Politics

President Trump pauses during a news conference Sunday at the White House. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) President Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in the New York Times. Trump, who has fiercely … Read more

Publishing magnate Malcolm S. (Steven) Forbes Jr. said Wednesday that he will enter the Republican presidential race, using his personal fortune to campaign for higher economic growth and lower taxes. “I’m going to do it,” he said in a telephone interview from his office in Bedminster, N.J. “The need is there.” Forbes, a soft-spoken multimillionaire, … Read more

It looks disgusting, like a severed human tongue, and it secretes sticky slime. Yet it has become a college mascot, and now a state legislator is bucking to give this seemingly ignoble creature instant respectability by elevating it to the enviable status of–are you sitting down?–California’s official mollusk. Yes, the lowly banana slug, a snail … Read more

Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee was long seen as the front-runner in Oakland’s special mayoral election. But Loren Taylor had closed her lead in recent weeks by appealing to disillusioned voters frustrated with the status quo. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / Associated Press) Former City Councilmember Loren Taylor took a very slim lead in early results … Read more

A federal grand jury Thursday delivered the first indictment in a wide-ranging criminal investigation of corruption in Los Angeles city government, alleging that a former public relations executive at Fleishman-Hillard defrauded city agencies and private clients. The indictment accuses John Stodder Jr., a partner and senior vice president who ran the firm’s local public affairs … Read more

They had spent the morning on the arena floor at the Anaheim Convention Center voting on resolutions that would become a part of the state Parent-Teacher Assn.’s agenda in the coming year. The resolutions–ranging from concern over the location of toxic and hazardous material sites to limiting the sale of alcohol at gas station mini-markets–were … Read more

Donald Trump Jr. onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Friday. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) When she walked onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the room erupted in raucous applause. It was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman from Georgia known for her steadfast loyalty to … Read more

Rick Cole and his new employer, the city of Azusa, have one thing in common: an image problem. Cole, who will start work as Azusa’s city manager in July, is a former Pasadena mayor known for his razor-sharp mind and switchblade tongue. Azusa is an often overlooked town with a name derived from the Shoshone … Read more

The Supreme Court, in an unusual drug case, ruled Tuesday that the government may force prison inmates to take mind-altering drugs against their will. On a 6-3 vote, the court said that the Constitution does not give inmates a right to refuse to take the drugs. Rather, it is up to prison officials, not inmates … Read more

A wife is obligated to provide nursing care to an ill husband and has no right to compensation for performing that duty, a state Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday. The panel, over a sharp dissent chiding the majority for outdated notions, voted 2 to 1 to invalidate a contract in which a San Francisco Bay … Read more