The election of Mike Johnson, right, with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday, ends three weeks of squabbling among House Republicans — and cements their pro-Trump, hard-line faction as the face of the national party. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) Rep. Mike Johnson, a relatively inexperienced Louisiana Republican who fought to overturn the results of … Read more
It would not have been an easy reelection bid in any case for freshman Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Riverside), who barely made it to Congress two years ago. But now Calvert’s biggest reelection hurdle may be his own indiscretions, which also could pose a problem in surviving even his own party’s June primary. The reason: After … Read more
Terry McAuliffe, the most prolific fund-raiser in Democratic Party history, was unanimously elected party chairman Saturday by members who shrugged off his ties to the campaign finance scandals of the Clinton administration. McAuliffe, 43, claimed the post when his sole rival, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, stepped aside after days of negotiations. Under an agreement … Read more
San Francisco was a rough-and-tumble Gold Rush boomtown in 1852, when authorities decided they needed more secure facilities to house troublemakers than the prison ships docked in the bay. So they built a prison at Point San Quentin, an out-of-the way peninsula north of the city. That location made sense 157 years ago; since then, … Read more
The Ambassador Hotel site, foreground, more than 23 acres near downtown Los Angeles, was bought by Trump Wilshire Associates in 1989. Now it’s an LAUSD campus. (Damon Winter / Los Angeles Times) On one side was the alpha male of New York developers who burst into town with pockets full of money, a legion of … Read more
Kamala Harris waves after speaking at a campaign event Wednesday at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday pledged to build an economy that is both pro-business and helps the middle class as she pushed back against Republican nominee Donald Trump ’s claims that she’s advancing … Read more
One year after he fled the country to avoid a prison term, former state Sen. Paul Carpenter was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in a federal penitentiary–the harshest punishment given any of the defendants convicted during a nine-year probe of state government corruption. As Carpenter stood mutely in front of him, an angry … Read more
The Supreme Court gave sweeping approval today to affirmative action plans to help blacks and other minorities get jobs, rejecting the Reagan Administration view that such plans discriminate against whites. The justices, ruling 6 to 3 in a case from Cleveland and 5 to 4 in one from New York, endorsed wide-ranging affirmative action schemes … Read more
Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone leaves the federal courthouse in Washington after Kyle Young, who assaulted Fanone during the Jan. 6 insurrection, was sentenced to seven years in prison. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press) A judge sentenced a Capitol rioter to seven years in prison Tuesday, calling the Iowa man a “one-man … Read more
President Trump talks with White House staff secretary Will Scharf as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Thursday. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) President Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades. The … Read more
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