Former Florida attorney general and lobbyist Pam Bondi speaks at a Trump rally in Greensboro, N.C., early this month. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, was chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney general hours after his first choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration after a … Read more
A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school in Murphy, Texas. The state’s education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools. (LM Otero / Associated Press) Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools, joining other Republican-led states that pushed this year to give religion a larger … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers want the hush money case against him to be immediately dismissed. Prosecutors have indicated that they’re open to putting the case on hold, perhaps as long as Trump is in office. (Brandon Bell / Pool photo) A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump will not be sentenced this month in … Read more
Back in 1988, when Scott Reed was field director for Jack Kemp’s unsuccessful White House run, many of the twentysomething go-getters struggling to gain a toehold in politics came away from that bewilderingly disorganized campaign with one certain belief–their candidate might be going nowhere, but Reed would one day be the man in charge of … Read more
Demonstrators at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, display items recovered from extreme weather events. (Sergei Grits / Associated Press) With so much chaos in the world, from the United States’ slide toward authoritarianism to the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine, you could be forgiven for not being focused on what’s going on … Read more
The TikTok logo on a cellphone. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press) The fate of TikTok in the U.S. has been up in the air since 2020, when President Donald Trump moved to ban the popular video app because of national security concerns. That set off four years of back-and-forth between the app’s Chinese owners and … Read more
Chispa members Hairo Cortes, left, Bulmaro Vicente, Hector Bustos and Jennifer Rojas in downtown Santa Ana. (Michael Blackshire/Los Angeles Times) The $254,000 that Chispa spent in this year’s most expensive U.S. House race barely registers as a drop in the proverbial bucket. The money, which the Santa Ana-based nonprofit used to campaign for Democrat Derek … Read more
Dogs available for adoption look out of their kennels at the Chesterfield Square/South Los Angeles animal shelter in August. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Jake, a tawny 2-year-old mutt in L.A.’s West Valley shelter, wasn’t doing well. After six months at the shelter, he was running back and forth and jumping in his kennel. … Read more
Even in a state known for crafting first-in-the-nation progressive laws and leading on reproductive rights, men have long outnumbered women in the California Legislature. The Capitol’s male-dominated culture was evident when hundreds of women spoke out about sexual harassment during the #MeToo movement. Then came the shocking image of a masked lawmaker carrying her newborn … Read more
Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in a behind-the-scenes photo from the show “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. (MIller Hawkins) Last week in Columbus, Ohio, a dozen or so people marched through the city waving Nazi flags and yelling racial epithets. Disturbing, to be sure, and a grim sign of the times. But almost as troubling … Read more
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