Politics

Gov. Pete Wilson on Tuesday nominated Kathryn M. Werdegar, an old friend and a conservative state appellate judge, to fill a vacancy on the California Supreme Court. Werdegar, 58, has only three years of judicial experience, serving as a Wilson appointee on the California Court of Appeal in San Francisco. But she worked for six … Read more

Pedestrians make their way past a building housing the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University on Jan. 30, 2019, in Providence, R.I. (Jennifer McDermott / Associated Press) A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported after he ordered that she not be removed until he … Read more

California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris is drawing fire from supporters of an anti-abortion activist whose undercover videos and identity cards were seized by the state Department of Justice this week after Harris’ political campaign sought to drum up support for Planned Parenthood. David Beltran, a spokesman for Harris’ Department of Justice, said the agency would … Read more

The White House says it plans to crack down on the hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors who overstay their U.S. visas, a vast challenge that has largely escaped notice as the Trump administration has focused chiefly on blocking migrants on the southern border. Experts say so-called overstays by students, au pairs, tourists and others … Read more

Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer on Thursday fired a top aide whose repeated anti-Christian, anti-Semitic lectures triggered a week of controversy that immobilized Chicago government and left relations between blacks and Jews strained. “I know that our city continues to suffer serious racial disharmony,” Sawyer said. “We cannot hide from that fact . . . . … Read more

Voices Matt K. Lewis Democrats have four theories to beat Trump. Wish them luck Donald Trump’s presidency has all the stability of a flaming garbage truck careening down a mountain. Yet, somehow, he’s still behind the wheel, grinning like a maniac, while Democrats argue over the best way to file a noise complaint. His administration … Read more

Oakland Raiders fans stand behind a sign in advance of the team’s decision to move to Las Vegas. (Tony Avelar / Associated Press) With the Raiders deciding to leave Oakland for a $1.9-billion football stadium in Las Vegas, the carousel of moves and threats to move by California’s professional sports teams appears to be slowing … Read more

Wealth and struggle in a liberal bubble that Elizabeth Warren calls home Three days into her term as mayor, Sumbul Siddiqui sat behind an empty desk facing a full plate of challenges. She was tired. Her small city, a mash-up of Colonial-era buildings and cutting-edge enterprises, would be the envy of just about anywhere. Crime … Read more

1/13 Joe Biden introduces Kamala Harris as his running mate in Wilmington, Del.  (Getty Images) 2/13 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) 3/13 The candidates arrived wearing masks.  (Drew Angerer / Getty Images) 4/13 Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, right, applaud Joe Biden and his wife, Jill.  (Carolyn Kaster / … Read more

Sen. Alex Padilla in his office on Capitol Hill. The hardest thing about the job, Padilla says, has been the separation from his wife and three kids, who remain home in the San Fernando Valley. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Less than a year and a half in office, Alex Padilla has already made … Read more