Red ink colors state budgets
The California Legislature meets in special session Monday to tackle what many members view as an impossible task: finding a way to cut the state budget to close a deficit...
All Stories
A collection of campaign oddities, observations, grotesqueries and even the occasional wry observation from around the nation.
Governing is easy "What is so complex about providing health care for 44 million who are uninsured?" -- Democrat Mike Miller for U.S. House in Delaware, responding to an editorial...
Bush rebuffs Mubarak
President Bush said Saturday that he is not ready to accept Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's proposal to set a political deadline for establishing a Palestinian state, but he urged Israel...
Administration drafts Hollywood in war effort
Grappling with ways to help the Bush administration with its war on terrorism, more than 40 entertainment industry executives from Hollywood met Sunday with a top administration official. The executives...
Film industry struggles to find its role in time of war
The people who tell the stories don't know what to say, at least not yet. Screenwriters, directors and producers say they feel it is far too early to understand how...
Judge sets trial date for ex-SLA fugitive
A Superior Court judge on Monday refused to delay further the trial of Sara Jane Olson, accused of helping plant bombs under police cars more than a quarter-century ago. Olson's...
Terror networks rely on `hawala’
Among the various ways the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon may have obtained funds to support themselves and their operations in the United States is...
Feeling of invincibility suddenly shattered
On Tuesday, America the invincible became America the vulnerable. Skyscrapers fell in New York. Smoke billowed from the Pentagon. The Secret Service evacuated the White House. And an America that,...
PROTESTS CALM DOWN, BUT COPS TAKE HEAT
At least 55 demonstrators were arrested Tuesday amid sharp debate about the way police responded to earlier violent confrontations outside the Democratic National Convention. Most of Tuesday's protests were peaceful,...
L.A. MAY KEEP PROTESTS FAR FROM CONVENTION SITE
Bowing to the wishes and warnings of the police and fire departments, a committee of the Los Angeles City Council late Wednesday voted to rescind an earlier council order allowing...