Sen. Ron Wyden, longtime Oregon Democrat and ranking member of the Senate Finance Commitee, has never been a fan of President Donald Trump. But I’ve never seen him quite this worked up. The administration, Wyden declared in a statement on Friday, “is dripping with corruption from top to bottom” and is now plotting “among the […]

A woman was killed after she apparently crawled underneath a Metro bus in Santa Monica on Friday afternoon, according to investigators. Officers with the Santa Monica Police Department and Santa Monica Fire Department responded around 2 p.m. to Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard following reports of a collision involving a pedestrian and a Metro […]

On Friday afternoon, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued 35 pardons. He also commuted the sentences of nine prisoners, allowing them to be released years before they otherwise would be. Some of these acts of clemency were deeply controversial. Polis, a Democrat, shortened the sentences of multiple convicted murderers. He is also setting free Brandin Kreuzer, […]

Labor and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta made her first public appearance in Los Angeles on Saturday since disclosing allegations that United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted her and fathered two of her children, organizers say. Huerta, who turned 96 in April, attended the unveiling of a new mural titled “Walking into History” […]