Policies put in place by President Trump are prompting concern among international tourists over spending top dollar on vacations to America that may end up disrupted, or never materialize.| Los Angeles Times
Hamas' tactics are brutal and shocking, but its goal of ending Israel's occupation is widely shared among Palestinians.| Los Angeles Times
President Biden condemns the militant group Hamas for its attack on Israel, and confirms that Americans are believed to be among the hostages.| Los Angeles Times
U.S. military advisors are taking ground-war lessons from Iraq to talks with Israel. Whether Israel will take the advice is unclear.| Los Angeles Times
Biden will travel to the Middle East in a show of support for Israel, but concerns over a humanitarian crisis could overshadow the visit.| Los Angeles Times
War in the Middle East risks escalation yet again as Israel bombed targets in Iran in a spiraling pattern of attack and retaliation inflaming the region.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli-Hamas war has been the main source of division at the Democratic National Committee in Chicago.| Los Angeles Times
Protestors railed on Tuesday against an Orange County congresswoman who could be a critical vote on President Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars that helped pay for healthcare for those in need.| Los Angeles Times
We answer reader questions on how California's proposed single-payer healthcare plan would work.| Los Angeles Times
California's governor has firmly responded to Trump's provocation and repeated assaults on the state. But it's foolhardy to talk about him as any sort of front-runner for the White House in 2028.| Los Angeles Times
A poll finds that 68% of registered voters in California disapprove of the president’s job performance and believe the country is on the wrong track.| Los Angeles Times
Around the country, lawmakers are seeking to undermine or nullify voter-approved ballot measures. California's voters took redistricting away from the politicians. Newsom wants it back.| Los Angeles Times
The last time Donald Trump was president, California led the liberal resistance to his agenda. Now it is poised to reprise the role.| Los Angeles Times
The rebels who toppled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad trace their roots to Al Qaeda and Islamic State. They say they've changed.| Los Angeles Times
In a rare, direct threat, Biden administration says Israel has 30 days to step up deliveries of food, medicine as Gaza faces massive starvation.| Los Angeles Times
The conflict between U.S.-backed Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah could reach unprecedented levels of danger and destruction if it becomes all-out war.| Los Angeles Times
California and other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over a measure aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide.| Los Angeles Times
In announcing the states’ lawsuit, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said the 'unprecedented' demand 'violates all kinds of state and federal privacy laws' and 'further breaks the trust between the federal government and the people it serves.'| Los Angeles Times
President Trump's first 100 days in his second term have been a blitz of executive orders, job and spending cuts, and global tariffs, in pursuit of expanded presidential power.| Los Angeles Times
In its first 100 days, California has challenged the Trump administration multiple times, while backing other litigants against the federal government in even more cases.| Los Angeles Times
A behind-the-scenes look at the months-long effort to resist President Trump's agenda inside California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's office.| Los Angeles Times
Democrats are demanding answers about a shifting work focus, diminished staffing and demands of Trump loyalty within the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, including from the Californian at its helm.| Los Angeles Times
With Kamala Harris out of the California governor's race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner. Some analysts said that's "ludicrous," and that no one stands out yet.| Los Angeles Times
The 2026 governor's race is in suspended motion as donors and powerful Democratic interests await former Vice President Kamala Harris' decision about whether she will enter the contest.| Los Angeles Times
Porter focused on protecting Californians from President Trump's policies, a theme that is expected to be a throughline in next year's gubernatorial contest.| Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.| Los Angeles Times
Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.| Los Angeles Times
Anyone unconvinced about a New York-California rivalry had some tough evidence to overcome Monday, as both states moved to enact minimum wage hikes to $15 an hour, the highest in the country, within hours of one another.| Los Angeles Times
In addition to a precarious presidential election and high-stakes U.S House races, California voters in November will also weigh in on a slew of statewide ballot measures that could significantly shape policy.| Los Angeles Times
The Senate gave final approval to a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through Sept. 30. The GOP-backed measure cleared a key hurdle with help from 10 Democratic senators.| Los Angeles Times
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending bill to prevent a midnight Friday government shutdown.| Los Angeles Times
Rep. David Valadao faces the difficult task of reassuring constituents in his Central Valley district that he will stave off cuts to Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program.| Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration barred undocumented immigrants from Head Start and other federal benefit programs — a move California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta called 'cruel.'| Los Angeles Times
In a letter, the Long Beach Democrat asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to produce documents around cuts to HIV/AIDS funding under the Trump administration.| Los Angeles Times
The top vaccine official criticized the nation's top health official for letting 'misinformation and lies' to guide his thinking on vaccination safety.| Los Angeles Times
Afraid to leave their homes, some immigrants are digitizing major aspects of their lives while others attempt to go off-grid.| Los Angeles Times
Immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles are 'ongoing,' a Homeland Security official said.| Los Angeles Times
California is receiving a slightly larger share of a federal program earmarking $300 million nationwide for migrant-assistance programs.| Los Angeles Times
Migrant arrests near Texas plummeted in January compared to the same month a year ago, but they soared at entry points in California and Arizona.| Los Angeles Times
During his annual pre-Super Bowl news conference last week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sidestepped a question about President Trump’s complaints that the game had gone soft, insisting, “We have a lot of fans, the president among them.”| Los Angeles Times
A mechanic and a political outsider, Dan Osborn ran as an independent and almost won a U.S. Senate seat last year. He's started a Working Class Heroes Fund to get other blue-collar workers to run for office.| Los Angeles Times
The historically Black neighborhood of Lindsay Heights is only few miles away from the Republican National Convention. But the vitriol and partisan politics of the presidential race aren't what's on the mind of its residents.| Los Angeles Times
After Alabama’s governor signed a near-total ban on abortion into law last week, a surge of women interested in running for office contacted Emily’s List, a women’s political group.| Los Angeles Times
Former Democratic Rep. Katie Hill of Santa Clarita is pushing to make revenge porn a federal crime.| Los Angeles Times
In his revised budget proposal, Gov. Gavin Newsom lays out his plan to shrink California’s yawning deficit. Here's what's in it.| Los Angeles Times
California will help lead a coalition of states in suing to block a White House budget office order halting "all federal financial assistance."| Los Angeles Times
Democratic divides over the ongoing bloody conflict in the Middle East were on display this week as gubernatorial candidates made their pitches to politically active Jewish Californians.| Los Angeles Times
The House took a trio of votes this week targeting California’s decades-old authority to enforce its own environmental standards, setting the stage for a significant standoff in the U.S. Senate.| Los Angeles Times
The U.S. should be well-positioned to sway Israel and Arab allies in containing the crushing Gaza war. But the Biden administration's efforts are falling short.| Los Angeles Times
Israel routinely turned aside U.S. requests regarding Gaza and Lebanon, but the attack on Iran was different.| Los Angeles Times
Latest vote counts for Prop 32 raising minimum wage, Prop 36 addressing crime, Prop 33 expanding rent controls and more| Los Angeles Times
California is joining a coalition of states in suing the Trump administration over massive cuts to AmeriCorps, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said.| Los Angeles Times
Xavier Becerra, who served as California attorney general, joined a growing field of Democrats running next year to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.| Los Angeles Times
Donald Trump's decisive presidential victory was confirmed after he picked up the battleground states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.| Los Angeles Times
Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.| Los Angeles Times
California and other states are suing the Trump administration over plans to cut billions of dollars in grants designed to make states more resilient to infectious disease.| Los Angeles Times
Democrats are hopeful their party's road to recovery lies in the price of eggs.| Los Angeles Times
For first time in 25 years, San Diego is the top spot in the nation for migrant border crossings, surpassing Tucson.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump's administration, with help from the Republican-led Congress, may pull the state's ability to set its own fuel-efficiency rules.| Los Angeles Times
Conversations with an assortment of residents show most have no clue who's running in 2026. But they want someone fully committed to the job and not treating the governorship as a stepping stone to the White House.| Los Angeles Times
A decade ago, L.A. County overwhelmingly approved Prop. 47, which turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors. This November, the county overhauled it and supported Nathan Hochman for district attorney.| Los Angeles Times
Trump scores a decisive victory over Harris, completing an extraordinary political comeback. Follow live coverage and results of the 2024 election.| Los Angeles Times
Joe Sanberg was a bit flummoxed.| Los Angeles Times
Rather than confronting Trump, California's governor is showing restraint and using flattery to ensure the state gets the federal disaster relief it needs and deserves. That's a smart strategy.| Los Angeles Times
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are neck and neck in the 2024 presidential contest.| Los Angeles Times
Israel began a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, vowing a limited operation targeting Hezbollah militants. Iran responded with a missile strike.| Los Angeles Times
A cease-fire deal, announced by U.S. and Qatari mediators, promises to end more than a year of conflict in Gaza Strip. Some Israeli hostages would be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners under the agreement.| Los Angeles Times
Israel may ratchet up the bloodshed in the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts as President Biden departs and before successor Donald Trump is sworn in.| Los Angeles Times
The sudden war in Israel and Gaza upends political calculations as violence hits a scale not seen in decades.| Los Angeles Times
President-elect Donald Trump said on his Truth Social platform that Gov. Gavin Newsom "is trying to KILL our Nation’s beautiful California." Newsom calls it Trump's "tired, old playbook of grievances."| Los Angeles Times
President Biden announces that he will step aside, opening a path for a new Democratic presidential nominee.| Los Angeles Times
'Mom, are we going to have to run?' Here's how the first 24 hours of our unprecedented conflagration unfolded across L.A. County| Los Angeles Times
President Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a speaker at the UnidosUS annual conference broadcast on the White House’s YouTube channel.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump signed executive orders that will fundamentally change how the nation handles immigration, beefing up enforcement and deportations.| Los Angeles Times
Urging restraint won't work, given the scale of the Palestinian attacks. How far will further escalation go?| Los Angeles Times
Migrants, cartels and crosses can be seen along Arizona's border wall with Mexico. The state is at the center of our immigration debate before the Nov. 5 election.| Los Angeles Times
Those who worked with Kamala Harris when she was San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general say her approach to being a prosecutor was nuanced and defies labels.| Los Angeles Times
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A new timeline from President Trump's doctors, if accurate, would mean Trump held events while knowing he was sick, potentially exposing supporters, employees and others. The White House quickly tried to walk back some of the comments.| Los Angeles Times
The case of one girl's being shuffled from hotel to hotel, alone and cut off from family and counsel, illustrates Trump's policy of deporting migrant children.| Los Angeles Times
The administration refuses to release migrant kids to ready sponsors, telling courts that custody is safer — even as it ramps up deportation efforts.| Los Angeles Times
Homeland Security officials say CDC guidance on coronavirus and 'public health' outweigh U.S. laws that protect asylum seekers and migrant children.| Los Angeles Times
The prospect of a universal single-payer healthcare system in California — in which the state covers all residents’ healthcare costs — has enthralled liberal activists, exasperated business interes| Los Angeles Times
Police shootings and Black Lives Matter pulled Kamala Harris in opposite directions in 2016, as a black woman and California's then-attorney general.| Los Angeles Times
In collaboration with the radio program "This American Life," The Times takes an exclusive, front-line look at a much-criticized Trump administration policy to restrict asylum -- the Migrant Protection Protocols -- from the perspective of the asylum officers implementing it.| Los Angeles Times
Uber has made Kamala Harris' brother-in-law Tony West its public face in its clash over a bill she backs aimed at boosting wages and benefits for its drivers.| Los Angeles Times
A high-profile effort to establish a single-payer healthcare system in California sputtered Friday when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) decided to shelve the proposal.| Los Angeles Times
