SACRAMENTO — Despite a plea from the head of the California Democratic Party for underperforming candidates to drop out of the governor’s race, all but one of the party’s top hopefuls spurned the request. Party leaders fear the growing possibility that the crowded field will split the Democratic electorate in the state’s June top-two primary election and…
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) is preparing for President Trump to declare a national emergency in order to seize control of this year’s midterm elections from the states, including by bracing his Senate colleagues for a vote in which they would be forced to either co-sign on the power grab or resist it. In the wake…
Israel and the United States launched an air campaign against Iran on Saturday, striking across the country in what President Trump says was a “massive and ongoing operation” aimed at razing Iran’s military and nuclear capabilities, thwarting Tehran’s support to proxies and the destruction of its theocratic government. The attacks spurred a furious Iranian retaliation,…
California may be losing two of the state’s most famed residents and generous political donors. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg recently moved to New York and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is eyeing purchasing a new property in Florida, stirring speculation about whether their decisions are tied to a proposed new tax on California billionaires to fund healthcare…
California is suing the Trump administration over its termination of billions of dollars in funding for high-profile clean energy projects awarded under President Biden, state officials announced Wednesday. It is California’s 58th lawsuit against the president since he resumed office last year. The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
In recent weeks, Marin County Registrar Natalie Adona has been largely focused on the many mundane tasks of local elections administrators in the months before a midterm: finalizing voting locations, ordering supplies, facilitating candidate filings. But in the wake of unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to intervene in state-run elections, Adona said she has…
Over the last decade, the Los Angeles Police Department sent employees to Israel to train or be trained by the country’s counterterrorism experts on at least nine occasions. But officers who attended these training sessions and dozens of other overseas seminars and conferences routinely failed to document what they learned or keep track of who…