Politics

Why did Trump win? Because Democrats stayed home

As thousands protest his election, Trump tweets that they 'have passion for our great country'

For the fourth time in American history, the president-elect lost the popular vote. Credit the electoral college

Call to 'lock her up' puts Trump in a bind over his threat to prosecute Hillary Clinton

A more presidential Trump tries to woo Washington in visits to the White House and the Capitol

A primer on executive power: Trump can't end same-sex marriages, but he could speed up deportations

Yes, Trump can boost deportations and gut the Dreamer program for young immigrants

For reeling Democrats, now what?

See how every neighborhood voted in the 2016 election

Clinton and Trump supporters come from different Americas. Between them lies bitterness and distrust

America didn't get its first female president, but women made history in these places on election day

Donald Trump wants to replace Obamacare. But it's not that simple.

Donald Trump trashed the political playbook. Then he made his own rules

Trump's victory ensures a conservative majority on the Supreme Court

California Rep. Devin Nunes named to Trump's transition team

In California, death penalty abolitionists pledge to keep fighting

Newly elected Kamala Harris vows to defy Trump on immigration

Antonio Villaraigosa, former L.A. mayor, jumps into the California governor's race

Gov. Jerry Brown warns Trump that California won't back down on climate change

Inside the Oval Office after Trump won: There were tears.

Hillary Clinton's concession speech and President Obama's remarks on a transition to a Trump presidency

'I will be president for all Americans' — transcript of Donald Trump's election night victory speech

'He's not our president': Youthful protesters confront what happens when democracy doesn't go your way

At 16, Sophie Wang is too young to vote and was never much interested in politics anyway. The electoral college was something she was studying in high school, but didn’t fully understand. The election of Donald Trump changed all that, giving Wang and her classmates a real-life civics lesson. “We...

Trump replaces Christie with Pence as head of transition team amid bumpy first steps

President-elect Donald Trump named Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the vice president-elect, to head their transition team, abruptly replacing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday amid increasing signs that the effort to prepare the next White House is off to a rocky start. Trump also took the unusual...

Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'The Other Side of the Door' on Cinemax

SERIES The Hero Effect This new 10-part docu-series spotlights ordinary people who are making an extraordinary difference for the better in their communities. The series opener focuses on Mission United, which supports military veterans and their families. Donald Driver and Emily Wilson co-host....

Outrage and fear fuel continuing anti-Trump protests

Spurred by fear and outrage, protesters around the country rallied and marched Friday as they have done daily since Donald Trump's presidential election victory. The spirited demonstrations on college campuses and along downtown streets were mostly peaceful following previous outbreaks of window-smashing...

Trump replaces Christie with Pence as head of transition team amid bumpy first steps to the White House

President-elect Donald Trump named Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the vice president-elect, to head their transition team, abruptly replacing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday amid increasing signs that the effort to prepare the next White House is off to a rocky start. Trump also took the unusual...

The fight to define Trump's presidency will be waged between two competing factions

Fresh from a successful battle against a Democratic opponent, Donald Trump’s attention must now turn to defining his presidency. His campaign offered two divergent approaches. He was a disruptive bomb-thrower when it came to general demeanor and his immigration and national security stances. He...

Trump embraces the cool parts of Obamacare — but not the part that makes it work

When it comes to healthcare, President-elect Donald Trump made it clear Friday that he’s all in favor of dessert but doesn’t want any Brussels sprouts. He said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he’s not against all aspects of Obamacare. He’s in favor of the ban on insurers denying...

Dow sets new record high as investors look forward to Republican-led government

It was perhaps the most surprising trade in a record-setting week on Wall Street: how quickly investors swapped presidential pre-election jitters for enthusiasm at Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton. That enthusiasm — call it the Trump rally — ultimately propelled the Dow Jones industrial...

What will a President Trump mean for SoCal housing and L.A.'s building boom?

With home prices and rents rising in Southern California, developers are busy building houses, condos and apartments – particularly in downtown Los Angeles, where a residential building boom is underway. So what does an unexpected Trump presidency mean for the housing market, which has continued...

Is a Muslim from the Midwest set to take over the Democratic National Committee?

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team Nov. 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. Donald Trump continues his transition to the White House as protests and riots break out nationwide over his election.Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition teamHarry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the...

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team Nov. 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. Donald Trump continues his transition to the White House as protests and riots break out nationwide over his election.Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition teamHarry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the...

GrubHub faces backlash after CEO's anti-Trump email to employees

GrubHub Inc. Chief Executive Matt Maloney is facing a firestorm after speaking out against President-elect Donald Trump in an email to employees Wednesday, saying if employees don’t agree with creating a culture of support and inclusiveness, they should resign. In the original email sent to the online...

Trump says he may keep parts of Obamacare after campaigning on a promise to repeal and replace it

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team Nov. 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. Donald Trump continues his transition to the White House as protests and riots break out nationwide over his election.Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition teamHarry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the...

Citing service on Veterans Day, Obama urges nation to 'forge unity' after bitter election

Three days after Election Day, President Obama used his last Veterans Day speech to urge Americans to learn from the example of veterans as a divided nation seeks to "forge unity" after the bitter 2016 campaign. Obama, in remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, noted that Veterans Day often comes...

Listen up, Californians. You’re not really moving to Canada. This is our country too.

Californians, unpack. You’re not really moving to Canada. You don’t want to go and besides, you are needed here. Friends and neighbors, hand back the #Calexit petitions. Your state will not be seceding, and you don’t want it to. The nation belongs to you at least as much as it belongs to any of...

Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon

Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon Nov. 11, 2016, 11:48 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:More than 4 million...

San Jose's Madison Nguyen concedes to Councilman Ash Kalra in tight Assembly race

Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon Nov. 11, 2016, 11:48 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:More than 4 million...

Why did Trump win? Because Democrats stayed home

When all the ballots are counted — some 4.3 million remained in California as of Thursday night, according to the state’s secretary of state — Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by well over a million votes, en route to losing the electoral college and the White House. The result put...

Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition team

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team Nov. 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. Donald Trump continues his transition to the White House as protests and riots break out nationwide over his election.Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition teamHarry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the...

Harry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America'

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team Nov. 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. Donald Trump continues his transition to the White House as protests and riots break out nationwide over his election.Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition teamHarry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the...

Challengers in two close congressional races head to freshman orientation

Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon Nov. 11, 2016, 11:48 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:More than 4 million...

Lessons from the unexpected

When all the ballots are counted — some 4.3 million remained in California as of Thursday night, according to the state’s secretary of state — Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by well over a million votes, en route to losing the electoral college and the White House. The result put...

Megyn Kelly refutes claims that her book states Donald Trump received debate questions early

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s upcoming memoir hasn’t even hit bookshelves yet, but already it’s igniting controversy. In a review of Kelly’s book, “Settle for More,” published Thursday in the New York Times, writer Jennifer Senior described Kelly’s recollection of the lead-up to the first Republican...

President Obama and Donald Trump met for the first time

After meeting with President Obama at the White House yesterday, Trump fired off a couple of tweets, including one complaining about "professional protestors"

California's Rep. Duncan Hunter among names floated for Trump Cabinet

Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon Nov. 11, 2016, 11:48 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:More than 4 million...

California hasn't shattered its glass ceiling, either

It was disheartening that the nation rejected a qualified, experienced woman on Tuesday and handed the keys to the White House to an unprepared reality TV show star instead. But there is some solace in knowing that Californians, at least, were ready for a woman in charge. Hillary Clinton didn't...

The Founders anticipated Trump. We can handle this.

A few weeks ago I told my daughter’s second grade class that our Constitution anticipates bad guys.  As I spoke, I projected pictures of some familiar evildoers—Aladdin’s Jafar, the Wicked Witch and Cinderella’s stepmother. But these kids aren’t dumb.  One grew impatient, demanding to know, “Where’s...

Michael Moore says he wants to head an Occupy-like movement against Donald Trump

Michael Moore had spent the last days before the election warning, both in person and with his new film, that Hillary Clinton was in danger of losing to Donald Trump. So you could forgive the filmmaker for sounding an I-told-you-so note--if ruefully --when asked 48 hours after the Trump upset about...

Trump attacked women, Muslims, Latinos and countless other groups. Of course people are protesting

To the editor: Night One after the election, we went to sleep with helicopters buzzing overhead and sirens wailing. These are the sounds resulting from a piece of America that feels traumatized — or perhaps I should say “Trumpmatized.” (“Anti-Trump protesters swarm downtown L.A. for third night;...

Surprise! The Times' poll was right about Trump. Now it's time for action

To the editor: Perhaps because I read The Times every day, I was not as shocked as everyone else was about Donald Trump’s victory. Being a scientist, I recognized that the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak poll would be statistically the most advanced. (“The USC/L.A. Times poll saw what other...

After Trump's win, even some in Silicon Valley wonder: Has Facebook grown too influential?

Hillary Clinton was the choice of nearly every American newspaper editorial board. It didn’t matter.   When it comes to influencing public opinion, the 2016 presidential election demonstrated with sobering effect the weakening role of traditional media and the ascendant power of social networks...

'Lock her up!' Trump now in bind over his threat to prosecute Hillary Clinton

“Lock her up!” was his supporters’ fervent cry.   But it’s Donald Trump who may find himself in political shackles, stuck between his followers’ yearning to put Hillary Clinton in jail and his expressed desire to unite a badly fractured country after an election in which he lost the popular vote....

The conversations parents and teachers are having about Trump being elected

“It’s another day in America.” That’s how Vandana Bahl started the conversation with her 19-year-old daughter. And she emphasized this: “We will be OK.” Since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election, Big Emotions have pervaded social media – elation and hope on one end...

5 ways President Trump could affect your student loans

President-elect Donald Trump has plans to address college affordability and student debt, though many details remain to be worked out. In an Oct. 13 speech in Columbus, Ohio, he outlined the basics of his views on student debt, tuition rates, administrative “bloat,” income-based repayment and loan...

If the Obamacare law is repealed, could California keep it anyway?

Millions of Californians have gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.  Now the future of that federal law – and medical coverage for those people  -- is in doubt. President-elect Donald Trump said repeatedly during his campaign that one of his first acts would be to “repeal and replace”...

Voters keep California's law banning plastic bags on the books

Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon Nov. 11, 2016, 11:48 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:More than 4 million...

90 seconds: 4 stories you can't miss

President Obama and Donald Trump have their first meeting, what Donald Trump can and can't do with his presidential powers, George Takei donate 70 years of memorabilia to the Japanese American National Museum, and what scientists learned by tickling rats. 

Nearly 200 arrested in third night of anti-Trump protests in downtown L.A.

Nearly 200 people were arrested early Friday after demonstrators flooded the streets of downtown Los Angeles and marched between City Hall and the Staples Center, the third night of demonstrations against the election of Donald Trump as president. An estimated 185 people were arrested and one officer...

RNC chief says anti-Trump protesters should 'take a deep breath'

Mike Pence to lead Donald Trump's transition team Nov. 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. Donald Trump continues his transition to the White House as protests and riots break out nationwide over his election.Mike Pence replaces Chris Christie as head of Trump's transition teamHarry Reid: Trump 'emboldened the...

A primer on executive power: Trump can't end same-sex marriages, but he could speed up deportations

Starting Tuesday night, as Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election started coming into focus, anguished questions flooded social media: Could Trump overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide? Could he abolish same-sex marriages? Could he increase...

Los Angeles is ready to embrace a new future

Good morning. It is Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11. She’s got a fantastic sweater and even better dance moves. This woman looked like she had a great time at the Warriors game. Here’s what else is happening in the Golden State: TOP STORIES Future of L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s vision for Los Angeles...

The way L.A. decides what gets built is outdated, morally corrupt and unfair

Multiple donors with ties to one developer contributed more than $600,000 to the election campaigns of the mayor and members of the Los Angeles City Council. Most of those same politicians later approved that developer’s controversial $72-million Harbor Gateway project in spite of recommendations...

A message to red-state Trump voters: I want MY country back

I’m sure thousands of bottles of Budweiser will be raised tonight in those white, working-class neighborhoods of the upper Midwest that put Donald Trump over the top in the electoral college. You folks should enjoy your moment and don’t trouble yourselves with the thought that plenty of celebratory...

Today: What Trump Can (and Can't) Do Quickly. Eternal Fight Over the Death Penalty.

I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss on Veterans Day, including our weekend recommendations and weekly look back into the archives. TOP STORIES Mr. Trump and the Limits of Presidential Power In front of the cameras in the...