A Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center medical records department worker pickets with colleagues in May. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) After months of discussion, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will move forward with emergency statewide standards to address what worker advocates have been calling “an occupational health emergency.” A seven-member board … Read more
Donald Trump speaks Wednesday at a rally in Sacramento. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press ) Donald Trump says he can be the first Republican presidential nominee to win California since 1988, but his rhetoric on immigration, the environment and guns risks pushing the strongly Democratic state even further out of his reach. In recent … Read more
In an act sure to help repair tattered U.S. relations with Israel and American Jewish leaders, President Bush urged the General Assembly on Monday to unconditionally repeal its controversial 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism. “To equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews … Read more
How GOP efforts to restrict trans rights take a page from the antiabortion playbook Bans on treatment. New laws threatening doctors with malpractice suits and criminal charges. Praise from lawmakers who say their legislation is meant to protect minors, even as the new policies infringe on the rights of adults. As state legislatures wind down … Read more
The left is in an uproar. In the wake of the president’s capitulation on the public option, tough financial regulations and Bush tax cuts for the rich, a wailing chorus sees President Obama as unprincipled and spineless, a serial compromiser who never drew a line in the sand he wouldn’t later erase. In the president’s … Read more
I find the hysterical tone of letters in The Times (April 7) regarding the U.S.-Japanese trade deficit very disturbing. A few excitable Americans seem ready to fight another Pacific war, whether it be real or imaginary. Dredged up key words like “Pearl Harbor,” “sneak attack,” and “stab in the back” cannot fail to stir the … Read more
Trump supporters battle law enforcement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (John Minchillo / Associated Press) Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them are allowed to return to the nation’s capital so they … Read more
The Donald Trump who lives at Mar-a-Lago speaks at a news conference. The Donald Trump who lives in Alabama sometimes gets airplane or hotel upgrades because of the shared name. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) There’s not only one Donald Trump in the United States. Nor is there only one William J. Clinton. Plenty of … Read more
A group gathers at Washington’s Franklin Park before the People’s March on Saturday. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press) Eight years since its historic first march, the Women’s March is returning Saturday to the nation’s capital just before President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration. Rebranded and reorganized, the rally has a new name — the People’s March — … Read more
Officials inspect the construction of a stand in the Capitol Rotunda, where President-elect Donald Trump is due to take the oath of office on Monday. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) Donald Trump will return to Washington on Saturday to kick off days of pageantry around his second inauguration as president, four years after he departed … Read more
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