Legislation that would allow federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of thefts and related crimes is gaining support despite costs of enforcement and due process concerns.

LA governor says president-elect is spreading ‘mis- and disinformation’ by blaming fish protection policies for water shortages

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 16.

President-elect claimed politicians in California were unable to put out raging fires – elevating his longstanding feud with Newsom

California governor Gavin Newsom has hit at Donald Trump over his LA wildfire response claims, calling the president-elect “delusional”. Trump this week blamed Newsom for the wildfire crisis, claiming in a social media post that he “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water”. Responding to Trump, Newsom said: “It‘s made up. It’s delusional… And it’s reinforced over and over and over within the right wing. And so it’s become gospel. And it’s so profoundly ignorant. And yet he absolutely believes it” The California governor made his comments when he appeared on the Pod Save America podcast on Saturday (11 January).

An increasing number of Democrats are questioning whether their party’s commitment to diverse candidates, especially women, may lead to more political struggles in the Trump era.

There has been fierce criticism of the response to the deadly blazes, with governor Gavin Newsom, city mayor Karen Bass and fire chief Kristin Crowley among the targets.

Firefighters were slowly making progress in their battle to contain the inferno that has razed swathes of Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood to the ground, but still-spreading flames threatened communities in the populous San Fernando Valley on Sunday.

Hed: California Democrats get an early taste of new clashes with Trump as wildfires rage on

It’s going to get tougher and tougher for Democrats to win the Electoral College and the White House if present trends hold, new projections from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest. Democratic strongho…

Senate Republicans are urging President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees to resist taking the bait from Democrats when their high-stakes confirmation hearings kick off next week, marking a make-or-br…

Along with accomplishments and mistakes, Democrats and historians are left asking “What if?” had Biden stuck to one term all along.

Trump claims Democratic environmental policies contributed to LA fires, but is that true?

President Joe Biden Biden said he still believes he would have won the US election if he stood against Donald Trump. The outgoing president was asked if he regretted his decision not to run for reelection during a press conference on Friday (10 January). Biden said: “I think I would have beaten Trump, I could have beaten Trump. “And I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump and would have beaten Trump. It wasn’t about that. I thought it was important to unify the party.”

Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe