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Republicans have pounced on the opportunity to paint Democrats, especially those in vulnerable seats, as extremists.

The former Senate majority leader tried multiple times to have Jon Ralston fired before finally succeeding. Reid then turned to the veteran journalist to write his biography.

President Trump this week pardoned Adriana Camberos, whose sentence he commuted during his first term but who shortly wound up back in prison for a different scheme.

A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate different state recycling requirements and labeling by creating a single, national standard that would be voluntary.

Southern California Edison sued Los Angeles County, water agencies and two companies including SoCalGas Friday, saying their mistakes contributed to the deadly and destructive toll of last year's Eaton wildfire.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday sharpened his criticism of a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires, a measure opponents say may push tech companies and other businesses out of the state and wound California's economy.

The justices will not resolve the decades-long dispute over whether Roundup's key ingredient, glyphosate, causes cancer.

SoCal Edison says it expects to pay little or none of the billions of dollars in damages of the disastrous Eaton fire, which its equipment is suspected of igniting. A growing number of wildfire survivors say that's not right.

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the fires -- then, according to an internal memo obtained by the L.A. Times, privately advocated against it.

In 1949, urging the U.S. to overthrow Guatemala's democratic government, lawmakers didn't say a word about the real motivation: bananas. In 2026, Trump can't stop talking about Venezuela's oil.