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The president cleared the way for a successor. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, but there could still be a contest to determine who the nominee will be. Now that […]

Since 1790, the decennial census has played a crucial role in creating and reshaping the ever-changing views of racial and ethnic identity in the United States. Over the centuries, the [...]

Inflation and a rocky economy are bolstering Republicans in their races against incumbent Democrats, motivating ''an electorate that simply wants change,'' as one G.O.P. consultant says. LAS VEGAS -- The [...]

In the run-up to an August primary, a number of Republicans on the ballot in Arizona -- like those in Ohio -- have rushed to embrace Donald J. Trump and [...]

As Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a recall election, he has struggled to connect with Hispanic voters, who make up nearly a third of the electorate. LOS ANGELES -- The political [...]

The campaign to recall the state's governor shows that even a one-party stronghold like California can be rocked by the nation's political polarization. SACRAMENTO -- For all the controversies and [...]

As millions of American families face an uncertain start to the school year, the anger of women who find themselves expected to be teacher, caregiver, employee and parent is fueling [...]

At every step in her political career, the California congresswoman had to be coaxed to run for a higher office. Now she's a top contender to be Joe Biden's running [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday made California the first state to alter its plans for the general election in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on [...]

Byline: Jennifer Medina and Lisa Lerer 'The way we've been able to MacGyver a career as a woman is completely under attack by a global pandemic.' LOS ANGELES - As [...]

A day before the caucuses, the state party says volunteer and staff members at caucus sites are forbidden to talk to the news media. LAS VEGAS -- One day before [...]

J Street, a liberal pro-Israel advocacy group, hosted five of the Democratic presidential hopefuls at its meeting on Israel and the future of American foreign policy. WASHINGTON -- Pete Buttigieg [...]

LOS ANGELES -- At an auditorium here one evening this week, Atticus Tyagi, age 8, stepped onstage with a canvas bag nearly as large as he is, bearing the name [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The federal Transportation Department on Thursday fulfilled its promise to cancel a nearly $1 billion grant that would have helped pay for California's bullet train, in yet [...]

FRESNO, Calif. -- In a neighborhood littered with derelict warehouses, Miguel Arias pointed to a wide strip of dirt where California's high-speed rail, one of America's most ambitious and divisive [...]

WASHINGTON -- A day after California filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's emergency declaration on the border, the Transportation Department said it was exploring legal options to claw back $2.5 [...]

LOS ANGELES -- More than 30,000 Los Angeles public-school teachers began a strike on Monday, the first in three decades in the district. Holding plastic-covered signs on rain-drenched picket lines [...]

WASHINGTON -- With a partial government shutdown stretching past Day 5, the impasse over funding a wall at the southwestern border has highlighted the debate over effective border security, with [...]

SAN DIEGO -- They all stand neatly in a row: eight large panels on a barren dirt patch just a few hundred yards from the San Diego border with Mexico. [...]

For years, Republicans savaged Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act, branding the law -- with some rhetorical license -- as a government takeover of health care. Now, cast out [...]

LOS ANGELES -- When George Lucas spoke to Mayor Eric Garcetti about opening his Museum of Narrative Art here in Exposition Park, the filmmaker said he was captivated by the [...]

The filmmaker George Lucas plans to open his Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, ending a monthslong competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which both vied to host [...]

Brought to the United States from Venezuela as a toddler, Carlos Roa was among the first young undocumented immigrants to be protected from deportation under a program President Obama set [...]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Her husband, Steven P. Jobs, famously helped reboot Apple with the ''Think Different'' advertising campaign. Now Laurene Powell Jobs is starting a $50 million project to [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Faced with the increasing likelihood that the state will significantly cut their water allotment as a way to deal with the punishing drought, farmers in California's Sacramento [...]

Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislative leaders reached a deal Thursday to place a revised plan for a rainy-day fund on the ballot this fall; it would create a cushion [...]

Gov. Jerry Brown will ask a panel of three federal judges to extend its year-end deadline to cut the state's prison population while the state increases rehabilitation programs meant to [...]

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Just before officials at the Port of Los Angeles unanimously approved a plan for a vast new railyard last month, the mayor of Long Beach was [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLOS ANGELES -- With the mayor's office up for grabs for the first time in nearly a decade, voters here will go to the polls Tuesday in the first [...]

LOS ANGELES -- On Tuesday, voters in Los Angeles will go to the polls for a mayoral primary. But much of the attention will also be on the three races [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Grand Park, one of the largest new parcels of open space in this sprawling city, is the focus of all sorts of grand visions. Designed for a [...]

THERMAL, Calif. -- To understand the conditions at the Duroville mobile-home park here, a half-hour drive from Palm Springs, Calif., just look at the windows. Dotting the walls are stretches [...]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- For years now, administrators at the community college here have been inundated with woeful tales from students unable to register for the courses they need. Classes [...]

TUCSON -- When Gabrielle Giffords began her first run for Congress in 2005, Ron Barber retired from his job and volunteered to help her. When she took office, Mr. Barber [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The southwest border of Beverly Hills runs along Whitworth Drive. In some ways, it is impossible to distinguish where that city ends and this sprawling one begins. [...]

The State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature had the right to eliminate local redevelopment agencies, redirecting more than $1 billion to help close a [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The University of California, Berkeley, announced Wednesday that it would offer far more financial aid to middle-class students starting next fall, with families earning up to $140,000 [...]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Natives here have long called this area the Inland Empire, a grand title for a stretch of cities about 50 miles east of Los Angeles. Now, a [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The women shuffle back and forth as they wait just after 7 a.m. for the orange bus crawling down the street. It will be more than an [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LOS ANGELES -- When he took over as governor this year, Jerry Brown set his ambitions high. He wanted to break the partisan gridlock that had handicapped the [...]

MALIBU, Calif. -- Descending the steep cliffside steps to a slice of sand near Point Dume can feel like arriving on a deserted island. There are no cars as far [...]

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his acting career on pause, one of his lawyers said Thursday, amid the news that he had fathered a child with a former member [...]

LOS ANGELES -- In California public schools, students are required to learn about black history and women's history. And if a bill approved by the State Senate this week becomes [...]

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- To solve a looming pension crisis and budget gap, city officials here said, they needed to take drastic action. And everyone agrees on one thing: they [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Last year, when the school district here handed out thousands of layoff notices, Samuel Gompers Middle School in South Central stood to lose half of its roughly [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The imposing concrete building, a place now for the recorder of deeds and the seekers of zoning variances, will soon play unlikely host to a company that [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The football field at a public school here, in the second largest school district in the country, soon may be brought to students by Nike. Facing another [...]

New York State education officials acknowledged on Monday that their standardized exams had become easier to pass over the last four years and said they would recalibrate the scoring for [...]

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's [...]

New York City officials and the State Assembly reached a tentative deal late Thursday to more than double the number of charter schools, a move that officials hope will give [...]