Former Vice President Kamala Harris, accompanied by her husband, Doug Emhoff, speaks to reporters after meeting with firefighters in Altadena. She’s weighing a bid for California governor. (Carlin Stiehl / For The Times) Michael Duncan was adjusting the screen on his front door when he paused recently to consider what he wants from California’s next … Read more
President Reagan, citing the measure’s high costs, announced Thursday that he was vetoing a major piece of new legislation to clean up the nation’s rivers and lakes over the next eight years. In a “memorandum of disapproval,” the President said he was exercising a pocket veto of the $20-billion Clean Water Act of 1986, which … Read more
President Biden and former President Trump speak at recent campaign appearances. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) President Biden and former President Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for the first … Read more
Four days before the U.S. presidential election, Osama bin Laden appeared on a videotape broadcast worldwide Friday, describing his motives for plotting the Sept. 11 attacks and telling Americans that they can save themselves from future violence by not supporting a crackdown on his Al Qaeda network. Appearing healthy and looking directly into the camera, … Read more
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, shown in June, declared the monkeypox outbreak a national public health emergency on Thursday. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) The Biden administration on Thursday declared the outbreak of monkeypox a national public health emergency in an effort to raise awareness and accelerate efforts to combat it. The move … Read more
The Supreme Court building in Washington. (Associated Press) The Supreme Court strengthened the government’s power to hold in jail immigrants who face deportation, ruling Tuesday that those who illegally reenter the country have no right to a bond hearing. The decision came on a 6-3 vote, with the court’s six conservatives in the majority and … Read more
The Senate confirmed San Francisco gay activist Roberta Achtenberg to be the nation’s top fair housing official Monday, rejecting conservative complaints that her sexual politics rendered her unfit for federal office. Winding up an impassioned debate over gay rights, the Senate voted 58 to 31 to confirm Achtenberg as the first openly declared lesbian to … Read more
Customers and employees of a CarMax in Inglewood were injured in a crash Saturday, police said. Above, a company outlet in Colma, Calif. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press) Eight people were injured Saturday afternoon after a disgruntled customer drove his vehicle into the showroom of a car dealership in Inglewood, police said. The crash occurred … Read more
A military transport plane flies over relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family in Kabul. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) When a comparison was made between the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago and a similar debacle in Vietnam 46 years earlier, President Biden and his administration recoiled. The Afghan capital, Kabul, … Read more
It was the only blemish on the otherwise perfectly manicured White House lawn — a slew of mud-splattered camera tripods, light riggings and umbrellas that marred the famous, leafy Pennsylvania Avenue vista. Now, after a two-month, labor-intensive project, the North Lawn has a new look. Gone is the gravel that gave the area its unofficial … Read more
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