Politics

Healthcare providers monitor women before and after abortions. (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press) Ahead of a historic Supreme Court decision on the fate of Roe vs. Wade, the nation recorded its first significant increase in the abortion rate in more than three decades, according to new statistics. The rate rose 7%, from 13.5 abortions per … Read more

UFC fighter Conor McGregor speaks with reporters in the briefing room of the White House on Monday. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Irish eyes aren’t smiling on Conor McGregor’s St. Patrick’s Day bromance with President Trump. The mixed martial arts fighter’s anti-immigration remarks and criticism of the Irish government during a visit to the White … Read more

President Trump has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington, who recently issued an order blocking deportation flights under wartime authorities from an 18th century law that Trump invoked to carry out his plans. (Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images) President Trump said Tuesday that a federal judge … Read more

Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, where the Tren de Aragua gang originated, in Tocorón, Venezuela, in 2023. (Ariana Cubillos / Associated Press) Debates over President Trump’s hard-line migration policies are focused on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, to some a ruthless transnational criminal organization and to others the pretext for an overhyped anti-migrant … Read more

Faced with an increasingly crowded ballot, election officials across Ventura County spent Friday organizing the hundreds of options that will confront local voters in the Nov. 5 general election. Not only will Ventura County voters help choose a president, they also will consider more than a dozen statewide measures, select a county supervisor, install nine … Read more

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaks to reporters during a break in the impeachment trial of President Trump on Friday. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Even as the Senate grapples with the third impeachment of a president in the nation’s history, ask a Democrat or Republican in Congress about Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator … Read more

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are at the end of a historic campaign for the White House. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) It’s finally over. All but the shouting, vote-counting, finger-pointing, legal wrangling, possible rioting and attempted overthrowing — once more — of our 248-year-old democratic republic. But that’s all in the future. Maybe. … Read more

A determined President Bush, arriving at the 1992 Republican National Convention to rally a party driven to the brink of panic by the apparent collapse of its political fortunes, told cheering supporters Monday: “You’re going to see the most stunning political comeback since Harry Truman gave them hell in 1948!” “It starts right now,” Bush … Read more

Shawn Stevens of Trenton, Mich., plays at home with his 3-year-old daughter, Selena, who has autism. He and his wife work long hours to cover health insurance co-pays. (Robert Gourley / Los Angeles Times) Denise Wall, a Fresno-area schoolteacher with more than $2,000 in medical bills, was outraged to hear she could get free care … Read more

A missile is fired during a joint training exercixe between the U.S. and South Korea at an undisclosed location in South Korea in May 2022. The U.S. has put South Korea on the “Sensitive Country List” despite being an ally. (Associated Press) A revelation that the U.S. Department of Energy has designated South Korea as … Read more