Tag: California

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calf., is calling on other lawmakers to release a transcript of their meeting with the founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired a former British intelligence officer to write the so-called "Trump dossier." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Adam Schiff urges Republicans on House Intelligence panel to release transcript with Fusion GPS founder: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · January 16, 2018 2:20 am

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., tweeted Monday that were civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. alive in 2018, he'd be calling for President Trump's impeachment.
(Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg)

Maxine Waters: If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, he’d be marching for Trump’s impeachment

Naomi Lim · January 16, 2018 2:08 am

"Let me put it to you this way. Mental instability, mendacity, bigotry," Xavier Becerra said. "Having any one of those is the White House is dangerous. Having the combination? That's lethal." (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California attorney general calls Trump’s presence in the Oval Office ‘lethal’: ‘He is a racist’

Kyle Feldscher · January 14, 2018 3:26 pm

Red-state Democrats in Congress usually are some of the most bipartisan, but in the era of Trump, things have changed. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Salena Zito: Red-state Democrats posture for donors instead of working for voters

Salena Zito · January 14, 2018 5:01 am

Only two wall prototypes built in Otay Mesa, Calif., last October would meet the president's standards, as the remaining structures are all made of solid concrete or steel with subterranean features that reach as far as eight feet below ground. (AP Photo/Elliott Spagat)

Did Trump just rule out 75 percent of his border wall prototypes?

Gabby Morrongiello · January 12, 2018 4:26 pm

Public pension managers are increasingly using the funds entrusted to them for their own political agendas, with dangerous financial consequences for entire generations of workers. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)

Financial performance, not politics, matters most to America’s pension holders

Mark J. Perry · January 12, 2018 5:01 am

Beltway Confidential

Darrell Issa could solve Republicans’ Duncan Hunter dilemma

Philip Wegmann · January 12, 2018 3:08 am

This Nov. 3, 2008 file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif.

Energy and Environment

California’s last nuclear plant to close

Josh Siegel · January 11, 2018 9:19 pm

"I hope that the states are more focused on cutting their budgets and giving tax cuts to their people in their states than they are on trying to evade the law," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Steve Mnuchin: Blue state attempts to circumvent limits on SALT deduction are ‘ridiculous’

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2018 8:30 pm

The email was sent to all graduates of the School of Information and Computer Sciences, which potentially contains hundreds or thousands of students. (via YouTube)

Red Alert Politics

Professor’s email signature says ‘Trump is a self-absorbed, self-serving, habitual liar’

Peter Van Voorhis · January 11, 2018 5:33 pm

Ryan Zinke said he would not allow offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, after meeting with Florida Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday night. (Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Energy and Environment

Coastal governors want Ryan Zinke to block drilling in their states, too

Josh Siegel · January 10, 2018 6:14 pm

Earlier Wednesday, President Trump dubbed the California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein "sneaky."

Nancy Pelosi congratulates Dianne Feinstein on earning a Trump nickname: ‘Clearly doing something right!’

Anna Giaritelli · January 10, 2018 3:58 pm