Politics

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in March after touring the Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Vice President Kamala Harris’ big economics speech this week didn’t break much new ground on policy, but did give a clear sense of which voters she’s targeting in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. Harris … Read more

Inside the elegant, restored Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a scene last week dramatized a tragic side of the campaign against the Lyndon LaRouche AIDS initiative that makes it different from every other political fight in America this year. The campaign’s chief strategist, David Mixner, was pitching for money to a group of gay political leaders, some … Read more

Democrat Barbara Boxer, one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate, is treading a centrist path as the issue of gay marriage roils the race to select a Republican to challenge her in November. With a procession of gay weddings continuing at San Francisco City Hall — to the outcries of her GOP … Read more

Kamala Harris talks with John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, right, and Blaine Bennett, the border patrol agent in charge of the Douglas station, on Friday. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) Amid relentless criticism from former President Trump that she is responsible for out-of-control illegal immigration, … Read more

Atty Gen. Merrick Garland, flanked by Matt Graves, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, left, and Ronald Davis, director of the U.S. Marshals Service, announces criminal charges against Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday against three Iranian operatives … Read more

In the first major policy address of his unofficial presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore on Sunday unveiled a sweeping agenda for education reform that he argued would bring “revolutionary change to America’s schools.” In a commencement address at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa–the state that hosts the first major contest in next year’s presidential … Read more

Former President Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump Tower in New York on Friday. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / Associated Press) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met face-to-face with Donald Trump on Friday days after the former president and current Republican nominee condemned U.S. support for Ukraine‘s defense against Russia’s invasion. “We both want … Read more

President Bush came under criticism from a senior Senate Democrat on Thursday after a newspaper report that the U.S. government and a representative of Bush’s reelection campaign helped draft Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s speech to Congress last week. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said in a letter to Bush that the report … Read more

WHEN THE Supreme Court decided seven weeks ago in Kelo vs. New London to loosen constitutional restraints on local governments taking your house and selling it to Wal-Mart, it triggered a wave of public revulsion from New England to South Los Angeles. Ninety-three percent of Granite State residents in a University of New Hampshire poll … Read more

Speaking from Guatemala’s capital with its president at her side, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a stark message Monday to would-be migrants from Central America, saying they “will be turned back” if they attempt to cross the U.S. border illegally. Harris, on her first foreign trip as vice president, also gently chided her host, Guatemalan … Read more