Politics

It’s almost time to hit the polls. Here’s how to do it. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) OK. You’re registered, and election day is almost here. Now what? For first-time voters, the prospect of heading to the polls can seem a little daunting. A recent New York magazine article made waves online when young … Read more

Millions of Californians could soon receive the right to paid leave from their jobs to care for ailing relatives or to bond with new children under legislation that would fundamentally change the contract between employers and employees. Strongly backed by organized labor and vehemently opposed by business, the measure by state Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa … Read more

The possibility that raised a fuss in 1988 at J. Danforth Quayle’s nomination as vice president has become an actuality: The man who skirted Vietnam service by getting into a stateside National Guard unit turned up in Saudi Arabia Dec. 31 to cheer our soldiers on to war. The sting is not so much the … Read more

It was a bad day for George Bush, even in Ronald Reagan’s own back yard. In the posh Bel-Air precinct that the former president calls home, Bill Clinton scored a landslide victory over President Bush. Reagan’s neighbors gave the Democratic challenger 377 votes, or 61.1%–far greater than Clinton’s statewide percentage of 46%. The Republican chief … Read more

Russian asylum seekers warm up by a small fire at the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Ariz., on Dec. 26. (Rebecca Noble / AFP via Getty Images) Inside a tent near the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Jeyson woke up every day for a month before 3 a.m. to fill out applications to request asylum … Read more

First-term Republican Rep. Young Kim is running for reelection in a more conservative Orange County district that has little overlap with her current seat. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) GOP Rep. Young Kim of Orange County has all the elements for a fairly easy path to reelection in November — a gloomy national mood … Read more

The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating whether the former head of the Air National Guard violated federal ethics law by accepting a job as a lobbyist with Boeing Co. only three months after he retired from the military, officials and the former director said. Boeing hired retired Maj. Gen. Paul A. Weaver, 59, in May … Read more

Donald Trump during a town hall Tuesday in Flint, Mich. (Paul Sancya / Associated Press) Days after mingling with wealthy donors in Beverly Hills and the Bay Area, former President Trump said that if he is reelected, he would reinstate a tax break that benefits residents of high-tax states such as California. A cap on … Read more

Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) has again introduced a bill to amend the Constitution to say that those children who willfully or negligently choose illegal aliens for parents will not be citizens of this country, even though they were born on this side of the border. This is one seriously bad idea. One cannot … Read more

Inmates in at least seven California prisons continued a month-long hunger strike in protest of conditions in solitary confinement, an action state prison officials call a ploy to relax controls on gang activity. The state corrections department Wednesday said 346 inmates were on hunger strike, 200 of them refusing meals since July 8. They are … Read more