Vice President Kamala Harris is interviewed by members of the National Assn. of Black Journalists on Tuesday in Philadelphia. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday called former President Trump’s false claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are stealing and eating pets “a crying shame” and sharply criticized her opponent for … Read more
Donald Trump speaks to the Las Vegas Police Protective Assn. on Sept. 14, 2024. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) Robert A. Pape, a political scientist who studies political violence, has little doubt that former President Trump has made more incendiary comments than Vice President Kamala Harris. The problem, however, is what his research tells him: … Read more
On the heels of a $44-million computer snafu at the state Department of Motor Vehicles, the legislative analyst warned Tuesday that a lack of adequate management controls over state computer systems is producing duplication and waste that undermines the state’s $1-billion-a-year computer investment. The report says that the $44 million for a Department of Motor … Read more
President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. HBO’s “Stopping the Steal” follows Trump’s attempts to subvert the election, leading up to the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. (Evan Vucci / AP) Getting folks to watch a documentary about the Big Lie is a Big Ask. Who wants to relive that horrible chapter in America’s political history, … Read more
Nine bills that Gov. Pete Wilson intended to veto will become law because the governor’s staff left the measures on a Capitol copying machine, failing to deliver them on time to the offices of the Assembly and Senate, Wilson’s office acknowledged Tuesday. Several measures are technical in nature, but a few bills are significant, including … Read more
Marianne Viviano, 60, walks with her dog “Peter Chocolate,” down steps inside the Madison Hotel in December 2022 in Skid Row. Building tenants settled a long-running class-action lawsuit over conditions at the property in September 2024. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times) The nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation will pay current and former tenants of a Skid Row … Read more
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks at a press conference at Springfield City Hall alongside Ohio State Highway Patrol Colonel Charles Jones, left, Director of the Department of Public Safety Andy Wilson, second from right, and Springfield City School Superintendent Robert Hill, right, in Springfield, Ohio, on Monday. (Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos / Associated Press) Ohio stationed state … Read more
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, right, California’s First Partner and wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, with California Surgeon General Dr. Diana Ramos, left, speaks at USC in 2023. Siebel Newsom and Ramos have announced an initiative aimed at reducing the maternal mortality rate in California. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times) California’s surgeon general has unveiled a new initiative … Read more
Part of the negotiations for Sunday’s debate between Democrat Michael S. Dukakis and Republican George Bush came down to a spat over a few inches–resolved today with a compromise that will have the candidates standing at lecterns of different heights. A Bush campaign source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was agreed that the … Read more
Kevin Costner, James Garner, Johnny Depp, James Earl Jones, Chuck Norris, Cameron Diaz. You guessed it (no, you probably did not). This is a partial roster of the people included in Wikipedia’s “List of People of Self-Identified Cherokee Ancestry,” which, inexplicably, does not include Elizabeth Warren. Yet. Warren’s candidacy for Senate in Massachusetts took a … Read more
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