Kashish Bastola, right, hugs fellow Harvard student Nahla Owens outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday after the court struck down race-based affirmative action in college admission decisions. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) In another major reversal, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action policies at colleges and universities that use … Read more
President Trump greets cheering supporters as he arrives Sunday at John Wayne Airport on Air Force One. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) President Trump slipped into Orange County for less than three hours Sunday to raise money for his cash-strapped campaign. His high-dollar fundraiser on exclusive Lido Isle off Newport Beach took place … Read more
How Trump overcame a shooting and an unexpected rival to win a historic second term From the moment he rode a golden escalator downward and into the queasy gut of American political life, Donald Trump has done it his way — unbridled by precedent, often powered by “alternative facts” and dedicated to the proposition that … Read more
On Oct. 20, 1996, Brian Davis wrote a check for $10,000 to a fund controlled by the Democratic National Committee in an effort to help Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Democrats in Congress win reelection. Oddly, Davis was a registered Republican who would not bother to vote in the contest he seemed so eager to … Read more
From the expression on his face and the vigor of his stride, it appeared that Tom Bradley could not wait to get out of City Hall on Thursday. Minutes after the inaugural, as Mayor Richard Riordan and his entourage entered the mayor’s suite, a beaming Bradley slipped out. Twenty years was long enough. With much … Read more
House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Thursday that he believes every American should enjoy the right to life, liberty–and laptop computers. During an appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee–a freewheeling exchange in which he did not so much testify as think aloud for an hour–Gingrich suggested that the poor ought to be given … Read more
Kamala Harris, then California attorney general, addresses the Domestic Human Trafficking symposium in Los Angeles in 2014. As a prosecutor in San Francisco, she specialized in child sexual assault cases. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) At every step of her political career, Kamala Harris has faced the same question: What sort of prosecutor was she? … Read more
Former President Trump raises his fist as he is surrounded by security agents after Saturday’s assassination attempt. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Former President Trump was blanketed by Secret Service agents, blood on his ear, when he raised his fist and appeared to say “fight” three times, creating what is likely to become the most … Read more
Matt Murphy knows it is hard to be a Republican at any college, much less UCLA. “I can’t walk down the quad without someone trying to talk to me about Obama or give me a flier. . . . They want me to drink the Democratic Kool-Aid,” said the 19-year-old freshman who probably will vote … Read more
A federal judge today sentenced former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer and his friend, Dallas stockbroker Billy Bob Harris, to four years in prison for giving false information to the Securities and Exchange Commission during an investigation into their insider trading. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey also levied fines of $5,000 each on … Read more
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