Los Angeles Times: Politics

National Cancer Institute Director Norman “Ned” Sharpless will become acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, succeeding Scott Gottlieb, who is leaving next month, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told Congress on Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Former Vice President Joe Biden gave his strongest signal yet that he will soon get into the 2020 presidential race, speaking to a friendly union audience that greeted him with chants of “Run, Joe, run!” “I appreciate the energy you showed when I got up here,” Biden said, addressing a conference...

Democratic presidential contender Jay Inslee on Monday toured the scorched remnants of homes destroyed in November’s Woolsey fire, portraying the devastation as emblematic of the risks posed by climate change.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Democrats selected Milwaukee to host their 2020 national convention Monday, setting up the party's 2020 standard-bearer to accept the presidential nomination in the heart of the old industrial belt that delivered Donald Trump to the White House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller was making a "mistake" by not demanding that President Trump testify as part of his investigation, which by many accounts may soon be nearing its end.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Wading into a crowd of U.S. senators running for president, governors have begun entering the field with a fresh line of argument: As executives, they are doers, not talkers. “People in Washington, they spend their lives talking about stuff, debating, pointing fingers and blaming the other side,”...

By many standards, four years in prison is a tough sentence for a 69-year-old man with no prior criminal convictions. Not, however, by the standard typically used for criminal defendants in much of the United States, where courts routinely hands out sentences harsher than those imposed in many...

Trump administration officials say an increase in Central American families and minors seeking asylum has brought the immigration system to the “breaking point.” The 66,450 migrants arrested crossing the southwestern border in February — a rate of more than 2,300 per day — was more than almost...

House leaders are pushing to vote Thursday on a measure opposing bigotry after some Democrats opposed an earlier resolution to condemn anti-Semitism amid a controversy over remarks by first-year Democrat Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It was just a couple of days after he’d left the nuclear summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un after it collapsed in Hanoi, and where was America’s top diplomat?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share