Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) speaks with reporters after a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus in January 2020. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call) Twenty years ago, Rep. Barbara Lee stood before her House colleagues and pleaded with them not to give President Bush a blank check to wage war against the remote, lawless nation accused … Read more
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu stands at the podium on the abbreviated first day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) Republicans hope to use their convention to spotlight some of the party’s rising Latino stars — Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico … Read more
The Bush administration is strongly considering nominating veteran Republican Rep. Christopher Cox of Newport Beach and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl for highly coveted seats on the federal appeals court based in San Francisco, according to political and legal sources. The staunchly conservative Cox, 48, is an honors graduate of Harvard … Read more
Assemblyman Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, will be one of the leaders of a group of moderate Democrats. (Rich Pedroncelli / AP) The informal but increasingly powerful cadre of business-aligned Democrats in the Legislature tapped two assemblymen to lead their caucus Tuesday afternoon after last week’s decision by the group’s current chairman to leave office at the … Read more
Absentee ballots are prepared for mailing Sept. 3 at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C. The state began sending out more than 600,000 absentee ballots requested by voters the next day. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press) Election day? Try election week. Election officials and the media are preparing for delays in 2020 … Read more
A voting machine set up for Michigan’s primary election in August 2022. Trump supporters convinced election officials or law enforcement to give them access to election machines in several counties, including in Michigan. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) As news trickled out that former President Trump’s supporters had organized to access federally protected election … Read more
Donald Trump speaks at an election-eve rally in Reading, Pa. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) A convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender is returning to the White House. A candidate who spoke of using the military against political foes and called for the summary execution of his critics will again be commander in chief. A … Read more
Former President Trump is covered by Secret Service agents following a shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) How could a gunman get so close to presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, coming within inches of killing him at a Pennsylvania rally? That is perhaps the biggest … Read more
The Veterans Affairs Facility in Los Angeles is one of the underused sites. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) The federal government spends more than $1.7 billion a year to maintain 770,000 empty buildings while other agencies are leasing or buying new space, and Rep. Jeff Denham is fed up. “This is something that hasn’t … Read more
Dorothy and Toto, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West, are all magical figures out of one of America’s most loved movies. But “The Wizard of Oz” was, and is, much more than a children’s fantasy. As conceived and written by Lyman Frank Baum in 1900, … Read more
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