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
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during Monday night’s debate. (Paul J. Richards / AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump said he did a “great job and great service” in raising questions on President Obama’s birthplace, but the GOP nominee continued to stoke doubts about Obama’s heritage long after the president released definitive proof of his Hawaii … Read more
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, right, at a Jan. 11 press conference. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) The union that represents more than 3,000 Los Angeles city firefighters renewed its support for Fire Chief Kristin Crowley on Friday, denouncing an anonymous letter that accused her of mishandling the response to the massively destructive Palisades fire. United … Read more
It appears likely that the AFL-CIO will not endorse a candidate during the primaries, labor leaders gathered here said Wednesday. Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and William H. Wynn, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers, two of the labor federation’s largest affiliates, as well … Read more
FBI agents carry boxes out of a home associated with then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao during a June raid. (MediaNews Group / Getty Images) Federal officials announced Friday that they have indicted former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on bribery charges, along with her longtime boyfriend and a father-son team who run the company on contract for … Read more
Sunset at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 12, 2022. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) For years, Los Angeles city employees could communicate through Google Chat messages that were automatically deleted after 24 hours. Even after the practice, which was sanctioned by the city, was uncovered last year by a community … Read more
Former President Trump with his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, inside the convention hall Monday night. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) J.D. Vance once positioned himself to Republican voters as an alternative to Donald Trump, questioning his ability to solve the problems of average Americans and branding Trump as “cultural heroin.” But in time the … Read more
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, assuming office amid several crises after routing a predecessor who fought to stay in power, and clearing the way for a beleaguered nation to turn the page on one of the most divisive chapters in its political history. Before … Read more
A voter deposits a ballot in the ballot box during election day at Utah’s Barber Shop in Long Beach on June 3, 2014. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) When presidential candidates turn to data crunchers at Rocket Fuel in Silicon Valley for help finding voters who want tougher immigration enforcement, the firm comes up … Read more
In Washington, barely a cross word will cross his lips when President Bush speaks in public about the nation’s capital–its politics, its people, its personality, Democrats and all. He is working very hard at getting along. But just listen to him when he’s west of the Potomac. The tenor shifts. An undercurrent of disdain creeps … Read more
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