Politics

WASHINGTON — President Trump partially backed down Wednesday on his plan to hike tariffs on countries around the world, with the exception...

Commentary: Can Trump’s billionaire backers pull him back from the tariff cliff?

Many of America’s billionaires and millionaires thought they knew how they would profit from a second Trump term: There would...

Supreme Court immigration ruling: Due process in theory, deportation in practice

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Trump administration to continue deporting immigrants under an 18th century wartime law was hailed...

Commentary: Bringing the death penalty back to L.A. is politics and hubris, not justice

California currently has 592 people in our prisons who have been sentenced to death. It’s the largest population of prisoners...

Trump administration to speed up construction of California-Mexico border wall

WASHINGTON — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday bypassed environmental regulations to speed up the construction of about...

Harsh trade retaliation from Canada, China show challenge ahead for Trump team

WASHINGTON — Canada will begin imposing 25% tariffs on select U.S. car imports Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions between Washington and Ottawa as...

Supreme Court OKs Trump’s mass firing of new federal workers, blocking S.F. judge’s rehire order

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected challenges to the Trump administration‘s mass firing of new federal workers.By a 7-2 vote,...

Schiff’s first Senate bill proposes tax credit for hardening homes against fire, disasters

For his first bill in the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has joined a Republican colleague to propose a federal...

Capitulate or resist? Trump threats spur different responses, and alarm for democracy

Alarmed by President Trump’s unprecedented effort to punish law firms he doesn’t like, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky...

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