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Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald …

Prognostication is thankless work, especially when it comes to politics. But because it’s the happy holiday season, I’m going to pay a little attention to a faint and uncharacteristically optimistic …

ALAMEDA, Calif. —  Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader who sought more regulation of cryptocurrency and wanted his industry to …

I woke Tuesday morning to a phone call from my editor before 8 a.m. — earlier than usual — with the kind of assignment you can’t plan for. There had …

WASHINGTON —  The 845-page final report of the House Committee on Jan. 6, which finally arrived late Thursday night, is an epic. Like “Moby Dick” or “War and Peace,” it is …

PHOENIX —  A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers …

A coalition of real estate and antitax groups is seeking to prevent the city of Los Angeles from implementing a recently passed tax on the sales of properties over $5 …

It may have been the shortest-lived executive directive in Los Angeles City Hall history. Mayor Eric Garcetti, on his last day in office, quietly signed an executive directive — a …

On the Capitol’s most historic man cave, as on much else, Nancy Pelosi has left her mark. In her final weeks as the nation’s first female House speaker, a reflective …

WASHINGTON —  The highest-profile congressional investigation since Watergate concluded Thursday that former President Trump intentionally spread false claims about the 2020 election and provoked a mob of his supporters to attack …