President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening offered the nation a defense of America’s offensive against Iran, assuring the country the mission will end “very shortly.” Had he opted for inaction like all his predecessors, he said, the “most violent and thuggish regime on Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion...Read more

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment represents a low in relations between the two countries.

But the bad blood isn’t new: The U.S. and Iran have been in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration announced on Saturday the arrests of two Los Angeles-based relatives of a high-ranking member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that federal authorities detained Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Friday. Soleimani is the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — House Democrats will hold a pair of "shadow hearings" in California next week on the upcoming midterm elections — part of a broader party effort to defend state voting systems against mounting critiques and threats of intervention from the Trump administration.

Such hearings, similar to those recently held in Los Angeles on ...Read more

Satellite startup Impulse Space is working with Anduril Industries Inc. to develop space-based interceptor technology for President Donald Trump’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, according to people familiar with the matter.

The companies have been selected by the Pentagon to develop prototypes of space-based interceptors ...Read more

The downing of a U.S. aircraft and the dayslong search for a missing crew member has pierced the aura of invincibility that President Donald Trump has sought to project as he tries to stave off the increasing political risks of the Iran war he started five weeks ago alongside Israel.

Trump has repeatedly claimed dominance over Iranian airspace ...Read more

Don Lemon sees no reason he can’t someday be elected to serve as the President of the United States.

The former CNN host told “Pod Save America” host Alex Wagner he’d consider seeking public office — maybe even the nation’s highest office — in the right situation. Lemon said that’s a question he often encounters.

On the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday issued a memo ordering that the remaining Department of Homeland Security employees be paid during a record-long partial government shutdown affecting the agency.

“I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is singling out the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority as a cautionary tale about Democratic mismanagement of publicly funded programs, using it to justify proposed cuts to homeless assistance services across the country.

Trump’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, released Friday, asks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled a nearly $2.2 trillion spending request for fiscal 2027 on Friday that features an enormous defense boost, posing a major challenge to GOP leaders as they seek an election-year spending deal with Democrats.

National security spending would soar to $1.5 trillion in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1...Read more

Victims of the January 2025 wildfires unhappy with how insurers have handled their claims have filed lawsuits, protested and complained to local and state officials.

This week, they got support from an unexpected ally: President Trump.

"It was brought to my attention that the Insurance Companies, in particular, State Farm, have been absolutely...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is requesting $152 million from Congress to begin“rebuilding” the prison on Alcatraz Island for operational use, though his administration appears to have taken few steps toward advancing the project.

The request, in the president’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027, resurrects Trump’s attention...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked Congress to enact a $2.2 trillion budget for discretionary programs, seeking a massive increase in defense spending, while also renewing his push for steep cuts to domestic agencies.

The 2027 budget proposal released Friday requests $1.5 trillion for defense, a significant increase over the $1 ...Read more

Despite the wave of enthusiasm of this week’s moonshot launch of Artemis II, President Donald Trump once again wants to chop billions of dollars from the agency, including its science missions, according to documents released Friday by NASA.

Trump last year sought to reduce NASA’s budget by about $6 billion, and his proposed budget for ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California filed its 66th lawsuit against President Donald Trump since he took office 62 weeks ago, this time challenging his executive order to create lists of federal voters to curtail mail-in voting.

On Tuesday, Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of eligible voters in every state and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled on Friday a nearly $2.2 trillion discretionary spending request for the coming fiscal year, a nearly 21% increase over the current year’s level because of a dramatic proposed boost in defense funding.

The election-year spending blueprint doubles down on an administration drive to pump up the ...Read more

NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman dramatically outpaced challenger Brad Lander in the first-quarter fundraising race for their congressional Democratic primary dogfight.

Goldman, a two-term incumbent, says he raked in $2.2 million in the first three months of the year, while Lander, the progressive former controller and mayoral candidate, ...Read more