Politics

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

A person uses a Juul vape pen. (Getty Images) By the time Juul’s co-creator stood before a tech audience in April 2016, ads for the e-cigarette aimed to distance the product from a toxic past: “Our company has its roots in Silicon Valley, not in fields of tobacco.” But when James Monsees, a soon-to-be billionaire, … Read more

Is Newt Gingrich Seamus — er, shameless? As the former House speaker fights for his campaign life in South Carolina, he’s pulled out all the stops to try and slow Mitt Romney down. He’s ripped Romney’s private-sector record as a venture capitalist. He’s hammered Romney’s work as Massachusetts governor. And now, he’s let the dog … Read more

Republican Steve Garvey, left, is the target in Rep. Adam B. Schiff’s new TV ad. Some of Schiff’s fellow Democrats are crying foul. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times; Jose Luis Magana / AP ) Adam B. Schiff is running a new TV spot in his bid for U.S. Senate, and to hear the outcry … Read more

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed President Bush’s nominations of attorneys Percy Anderson and Jack Walter to become federal district court judges in Los Angeles. Anderson, 52, and Walter, 57, were tapped for federal judgeships by Bush’s father in 1992. However, their nominations died without action by the Senate in the waning days of his … Read more