Charles Franklin is hardly a household name, but for a few minutes Wednesday, the full spotlight of the 2016 presidential campaign focused on the veteran pollster and political scientist as he unveiled the latest results from his closely followed poll of Wisconsin voters. When he announced the...
Donald Trump has whipped up a political movement like none other in modern politics, but there’s a surprising ambivalence from his army of supporters — and even the candidate himself — over what to do next. Beyond the bombast of picking up arms to storm the White House should Hillary Clinton become...
The shell of Gawker has settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company's bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.com and the sale of Gawker's other sites to Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Gawker founder Nick Denton in a Wednesday blog post said...
The answer is apparently not blowing in the wind. At least not in Wyoming. At least not for the state’s Republican-led Legislature, which has spent months looking for ways to close a multimillion-dollar gap in the state budget. Roiled by declining revenue from the trifecta of fossil fuels – oil,...
The attention of most voters may be riveted on the vicious contest for president between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but it is worth remembering the famous words of former Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill that all politics is local. And, in the local politics of Los Angeles, the...
Last year the public learned that Bill Cosby admitted he regularly bought Quaaludes for women he wanted to have sex with. Will a jury get to hear about it too? Lawyers in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case spent Tuesday morning arguing whether a deposition the comedian gave in a 2005 civil proceeding...
It is not as if the 2016 presidential election campaign needed a single plot twist more to make it the most bizarre series of political events since Caligula tried to appoint his horse as consul of Rome. Nevertheless, it has, indeed, gotten weirder now that Anthony Weiner’s sexting escapades have...
It was the home of Richard Nixon, the cradle of Ronald Reagan’s career and, for decades, a virtual synonym for the Republican Party of California. Now, for the first time since the Depression, Orange County stands on the verge of choosing a Democrat for president, potentially ending the longest...
At a time when Donald Trump’s casinos were bleeding money and he was badly in debt, the Republican presidential nominee used a “legally dubious” accounting maneuver to avoid reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in income, according to a New York Times report Monday. In the early 1990s, Trump...
The FBI accelerated its timeline for reviewing emails potentially linked to Hillary Clinton on Monday amid growing public pressure over the agency’s surprise announcement that it had found them in an unrelated case. Investigators had planned to conduct the review over several weeks but, after a...
The California National Guard can’t locate more than 4,000 of the 9,700 soldiers caught up in the military enlistment bonus scandal that has rocked one of the nation’s largest Guard organizations, according to its commander. In an internal memo obtained by The Times, Maj. Gen. David Baldwin said...
Thousands of Facebook users across the U.S. have been falsely “checking in” at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota after a viral message claimed that investigators were tracking protesters on Facebook. Officials, however, say it’s a hoax. But some Native American activists still...
The last weekend of October was the deadliest so far this year in Chicago, including among its victims an eighth-grade honors student and twin 17-year-old boys, according to police and data compiled by the Tribune. Seventeen people were fatally shot in the city between Friday afternoon and early...
FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information on a private email server Sunday obtained a warrant to search a computer used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner for messages they believe may be related to their inquiry, according to a law enforcement official familiar with...
FBI Director James B. Comey’s announcement Friday that his agency was investigating newly found emails that might be related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server sent shock waves through the presidential campaign in its final days. A letter from Comey announcing the new probe rekindled...
Hundreds of Native Americans staged a peaceful march up a North Dakota highway Saturday, renewing their vow to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in the wake of violent clashes this week. On Thursday, state police, county sheriff’s deputies from four other states and the North Dakota National Guard...
Ever since federal agents concluded this summer that they had no case against Hillary Clinton over mishandling classified information, FBI Director James B. Comey has been in a bind. He could either take the traditional approach of keeping mum or publicly explain his reasoning. A man unafraid of...
Arizona was supposed to be the biggest news for Hillary Clinton on Friday. Aboard a flight to Iowa, top campaign officials told reporters she would travel to the state in a fourth-quarter gambit to turn it from red to blue. It was the kind of move that could reshape the electoral map, but it wasn’t...
Just as Hillary Clinton appeared to be cruising to election day with the wind at her back, the FBI rattled the presidential race Friday by announcing it is again probing emails that might be related to her private server, rekindling a politically damaging controversy for Clinton and reinvigorating...
When Michelle Obama delivered the most influential speech of the 2016 campaign in an out-of-the-way stop in New Hampshire, she suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly commanded the spotlight with her emotional account of how Donald Trump’s private words about women’s bodies had “shaken me to my core.” ...
American Airlines Flight 383 was rolling down the runway at O'Hare International Airport Friday afternoon, bound for Miami, when the plane skidded to a halt just as it was lifting off. The pilot got on the radio. "American 383 heavy," he said, referring to the Boeing 767's weight class. "Stopping...
Jody Atkin felt as if he’d been constantly losing. Losing confidence in the government, losing faith in elections and losing his freedoms to what he saw as an overly aggressive federal government. Jesse Miller felt the same way. Together, they hoisted their version of an SOS — a flag, with the...
What happened at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year was no whodunit. Many of the men and women in the 41-day protest in rural Oregon were filmed and photographed taking over and occupying the facility. Some were even captured there. Some had guns. At trial in federal court in...
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to tackle transgender rights for the first time, taking a case that will determine whether schools nationwide may force students to use restrooms that match the gender on their birth certificates. The case, stemming from a Virginia dispute involving a transgender...
Hillary Clinton wanted to share her birthday with a special someone this week in Florida. “One of the best gifts you can give yourselves would be sending Patrick Murphy to the United States Senate!” she told a crowd of supporters here in a college gymnasium. While Clinton has taken care to mention...
In the closing stretch of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton is trying to harness women’s anger over Donald Trump’s behavior into a surge of support for her and other female candidates. It’s an effort that harks back to Democratic victories that stemmed from similar controversy a quarter-century...
As helicopters circled overhead, police in riot gear arrested activists Thursday in an effort to break up an encampment of protesters blocking the path of the planned Dakota Access oil pipeline, near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. By the end of the day, authorities said they had ousted the...
Republican Sen. Mark Steven Kirk, who is facing a tough race to retain his Illinois seat against Democratic challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth, aggressively went after her during a Thursday night debate, accusing her of lying and even questioning her family's ancestry and military service. Duckworth...