A wealthy Republican businessman from San Marino who finished third in the California lieutenant governor’s race during the June primary is in a legal and financial dispute with a campaign consultant after his failure to make the general election. Cole Harris, who received attention for social media posts showing him posing on a yacht, in … Read more
As negotiations for a global climate change convention entered their final stages in Copenhagen, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sat down with Times Foreign Editor Bruce Wallace to discuss the prospects for a deal, and whether rich nations are looking to curb the United Nations’ role in overseeing the billions of dollars that may be transferred … Read more
Mark Baldassare, center, of the Public Policy Institute of California, applauds at the end of the debate he moderated between state Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday in San Francisco. (Ben Margot / Associated Press) Senate candidate Kevin de León has campaigned as the progressive alternative to Sen. … Read more
Voter information guides for the 2020 election in Santa Ana. (Getty Images) In California, where a ballot often contains pages of candidates and initiatives, most voters rely on the state-provided guide for election information, a new poll has found. But with so much at stake, Californians also seek out information from a variety of other … Read more
President Biden, shown speaking at the White House on Wednesday, says his administration’s vaccine mandates will help get the country through the pandemic. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) The Biden administration believes mandating COVID-19 vaccines is the best way to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and deaths and get the U.S. economy on more solid footing. … Read more
Jessica Bell takes a video as the Dixie fire burns along Highway 70 in Plumas National Forest, Calif., on July 16, 2021. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) Storm-ravaged Californians are still digging out from historic levels of snowfall and girding for more heavy rain this week. But Biden administration officials are looking ahead to a … Read more
In the summer of 1959, everyone could see that Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey was going places. Beautiful and brainy, she had edited the yearbook, joined the science club and graduated near the top of her class. In the fall, she’d be off to college. Her boyfriend, Freddie Thompson, was another story. A year behind Lindsey in … Read more
KABC-TV Los Angeles hosted the 2024 California U.S. Senate Candidate Forum with Republican former Dodger Steve Garvey and Democratic Rep. Adam B. Schiff, left, on Tuesday in Glendale. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The only head-to-head debate this fall in California’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race between Rep. Adam B. Schiff and former Dodger Steve … Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) held a press conference last week on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) President Trump lashed out against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), accusing them of treason and calling for their “impeachment” … Read more
Anyone who lives in Southern California knows how important the Richter scale is. The Richter scale is an agreed-upon benchmark that allows the public to distinguish the seismic seriousness of events and to react accordingly. We need something like a Richter scale for evaluating scandals so we can decide how much energy to devote to … Read more
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