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LAS VEGAS —  Memories of the tumultuous 2016 Republican primary hung over the Las Vegas ballroom last weekend during the first major gathering of the party’s potential contenders for the 2024 …

More than a year after it was secretly recorded and a month after it was leaked, a backroom conversation among three Los Angeles City Council members and a prominent union …

WASHINGTON —  Today is Joe Biden’s 80th birthday. Our first octogenarian president is two years older than Ronald Reagan was when his presidency ended in 1989. Biden is still fit and …

As voting experts were cheering the losses of election conspiracy theorists in high-profile races, Paddy McGuire was preparing to hand over his office to one of them. McGuire, the auditor …

With less than a month to go before he leaves office, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pressing his effort to get the U.S. Senate to confirm his appointment as …

NEW YORK —  A day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York launched a history-making bid Friday to become House Democratic leader — …

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath declared victory Thursday evening for the only vacant Los Angeles County supervisor seat after taking a nearly 20,000-vote lead over state Sen. Bob Hertzberg …

PHOENIX —  Refusing to concede, Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, said Thursday she is assembling lawyers and collecting evidence of voters having trouble casting ballots on election …

Celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Chris Pratt, Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow and Katy Perry stepped up to endorse real estate developer Rick Caruso in his bid to be mayor of L.A. …

PHOENIX —  Arizona voters, the overwhelming majority of whom cast their ballots by mail, have rejected a measure that would have required them to add more information than the simple signature …