Thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers launch strike
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii walked off the job early Monday in the latest work stoppage to roil the nation’s largest not-for-profit medical…
Commentary: Under Trump, the bootlickers have come out in force. Minneapolis cements it
President Trump has an army of bootlickers that seems to stretch to the sunset. Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from…
Is California’s proposed billionaire tax smart policy? History holds lessons
In the roiling debate over California’s proposed billionaire tax, supporters and critics agree that such policies haven’t always worked in the past. But the lessons they’ve drawn from that history…
Housing costs are crippling many Americans. Here’s how the two parties propose to fix that
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s promises on affordability in 2024 helped propel him to a second term in the White House. Since then, Trump says, the problem has been solved: He…
‘Ear Hustle’ podcast got host pardoned. See a live show in Los Angeles
When then Gov. Jerry Brown’s team spoke to Earlonne Woods to tell him his life sentence was being commuted after spending 21 years in prison, in the background of the…
Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct
Former President Obama and Michelle Obama called on Americans to recognize the dangers of the increasingly violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement crack-downs in the wake of the deadly shooting of…
Rob Caughlan, fierce defender of the coastline and Surfrider leader, dies
Known by friends and colleagues as a “planetary patriot,” a “happy warrior” and the “Golden State Eco-Warrior,” Rob Caughlan, a political operative, savvy public relations specialist and one of the…
Top L.A. federal prosecutor faces blistering criticism for response to Minneapolis shooting
Top Los Angeles federal prosecutor Bill Essayli faced blistering criticism from gun rights groups, including the NRA, after he posted on X Saturday about the fatal shooting of a U.S…
Peaceful protest over Minneapolis shooting begins in downtown Los Angeles; Bass assails ICE
A peaceful protest in support of a 37-year-old man shot and killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis was under way Saturday evening in downtown Los Angeles. Demonstrators gathered first at…
Dozens ‘die’ downtown to protest 290 traffic deaths in L.A.
On Saturday morning — a day after hundreds gathered in downtown Los Angeles to protest recent nationwide immigration enforcement — another protest gained momentum. Even if almost everyone in attendance…