The nights are long this time of year in Kasilof, Alaska, a small community of about 500 people south of Anchorage. And for Keith Laurie, they’re just a little bit longer. His 15-year-old son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes five years ago. A year later, Laurie, 56, lost his job with a chemical manufacturer. … Read more
The California Department of Insurance on Wednesday identified half a dozen insurance companies that issued slavery-era policies and posted the names of hundreds of slave owners and the slaves they insured on the agency’s Web site. For advocates of paying reparations to the descendants of slaves, the report provides a compendium of material that could … Read more
Trump orders federal agencies to recognize only two sexes that are ‘not changeable’ President Trump signed executive orders Monday asserting that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes that are “not changeable,” and reversing Biden administration directives on LGBTQ+ rights. One of the new orders says that “male” and “female” are defined based on reproductive … Read more
President Trump holds the hand of his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, after taking the oath of office. (Morry Gash / Associated Press) Hello and happy Tuesday. President Trump was sworn in to his second term on a cold but sunny Washington afternoon Monday, offering up multiple speeches that predictably veered from written-by-others remarks on … Read more
Some denounce it, some embrace it, and some say it simply isn’t a priority, but pork-barrel politicking has enabled San Fernando Valley-area congressmen to bring home more than $65 million in federal funds for hometown projects in the past three years. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Panorama City) is proud of his record in helping obtain … Read more
President Trump wants to unravel President Obama’s landmark agreement with Cuban President Raul Castro, above, whom Obama met in Havana in 2016. (Ramon Espinosa / Associated Press) The Trump administration is considering restoring Cuba to the list of nations the U.S. accuses of sponsoring terrorism, an apparent effort to muddle President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump not only alleged widespread national voter fraud in a series of messages posted on Twitter on Sunday, but took the time in one tweet to target the ballots cast in California as an example of the problem. Trump called the fraud “serious” in the state, along with Virginia and New Hampshire, and … Read more
Liz Cheney is ‘riding for the brand’ in D.C. But back in Wyoming, the brand may be Trump Before she voted to impeach President Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney could depend on votes from Jon Nicolaysen. His family is ingrained into the DNA of Wyoming. P.C. Nicolaysen arrived around 1880, when the land was still a … Read more
Former Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, the powerful Arkansas congressman whose career was destroyed by a stripper’s plunge into Washington’s Tidal Basin, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack. He was 82. Mills collapsed at his home in Kensett, Ark., and was taken to White County Memorial Hospital here, where efforts to revive him failed, said … Read more
President Trump crosses the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One earlier this month. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) Under intense bipartisan pressure, President Trump on Sunday signed a sweeping coronavirus relief and spending bill — the denouement of a days-long drama over whether he would allow millions of Americans to endure … Read more
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