Politics

U.S. Capitol Police are deployed at the legislative building in Washington on Nov. 4, 2024. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Republicans are expected to retake control of the U.S. Senate, creating obstacles for Vice President Kamala Harris if she is elected president and a potential glide path for former President Trump’s agenda if he … Read more

Is California’s ‘Hydrogen Highway’ a road to nowhere? Soon after Maribel Munoz joined the trailblazing ranks of American owners of hydrogen cars — a group that exists only in California — she began to fear that the low price of the taxpayer-subsidized Toyota Mirai she purchased came with a tremendous cost. “You can’t have a … Read more

When Elizabeth Malone announced to her friends that she had become a homeowner, they gathered to celebrate. Malone’s newly purchased townhouse in Panorama City was more than a tax write-off. It was a milestone in her life and she’d done it on her own. “I had a hard time getting lenders to take me seriously, … Read more

twitterfacebookenvelopeangle-double-rightangle-downangle-uplong-arrow-right The morning after election day, voters had learned the results of the presidential race — called once the president-elect received 270 electoral votes — and that Republicans had won control of the U.S. Senate. But a week later, many House races are still too close to call. The Associated Press surveys the numbers posted … Read more

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) had threatened to vote against the Democratic package unless the unemployment benefit was lowered. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Senate Democrats got a reminder of the political realities of their narrow majority Friday when the COVID-19 relief bill they had unveiled a day earlier had to be scaled back and … Read more

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) with Republican House leaders at a news conference Tuesday. President-elect Donald Trump has abruptly rejected the bipartisan plan to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) A government shutdown at risk, House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting to figure out how to meet President-elect … Read more

‘Dripping with money’: A look behind the gated affluence of Trump’s Palm Beach Laurel Baker steered her dark-blue sport utility vehicle through this tony resort town, studded on all sides with tall hedges and metal gates offering stingy glimpses of spectacular mansions. Private entrances to private beaches read: NO TRESPASSING and KEEP OUT. Sidewalks are … Read more

Trump voters Ashley Wright, left, and Audrey Kaatz work at a beauty salon in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Caitlin O’Hara / For The Times) When Audrey Kaatz and Ashley Wright finally decided whom to support for president, they kept the choice to themselves. They admired his business sense and blunt-spoken style. But voting for Donald Trump was … Read more

College Prof. Bill Allen, one of the minor candidates in the crowded GOP Senate primary, withdrew from the race today and urged his followers to vote for TV commentator Bruce Herschensohn. Allen, a professor of government at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont and one of two black candidates in the primary for the nomination to … Read more

Mike Mansfield, who was the U.S. Senate’s longest-serving majority leader and a champion of landmark civil rights legislation during the 1960s, has been called the greatest living American. But according to him, such praise might have been better heaped on a woman he met in the late 1920s, when he was a high school dropout … Read more