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The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...

A problem for Crombie is that she gets caught up in competition with the NDP for the votes of people dissatisfied with Ford’s PCs, and as a result ends up being reactive to Ford’s attacks on her, with ...

The Trump administration has gutted the federal government’s ability to fight public corruption in a matter of weeks.

There's no sign of the mass protests of his first term – but Democrats are building a less flashy politics of opposition, says journalist Jon Allsop ...

The interim US attorney for the Southern District and five senior Justice Department officials quit following an order to ...

The President says he’ll sign an order that increases U.S. tariffs to the rates other countries charge on imports.

Editor’s note: We turned our Essential Politics newsletter into the L.A. Times Politics newsletter and gave it a new format and host. You can find it here. California’s farmers bought Trump ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is taking a friendlier approach to President Trump as he adjusts to the new political realities of governing amid a GOP-dominated Washington. This week Newsom ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is taking a friendlier approach to President Trump as he adjusts to the new political realities of governing amid a GOP-dominated Washington. This week Newsom ...

The Trump administration told departments to begin firing probationary employees, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands ...

It's already a class B misdemeanor to remove, alter, deface or otherwise vandalize a sign, but HB292 would make it a crime to attach items to a political sign that change or obstruct the message ...