Politics

The Biden administration has announced a range of options for new rules to address chronic water shortages and low reservoir...

Editorial: California voters rejected an anti-slavery measure to end forced prison labor. Now what?

Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s...

Abcarian: Will Congress give Trump the ability to kill organizations like Planned Parenthood and ACLU?

President-elect Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he will invoke the Insurrection Act so the American military can round up...

Fresno has a homelessness problem. So why are its leaders rejecting state-funded housing?

FRESNO — Dez Martinez greeted the homeless dwellers of Santa Clara Street on a recent October afternoon with open arms and...

Proposition 32 was just rejected. In blue California, why did the minimum-wage boost fail?

Californians, who have historically supported efforts to raise the minimum wage, were not swayed this time around.After two weeks of...

Trump nominates Dr. Oz to head Medicare and Medicaid and help take on ‘illness industrial complex’

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he plans to nominate Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon and former daytime television host,...

Opinion: Why I voted third party and I’m not sorry

I’m a progressive Californian, a Black man, and I did not vote for Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris this year...

Trump’s Cabinet picks are not normal. Will they be appointed anyway?

There’s been a bit of talk in recent days about what’s normal and what’s not when it comes to president-elect...

Just 102 votes separate candidates in nation’s closest House race, with more ballots to count

An Orange County congressional race that has become the closest in the country currently has such a slim margin of...

Opinion: What’s missing from the Latino vote debate? The voice of Latinas