read more

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. A campaign that has featured a felony conviction, a televised assassination attempt and a late withdrawal of a sitting president has reached its final weekend with the same chasm that has dominated American politics for the last decade: between voters who fear former President Trump will destroy … Read more

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) walks through the Capitol on Feb 10. The House has rejected an attempt to boot him from the House Intelligence Committee. (Joshua Roberts / Associated Press) The House has dismissed a Republican attempt to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell from the chamber’s intelligence panel over his contact more than six years ago … Read more

Mary Ann Roby of Downey votes in the California primary on Monday at the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder’s office in Norwalk. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) will face Republican and former Dodgers All-Star Steve Garvey in the race to be California’s newest senator, and President Biden and former President … Read more

Kari Lake, left, has refused to admit she lost Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial race. Now Wendy Rogers is fueling Lake’s unfounded claims as chair of the Arizona Senate Elections Committee. (Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press; Thomas McKinless / CQ Roll Call) Meet Wendy Rogers. Her political credentials include antisemitism, a hyperactive promotion of outlandish conspiracy … Read more

Rep. Grace Napolitano, center in green, tours a wind farm in Palm Springs. She is one of at least five California members of Congress who live outside the boundaries of their districts. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) It was the spring of 1998. Then-Assemblywoman Grace F. Napolitano was in the middle of a … Read more

How ‘urgent’ texts pushed these donors to give thousands of times to political candidates Sandra has always been active in elections. When she lived in Texas, she served as a poll worker and she continued volunteering when she moved to Orange County around 2016. But this year, she was too busy to complete the training. … Read more

Elon Musk attends the ceremony to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral on Dec. 07, 2024, in Paris. (Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images ) In the six weeks since Donald Trump won the presidential election, Europe has been bracing for a U.S. administration that could strain traditional transatlantic alliances. That sense of … Read more

Donald Trump waves to supporters in Cleveland on Wednesday as he arrives at the Republican National Convention. (AFP/Getty Images) From the start of his campaign, Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America great again,” has captured an aspiration to return the nation to an era when his core audience of working-class whites occupied a more dominant place … Read more