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To women like Jessica Morse who are running for office for the first time, the good news isn’t just that Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate this week; it’s that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Closing in on the first major legislative achievement of his term, President Donald Trump on Saturday defended the Republican tax cut as a good deal for the middle class while boldly ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Count commuters among the losers in the Republican tax bill that the House and Senate are expected to vote on next week. The final bill agreed to by Republican negotiators and released ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans' tax package would boost traditional forms of energy such as oil and gas while also supporting renewable energy such as wind and solar power — and even extend a hand ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans didn't get their wish to repeal former President Barack Obama's health care law, but the tax bill barreling toward a final vote in Congress guts its most unpopular ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of quarrels, qualms and then eleventh-hour horse-trading, Republicans revealed the details of their huge national tax rewrite late Friday — along with announcements of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Republican tax overhaul legislation (all times local): 6:45 p.m. The preliminary deficit estimate for the final version of the GOP tax bill says it would add $1.46 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans' tax package would boost traditional forms of energy such as oil and gas while also supporting renewable energy such as wind and solar power — and even extend a hand ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A decision to put the man who handles whistleblower complaints at U.S. spy agencies on administrative leave has raised worries on Capitol Hill that it's part of a plan to hamstring the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee said Friday it had opened an investigation into Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen over allegations of sexual harassment. A former campaign aide said Kihuen, a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ailing Republican senators John McCain and Thad Cochran missed votes this week, but their presence will be crucial early next week as the GOP tries to pass a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is denying reports that he plans to leave Congress after the Republicans' treasured tax bill is approved. Politico and The Huffington Post published stories ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With no firm conclusions yet on whether President Donald Trump's campaign may have coordinated with Russia, the Senate intelligence committee could delay answering that question and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican tax overhaul (all times local): 10:30 p.m. A Democratic senator taking part in talks on the GOP tax package says a provision allowing churches to endorse ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft statement former FBI Director James Comey prepared in anticipation of concluding the Hillary Clinton email case without criminal charges was heavily edited to change the "tone ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has a message for the Justice Department: Try to prosecute me again on corruption charges or drop it. The New Jersey lawmaker, whose bribery trial ended in ...
President Trump came into office promising to change Washington. He has moved aggressively to bring about that change. Here are all the stories The Chronicle has reported on the new administration.
Middle school is confusing enough to navigate when your family life is stable, but for the kids at one Oakland school, it’s been even more difficult since the election. They’ve been asking their ...
When Gov. Jerry Brown shocked California on Dec. 1 by naming Los Angeles Democratic Rep. Xavier Becerra to replace newly elected Sen. Kamala Harris as the state’s attorney general, politicians across ...
With President Trump alleging serious voter fraud in California, and the state’s top election official calling his claim untrue, how much voter fraud is actually under investigation in the Golden State? ...
Supervisor Mark Farrell’s attempt to regulate money in politics may backfire, as nonprofit developers are lining up to oppose what they say is an ill-conceived piece of legislation that would prevent ...
Susan Campodonico hadn’t been out on the street protesting since the Vietnam War. But there she was, standing in front of the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on a Tuesday afternoon, holding a neon green ...
With the most drivers and the dirtiest air, California needs stringent rules to curb tailpipe emissions, a goal that does double duty in also limiting climate change. But the Trump administration is close ...
East Bay officials are getting free tickets to Warriors, Raiders and A’s games through a process that has built-in conflicts of interest, lacks transparency and raises the specter of governmental ...
Mike Levin, a new Congressional candidate in a Southern California swing district, wants to do everything he can to beat the incumbent Republican in 2018 — and to do so, he said, a strong digital and ...
One of the behind-the-scenes losers in the fight to fund new positions in the San Francisco public defender’s office to help immigrants facing deportation may be Francisco Ugarte , husband of new ...
San Francisco could soon have the most sweeping lactation policy in the nation, making it easier for mothers to pump breast milk in the workplace. Supervisor Katy Tang will introduce legislation Tuesday ...
I first heard about Chris Lehane when he was serving as a political strategist for the Clinton White House and I was running Salon, the online publication that burst into the national spotlight with ...
San Francisco supervisors can now get their choice parking spaces in front of City Hall for free, if they so choose. The Budget and Finance Committee voted last month to increase the supervisors’ annual ...
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has worked for environmental nonprofit groups for three decades, was appointed Thursday to the California Coastal Commission, an agency racked by dissension over ...
SACRAMENTO — For years, state health officials kept secret a set of guidelines meant to inform the public about the risks associated with cell phone use and the best practices to avoid potential harm. ...
SACRAMENTO — All single-stall public bathrooms in California must be open to “all genders” starting Wednesday under a state law passed last year to expand the rights of transgender people. The new ...
The Trump administration’s decision to delay federal funding to convert Caltrain from diesel to electric power is already having a ripple effect in San Francisco. The San Francisco Board of ...
SACRAMENTO — In an unusual move, leaders of the California Legislature filed a Freedom of Information Act request to force the Trump administration to release details about recent immigration raids, ...
SACRAMENTO — Concerned about threats by the Trump administration to weaken environmental and whistle-blower protection laws, California lawmakers introduced three bills Thursday to try to keep federal ...
A Republican legislator and Vietnamese refugee was dragged from the state Senate floor Thursday morning when a Democratic leader ordered her removed after she tried to criticize the late Tom Hayden, a ...
In a city where people of all income levels struggle to find housing they can afford, who should get a little government help? Just the very poor or also middle-income residents like teachers and nonprofit ...
SACRAMENTO — California’s poorest families left an estimated $2 billion on the table last year in unclaimed state and federal tax credits designed to give bigger cash refunds to low-income workers. ...
SACRAMENTO — The man behind a campaign to make California its own country is receiving support in Russia from a far-right nationalist group that wants to break up the United States. Yes California ...
If it’s not war, it sure sounds like it. Gov. Jerry Brown unleashed a full-scale attack on President Trump, declaring California won’t give up a string of policies ranging from climate change curbs to ...
Back before the Internet made it so easy to find a celebrity’s age, a 29-year-old actress landed the role of a 17-year-old girl — and helped propel “Beverly Hills 90210” into a hit TV show in the ...
SACRAMENTO — Rep. Xavier Becerra will be sworn in as California’s first Latino attorney general Tuesday after the state Legislature gave final approval to the veteran Los Angeles lawmaker’s interim ...
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee beamed triumphantly at last week’s groundbreaking of the new Warriors arena as he watched his “legacy project” come into being. The moment stood in stark contrast to one ...
Freshly termed-out state Sen. Mark Leno is lacing up his sneakers for a run to become San Francisco’s first openly gay mayor. And in a move that is bound to rattle City Hall, Leno has signed up Mayor ...
SACRAMENTO — Republican lawmakers are calling for audits and congressional hearings to examine the state’s $64 billion high-speed rail project, saying they are concerned about a report that the cost of ...
The first step was taken Saturday in opposition of the new president, and it was sure-footed. An estimated 100,000 people attended the Women’s March in Oakland. The molasses-slow mass stretched for ...
When the new San Francisco Board of Supervisors is sworn in Monday morning, the majority of its members will be of a breed that hasn’t controlled the body in 20 years. Conservatives? Please, this is San ...
As Republicans in Congress start dismantling Obamacare, they run the risk of hurting a particularly vulnerable population in California: a whole lot of people who voted for Donald Trump. In 49 of the ...
Stuart Schuffman , better known as “Broke-Ass Stuart,” has been fined $2,552 by the San Francisco Ethics Commission for campaign finance violations related to his 2015 run for mayor. The commission ...
SACRAMENTO — California legislative leaders upped the ante on their vows to fight attempts by the incoming Trump administration to weaken the state’s climate change, immigration or other policies, ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama's special Senate election on Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President ...
SACRAMENTO — Sen. Toni Atkins is poised to become the first woman to lead the state Senate, receiving support from the Democratic caucus to replace Sen. President Kevin de León, who said he will step ...
SACRAMENTO — Two days after state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León announced he would challenge fellow Democrat U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in next year’s election, a sexual harassment scandal ...
Reporters chased Rep. James Clyburn through the halls of Congress on Wednesday, asking how prominent media figures like Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose could be fired so quickly after accusations of sexual ...
Sometimes the best way to gaze into the future is to look back at the past. The 2018 governor’s election may be one of those times. With California’s vote less than a year away, many of the early ...
Nearly 20 years ago, Berkeley resident Joan Blades co-founded what would become the progressive behemoth MoveOn.org. She and her husband, Wes Boyd, who made a fortune in software, were frustrated that ...
One wants to end the death penalty. The other thinks capital punishment is just. One campaigned for tax increases that the other opposed. One tried to put Hillary Clinton in the White House. The other ...
San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer is bumping up his $20 million effort to get President Trump impeached with a new nationwide ad blasting the president and the Republican-led Congress for their ...
House leadership in Washington can’t count on the California delegation’s full support of the Republican tax bill now before Congress, as a half dozen California GOP members are either opposed to it, ...
While many Democrats have been heralding the election victories in Virginia last week as the start of the party’s revival, others are using them to consider how the national party and other political ...
Tom Steyer thought my idea about what he should do next was terrible. Not just terrible, but unthinkable. I believe the phrase “Joe — no. No way” was used more than once. All I did was suggest that ...
Billionaire San Francisco environmentalist and political donor Tom Steyer pushed back Wednesday after a report that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi considers his $10 million ad campaign calling for ...
While the indictments of three former Trump campaign officials didn’t link the organization to Russian meddling in last year’s election, they will provide Democrats with the next best thing: enough ...
Of the many huge challenges Kevin de León faces in trying to unseat Dianne Feinstein, the toughest is this: How does the state Senate president say it’s time for the 84-year-old U.S. senator to go ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump paid a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge Republicans to pass a $1.5 trillion tax cut proposal by Christmas, as the party faces an array of unappetizing choices to ...
ANAHEIM — California Republicans may not have well-known candidates running for governor — or any candidate of note running for Senate next year. But they’re settling on a two-point game plan for ...
ANAHEIM — Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, expanded his “season of war against a GOP establishment” Friday night by ripping party leaders and adding a new economic enemy — ...
There’s another wealthy, progressive California Democrat besides billionaire San Francisco environmentalist Tom Steyer mulling a 2018 Senate challenge to incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein. His name is Joe ...
Deciding to challenge a California political institution and a leader of his own party will turn out to be the easy part for state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León. He’s about to find out how many ...
When Gretchen Whitmer became the Democratic leader of the Michigan state senate in 2010, she found that there were more men named John (five) in the 38-member body than women (four). Whitmer, 46, recalled ...
It’s not just Republicans — who lack a serious candidate — who were unhappy to see Sen. Dianne Feinstein announce this week that she would be seeking a sixth term. The California Left has been hoping ...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, is again being called on to step down, but this time the request came from a fellow female Californian in a top congressional leadership position. Rep. ...
Here’s some bad news for Democrats ready to spend millions of dollars to persuade working-class white voters to ditch President Trump and vote for them: You’re wasting your money. Turns out that ...
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked Monday if President Trump was considering pursuing any laws that might prevent massacres like the one in Las Vegas. Her answer: “There’s a ...
IRVINE — Help could be on the way for voters frustrated by congressional Republicans who repeatedly attempt to overhaul health care and shrug off the impacts of climate change: A growing number of ...
Prepare for another Sunday of political football — at least during the pregame ceremonies. On one side will be players taking a knee and teams linking arms or skipping the national anthem altogether, ...
FULLERTON — Sitting in an Orange County cafe a few blocks from his home, state Sen. Josh Newman appears remarkably calm, often funny, for someone who is likely facing a recall less than a year after ...
If Gov. Jerry Brown had made a signing statement when he approved California’s latest effort to move the state’s presidential primary near the front of the list, it likely would have been something ...
CNN held a prime-time debate Monday about something that has essentially already been decided: the GOP’s health care overhaul proposal. But knowing that the Senate GOP plan appears to be dead before an ...
WASHINGTON — The latest bill in a seven-year Republican crusade to repeal the Affordable Care Act ended in the Senate on Monday without a vote, when it became clear there was not enough support within ...
President Trump’s decision to pick a racially charged fight with the world of pro football — one of a dwindling number of institutions that unite Americans of all races, classes and religions — ...
WASHINGTON — As Senate Republicans promised to push their latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act to a vote next week, their Democratic counterparts sought Wednesday to take advantage of a ...
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan legislation to crack down on online child sex trafficking is putting Silicon Valley tech companies and California’s two Democratic senators on the spot, as proponents of the ...
It was mostly teenagers doing the shouting, but a number of adults in the audience clapped and chanted in support while the youths hijacked House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi ’s news conference ...
Chanting pro-immigrant slogans — “All of us or none of us,” “Democrats deport” and “We are not a bargaining chip” — more than 60 young people overwhelmed a news conference that House ...
ANAHEIM — For this brief moment in the nation’s history, Orange County is the center of the political universe. Saying that out loud draws incredulous smiles from some people and nods of agreement ...
WASHINGTON — The astonishing new triumvirate of President Trump and Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer may be as fleeting as a tweet, but as of Thursday, their deal-making on ...
Republican state Sen. Andy Vidak of Hanford (Kings County), whose rural Central Valley district is 73 percent Latino, thinks President Trump’s proposed deal with Democrats to protect undocumented ...
Jose Arias woke up Thursday to reports that President Trump was maybe, just maybe, striking a deal with Democratic leaders to enshrine in law a program that protected hundreds of thousands of immigrants ...
WASHINGTON — With California Sen. Kamala Harris and a handful of other liberal senators often viewed as the Democratic Party’s next generation of leaders lined up in support, Sen. Bernie Sanders ...
Ben Shapiro, a conservative speaker headed to UC Berkeley on Thursday evening, hasn’t mocked feminists, as right-wing performer Milo Yiannopoulos has done. He hasn’t boasted of being a “meanspirited ...
Milo Yiannopoulos, the provocative right-wing showman whose visit to UC Berkeley in February prompted a riot that shut down the event, said Tuesday he’s coming back in two weeks with like-minded cohorts: ...
While controversy swirls around next week’s release of Hillary Clinton’s memoir about the 2016 presidential election, former President Bill Clinton spoke of unifying America Friday night in San ...
Two long-shot Republican candidates for governor are looking to use ballot measures to pull them to victory next year, but it’s a strategy with a long, checkered history in California elections. San ...
President Trump was quick to toss away the hottest of political issues Tuesday, telling Congress it’s now up to lawmakers to decide the fate of the nearly 800,000 young people who could face deportation ...
A group of Democratic-led states is leading a legal challenge to President Trump’s planned repeal of a program allowing nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States — and ...
Grandparents, grandchildren and other close relatives who hail from six mostly Muslim nations can enter the United States to join their family members during a legal challenge of President Trump’s ban on ...
At the Netroots Nation conference in Atlanta last month, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren opened her speech to 3,000 progressives with a spirited attack on ... former Democratic President Bill Clinton. ...
For eight months, voters who didn’t choose Donald Trump to be president have struggled with this question: Why does Trump remain popular among his conservative base? Finally, Southern California ...
The difference in style between California’s two Democratic U.S. senators was apparent Wednesday in Oakland, where Sen. Kamala Harris urged supporters at a town hall to “stand up and fight” during ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s rare kind words for President Trump have Democrats in an uproar and left her scrambling Wednesday to explain that she really didn’t mean it when she told a San Francisco ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein may be San Francisco’s favorite politician, but she quickly learned Tuesday evening that even a wildly popular ex-mayor can get into trouble if she tries to say something nice about ...
Three Democratic congresswomen took aim at President Trump on Tuesday, arguing that the country must display a new, stronger concern for women’s needs to meet the nation’s challenges. “When women ...
When GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona was asked last month about his stand on the Republicans’ controversial health care reform plan, he said that he’d do whatever Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ...
Stephen Bannon, the former right-wing editor who became one of President Trump’s top aides, was unceremoniously dropped from his post of power Friday, a victim of the growing uproar over the ...
It was more than just political fallout when several top business leaders turned against President Trump this week, a response to his saying “both sides” were responsible for the violence during a ...
FRESNO — Organizers called it the Real Resistance Conference. But the 140 Tea Party-organized activists who gathered in a hotel by the Fresno airport this weekend have been as far from the antiPresident ...
Word that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just hired Hillary Clinton’s former top political strategist, Joel Benenson, to advise him and his wife, Priscilla Chan, on their philanthropic pursuits is ...
Democrats have a growing problem when it comes to abortion, one that risks alienating some of the largest progressive organizations at a time when the party needs their grassroots energy to revive itself. ...
Tom Tarantino has a certain quality Democrats these days are craving in a candidate, particularly in the suburban Contra Costa-Alameda County district where Tarantino will file paperwork Thursday to run ...
Installing John Kelly as chief of staff won’t change the trajectory of the Trump administration unless the president grants the retired four-star general a power no one in the White House seems to have: ...
There’s a prevailing belief in Silicon Valley that technology can improve almost anything. So in that spirit, some prominent tech leaders are launching plans to disrupt the Democratic Party, which has ...
President Trump’s newly announced ban on transgender people in the armed forces — assuming his tweets become official policy — will be promptly challenged in federal courts, which traditionally have ...
President Trump returned the military to the culture wars of recent decades Wednesday with a tweeted declaration that transgender people can no longer serve “in any capacity” in the armed forces. ...
WASHINGTON — Amid all the confusion, division and near-death experiences of the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, party leaders emerged this week with a narrow but visible path to ...
WASHINGTON — Adopting a bolder populist message to take to voters in next year’s midterm elections, Democrats on Monday rolled out what they called a “Better Deal” economic agenda that attempts to ...
While Democrats are celebrating the Republican pratfall on health care as a short-term victory, they have a long-term problem that could cripple their chances of regaining power: a public perception that ...
WASHINGTON — Fresh off a visit to the nation’s largest women’s prison at Chowchilla, in the prison-dotted San Joaquin Valley, Sen. Kamala Harris on Thursday tacked another piece onto what is becoming ...
WASHINGTON — With a friend in the White House and their party in control of both chambers of Congress, House Republicans have embarked on their most ambitious effort yet to change the way water flows in ...
If you’re a progressive, getting an email fundraising pitch from MoveOn.org is like seeing the fog roll in through the Golden Gate. It seemingly happens every day at the same time. But check out the ...
Democratic strategists say the Republican failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will have repercussions in California’s 2018 election, and the potential victims are nine House Republicans ...
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress may be faced with working with Democrats to improve the Affordable Care Act after a last-ditch plan — to repeal the law with no replacement — ended in failure ...
WASHINGTON — Orange County Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher called the emails and subsequent meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and an attorney with ties to the Russian government “still a ...
It’s illegal for a U.S. political campaign to ask a foreign person or government for “anything of value” — and that’s what Donald Trump Jr. appears to have done in agreeing to meet with a Russian ...
Republicans may hold the legislative power in Washington, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco sees a glimmer of hope for reversing that: a vulnerability in the GOP that reminds her of ...
The Trump administration may be quietly conceding defeat to California on car tailpipe emissions, the biggest battleground in the state’s showdown with President Trump over climate change. Environmental ...
When Kris Kobach of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent out a letter last week asking all 50 states to provide the federal government with detailed information on every voter ...
If you’re a Democratic officeholder, it’s not a compliment when President Trump tweets that he hopes you’re not forced out of your job because “that would be very bad for the Republican Party.” ...
California Sen. Kamala Harris barnstormed the state Monday, looking for stories about how the Republican health care proposal might affect seniors “to take back with me” to Washington. She got a ...
President Trump’s administration is not allowing grandparents, grandchildren, uncles or aunts of U.S. residents from nations affected by Trump’s travel ban to enter the country because they are not ...
WASHINGTON — Nearly everything people most dislike about the current health care law would be made worse by the Senate Republicans’ effort to repeal it. And just about everything people like about the ...
For anyone still wondering whether President Trump would tone down his personal attacks in response to perceived slights as he settled in the White House, his tweets Thursday mocking a female cable news ...
For San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, there’s nothing new about being targeted by Republicans. After 30 years in Congress and 15 years as leader of the House Democrats, it comes with the territory. But ...
The Supreme Court’s newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, made his mark Monday in cases on President Trump’s travel ban, California’s gun law, lesbian parents and a religious school’s use of taxpayer ...
WASHINGTON — The Senate Republican plan for replacing the Affordable Care Act faces a tricky path to approval when it comes up for a vote, with several GOP senators voicing reservations Thursday that ...
After a devastating loss in an extensively — and expensively — targeted Georgia congressional race, Democrats on Wednesday erupted in an explosion of finger pointing and second-guessing, blaming the ...
Former Rep. Ellen Tauscher of Pleasanton is easing back into California politics as one of the founders of a new super PAC aimed at flipping seven GOP congressional seats into the Democratic column next ...
WASHINGTON — Marking her 30th anniversary in Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sees a peculiar alignment of history and politics taking shape. In the 2006 midterm election, that alignment made ...
While Tuesday’s breathtakingly expensive congressional runoff election in the suburbs of Atlanta pits Democrat Jon Ossoff against Republican Karen Handel, the real battle could be for the future of the ...
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions forcefully told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that any allegation that he participated in collusion with the Russian government to help the ...
The second federal appeals court to consider President Trump’s travel ban against selected mostly Muslim nations reached the same result as the first — that the ban cannot take effect — but for ...
The Senate testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey may not have provided a blockbuster moment into the investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, but it did produce a rarity: ...
Even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide the constitutionality of the revised travel ban proposed by President Trump, he went out of his way Monday to criticize the courts, and he seemed to ...
California’s long-struggling rural communities are looking for less talk and more action from a state Legislature dominated by big-city Democrats with few connections to the very different problems of ...
WASHINGTON — The legislation House Republicans passed this month to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cover a million more people than their initial version, but that would still increase ...
WASHINGTON — A Trump administration budget proposal released Tuesday that even some Republicans dismissed as too draconian would slash hundreds of billions of dollars from programs that provide health ...
SACRAMENTO — There are two questions that California Democrats whisper incessantly, yet no one can answer definitively. The first: Is Sen. Dianne Feinstein running for re-election next year? And only ...
Progressive activists looking to push the California Democratic Party further to the left at the party’s annual convention this weekend may be making it harder to challenge Republicans in more ...
SACRAMENTO — Californians won’t pick their governor until November 2018, but one story line is emerging among the Democrats battling to replace termed-out Gov. Jerry Brown: Because they largely agree ...
SACRAMENTO — Eric Bauman was elected chair of the California Democratic Party on Saturday, winning a tight 1,493-to-1,431 victory over Kimberly Ellis of Richmond, capping a heated battle to replace ...
As Congress and the public ponder the latest revelations about President Trump — that he allegedly asked FBI Director James Comey to drop an investigation of ousted national security adviser Michael ...
The appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election not only intensifies the legal stakes facing President ...
A federal appeals court reviewing President Trump’s revised ban on U.S. entry of travelers from six mostly Muslim countries on Monday gave few hints of how it planned to rule. But the panel asked some ...
For any of the three top Republicans running to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, finishing second would be an upset victory. Attorney Tom Del Beccaro of Lafayette, attorney Duf Sundheim of ...
The firing of FBI Director James Comey didn’t just shock everybody from Comey himself to most of the White House staff — it has scrambled the traditional political calculus in Washington and could ...
Whitewater. Iran-Contra. Scooter Libby. Those were among the names in the headlines when special prosecutors, also known as independent counsel, were being appointed to investigate allegations of ...
President Trump’s decision Tuesday to abruptly fire FBI Director James Comey comes off as another example of the political clumsiness that continues to plague the young administration. The late ...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans rebuffed Democratic demands for an independent investigation of Russian meddling in the November election Wednesday, while expressing concern about President Trump’s ...
Soon after the House passed legislation to dump former President Barack Obama’s signature insurance plan last week, a Democratic challenger in Orange County sent an email blast calling it “Donald Trump ...
President Trump says he’s learning that deal-making in the political world is different than it is in the business world, but his actions over the past couple of days show he’s far from mastering the ...
California is once again looking to move its June presidential primary to an earlier — and, it is hoped, more influential — date in the 2020 election season. The reasoning is simple. In most years, ...
Putting the political dessert before the vegetables, the Trump administration Wednesday announced a plan for massive business and personal tax cuts, but provided only vague indications of how to pay for ...
Three weeks before winning the White House, Donald Trump gave a speech in Pennsylvania promising a “game-changing” first 100 days in office , predicting the “contract with the American voter” he ...
With President Trump about to get graded Saturday on his first 100 days in office, it’s also a good time to evaluate the anti-Trump resistance movement. As a cage match, it’s not even close: The ...
President Trump’s Twitter barrage directed at a federal judge who blocked his attempt to cut off funding to immigrant-protective sanctuary cities drew a sharp response Wednesday from officials in San ...
President Trump can’t coerce sanctuary cities like San Francisco to cooperate with immigration officers by threatening to withdraw crucial funding, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that bars ...
WASHINGTON — Nearly 100 days into a presidency remarkably thin on legislative success, one area where the Trump administration and Republican-led Congress have notched indisputable gains is on the ...
President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that aims to rein in H-1B visas — the first action taken as part of his promised overhaul of a work-visa program heavily used by Silicon Valley. Before ...
Many of the 1,000 people who attended Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s town hall Monday in San Francisco didn’t necessarily disagree with her; they just wanted her to be louder and more aggressive in opposing ...
Democratic plans to target half of California’s 14 Republican members of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections represent a high-stakes bet that President Trump’s continuing unpopularity in the state ...
As the young Trump administration searches for political accomplishments, it can take credit for one thing in its first 100 days: It has killed consistency. And by being consistent, we mean: taking ...
As Americans face Tuesday’s deadline to pay their taxes, the Trump administration is hinting that tax reform is up soon on its agenda, with the president predicting it will be an easier political lift ...
President Trump ordered a missile strike on a Syrian airfield without seeking congressional approval, and his aides say he might do it again if Bashar Assad’s government launches another chemical weapons ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders is defying predictions that he would recede into the progressive fringes after his high-profile presidential run. With President Trump in the White House and Republicans in total ...
Thursday’s decision by Rep. Devin Nunes to recuse himself from the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian influence in the November election may be less about the Tulare Republican and ...
WASHINGTON — Judge Neil Gorsuch’s place on the U.S. Supreme Court was assured Thursday, but it came at the cost of the Senate filibuster, a long-standing tactic that allowed the minority party to have ...
It’s probably going to take a lot of winks, nods and backroom side deals for Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic legislative leadership to pass their $52 billion transportation tax and fee package by ...
SACRAMENTO — The Democratic plan to fix California’s roads faces major opposition from environmental and health advocates who are furious about a provision in the legislation that they say would give ...
SACRAMENTO — California took another step Monday toward a showdown with the Trump administration over sanctuary policies when the state Senate approved a bill that would prohibit local police officers ...
More than 200 farmworkers and their supporters marched in Santa Rosa on Sunday morning to protest President Trump’s immigration policies, which they say threaten both workers and the country’s thriving ...
BAKERSFIELD —The November election is far from over in the Central Valley. All along Highway 99, which cuts through California’s agricultural heartland, are Donald Trump’s weathered “Make America ...
Buoyed by Congress’ failed attempt last week to replace the Affordable Care Act, California officials, health advocates and insurance executives are pressing forward on a new phase of resistance ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump promised coal miners he would save their jobs Tuesday as he ordered a sweeping rollback of U.S. efforts to address climate change. “I made my promise, and I keep my ...
To regain political power, Democrats need to better direct their message at people of color who aren’t voting instead of conservative whites who have stopped listening to them. That’s the conclusion ...
Amelia Gutierrez’s parents have one rule at the dinner table of their Discovery Bay home: Don’t talk politics. Too many wisecracks about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s ...
Even before the Republican health care bill died Friday, President Trump badly needed a legislative win after two months of self-inflicted wounds, stumbles and legal setbacks. And while the factors that ...
California Rep. Adam Schiff has been all over the news this week as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating links between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential ...
President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly abandoned their attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act on Friday, giving up on a bedrock campaign promise, calling into question their ...
Attention Democrats: Getting tired of email and text blasts urging you to call Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi three times a week? A growing corner of the anti-President Trump ...
WASHINGTON — California Republican Devin Nunes may have handed House Democrats on Wednesday their strongest argument yet for an independent investigation of Russian interference in November’s election. ...
WASHINGTON — The two Californians who lead their parties on the House Intelligence Committee framed starkly different interpretations of FBI Director James Comey’s blockbuster announcement Monday that ...
Even though it is only a few months old, the fledgling resistance to President Trump is realizing it needs to address three big questions: How do we keep people from burning out? With so many new groups ...
Researchers and university leaders in the Bay Area, one of the nation’s premier hubs of scientific and medical research, are reeling in the wake of President Trump’s proposal to cut federal funding to ...
If they want to cut back on David Drees’ broccoli, it’s not going to happen without a fight. “I need this,” said Drees, gazing as fondly as a man can gaze at a plastic tray of vegetables. “I ...
With President Trump’s revised travel ban once again on judicial hold, its fate in higher courts — including the Supreme Court — most likely turns on one question: Must judges accept the ...
WASHINGTON — A budget proposal by President Trump that would slash domestic programs, singling out the environment for its harshest cuts while boosting military spending and setting aside money for a ...
President Trump’s first budget outline addresses some of his campaign promises — more support for the military and construction of a wall on the Mexican border — but reneges on commitments he made to ...
President Trump’s latest attempt to halt travel to the U.S. from selected nations with almost entirely Muslim populations was blocked Wednesday by a federal judge — less than six hours before it was to ...
Three days before President Trump’s new travel ban is due to take effect, California joined a legal challenge by Washington and four other states Monday arguing that the proposed halt on admission of ...
WASHINGTON — The Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would slash the number of people covered by health insurance by 24 million by 2026 while reducing the federal deficit by $337 billion, ...
President Trump paid $38 million in federal taxes on income of $150 million in 2005 and reported a $103 million write-down, according to a copy of his federal tax return that was revealed Tuesday. ...
Four years ago, when President Barack Obama asked Ann Ravel to serve on the Federal Election Commission, she was seen as one of the last great hopes to save the agency that is supposed to root out the ...
The Central Intelligence Agency may be using everyday devices — from the phone in your pocket to the television set in your bedroom — to spy on people at home and abroad using sophisticated hacking ...
WASHINGTON — A day after it was unveiled, a Republican House plan to replace the Affordable Care Act seemed in jeopardy Tuesday as opposition mounted from influential conservative groups and key GOP ...
President Trump’s new version of a 90-day ban on U.S. entry from selected Muslim-majority countries has been stripped of some of its most legally vulnerable provisions, such as its application to legal ...
President Trump’s revised executive order temporarily banning people from six Muslim-majority countries tries to sidestep some of the flaws of its predecessor that the courts rejected and thousands ...
President Trump’s first speech to Congress was coated in a sheen of bipartisan language but offered few specifics on how he would translate the daring promises of his raucous campaign rallies into ...
SACRAMENTO — There was a duality at the first California Republican Party convention of the Trump era. For the 1,200 convention-goers, nothing felt sweeter than having a GOP president and control of ...
For the past few months, Amara Tabor-Smith has added a few more warm-up exercises to her Saturday morning Rhythm & Motion classes in the Mission, where 80 dancers regularly gather in yoga pants and ...
While a growing number of Republicans in Congress are calling for investigations into the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia last year, the president himself Thursday dismissed the story as ...
With the Oscars coming up at the end of the month, here’s something any celebrity planning to make a provocative political statement, while wearing a $100,000 designer necklace, should keep in mind: ...
What started out last year as a straightforward boycott of Donald Trump and his family’s businesses became a lot more complicated when the New York City developer was elected president of the United ...
President Trump’s controversial travel and immigration ban is giving the tech industry something many of its members have long craved: a political stand on a cause that is not motivated primarily by ...
It’s the court conservatives love to hate. And the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ impending decision on whether to reinstate President Trump’s ban on entry to the United States by anyone from ...
WASHINGTON — When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ordered Sen. Elizabeth Warren to “take a seat” and stop talking late Tuesday night, he did more than cause Warren’s argument to be broadcast ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking in San Francisco Wednesday, blasted Republican leaders for silencing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor when she tried to use the words of Martin ...
The first federal appeals court to consider President Trump’s ban on travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries held a contentious hearing Tuesday and appeared, in the end, to ...
A divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that immigrants who are caught soon after entering the country illegally have no right to a lawyer in expedited removal proceedings, which are used to deport ...
So far, President Trump has acted much like he did in business, starting his initiatives with forceful opening shots. That’s a classic negotiating tactic, and his latest use of it appears to have come in ...
VISALIA, Tulare County — President Trump’s first actions in the White House, from ordering up a border wall and banning refugees to fixating on crowd sizes and attacking “Saturday Night Live” on ...
When President Trump kicked off his campaign almost two years ago by declaring that Mexico was sending unwanted criminals and rapists across the border, Valeska Castaneda brushed it off, laughing at the ...
Raya Bidshahri, a 21-year-old Iranian citizen, had her Silicon Valley future all plotted out. With her graduation from Boston University nearing, the wheels were turning for Bidshahri’s education ...
Resistance to the Trump administration is blooming, fueled by anger at what’s coming out of the White House. Accompanying it is a frustration among Democrats that their elected officials aren’t doing ...
President Trump has promised annual economic growth of 4 percent. I’d settle for anything above zero. Doubling the growth rate for the country’s gross domestic product, our annual output of goods and ...
Neil Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge known for conservative views on religious freedom and the role of the courts, was nominated Tuesday by President Trump to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice ...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was in full resistance mode during a televised town hall on CNN Tuesday evening, calling President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee “a hostile appointment” and his ...
Many of the dominant images from President Trump’s first 10 days in office make it look as if the country is turning on him. The millions who protested him at women’s marches across the country. The ...
To women like Jessica Morse who are running for office for the first time, the good news isn’t just that Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate this week; it’s that Republican Roy Moore lost. This isn’t just about party loyalties. After seeing Hillary ...
San Franciscans are clamoring for leadership to address the wretched conditions of our streets — the sprawling tent encampments, the discarded dirty needles, the rampant mental illness and the filth. Though it didn’t always seem obvious, Mayor Ed Lee was intent on addressing these issues ...
Even before the sun rose Tuesday, the city’s political establishment began coalescing around London Breed as acting mayor — but just how long the Board of Supervisors president will hold the office in the wake of Mayor Ed Lee ’s untimely passing is a bigger question, and one that ...
Here’s a question: If Roy Moore weren’t running for Senate, would Al Franken still have a political career? Franken’s forced announcement that he’ll leave the Senate was a case of his fellow Democrats making a political point to the #MeToo movement: We’re more moral than Republicans. ...
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