ArticleHilton, Becerra take siz­able lead

Repub­lican Steve Hilton and Demo­crat Xavier Becerra led a crowded gov­ernor’s race on elec­tion night with about half of the expec­ted vote coun­ted. With 4.9 mil­lion votes coun­ted, Hilton, a former Fox News host, had 27.8%. Becerra, who served as...

ArticleFormer Para­lympian gets Dems’ nod in Iowa

WASHINGTON — The con­tours of a premier Sen­ate race took shape in Iowa, while Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s endorse­ment streak ran into a road­b­lock there. But much of the elect­oral focus was on Cali­for­nia, home to Hol­ly­wood but not a gov­ernor’s...

ArticleAlabama can keep dis­puted vote map

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has ruled that Alabama may use a con­gres­sional map that had been determ­ined to have inten­tion­ally dis­crim­in­ated against Black voters – the con­ser­vat­ive court’s latest redis­trict­ing decision that bene­fits...

ArticleTrump’s pick loses in Iowa

Rare defeat of a gubernat­orial hope­ful with pres­id­en­tial back­ing exposes GOP voter divi­sions. WASHINGTON — As Cali­for­ni­ans cast their bal­lots in the state’s closely watched gubernat­orial primary Tues­day, a very dif­fer­ent race was...

ArticlePrez alive & kick­ing butt

THE day I went to the White House to inter­view Pres­id­ent Trump, Demo­crats launched another fake rumor cam­paign about his health. First, bots fanned out on social media with lies that the pres­id­ent hadn’t been seen for “eight days” and had...

ArticleCape May mayor to face Van Drew in N. J. dis­trict

CAPE MAY — Cape May Mayor Zack Mul­lock won the Demo­cratic primary to face U. S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew in New Jer­sey’s 2nd Dis­trict, the Asso­ci­ated Press has pro­jec­ted. Mul­lock, 40, defeated Bayly Winder, the best- fun­ded can­did­ate with...

ArticleHILTON, BECERRA PULLING AHEAD OF STEYER

As elec­tion offi­cials con­tin­ued tal­ly­ing bal­lots Wed­nes­day, Repub­lican Steve Hilton and Demo­crat Xavier Becerra con­tin­ued to lead in the unsettled race to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin New­som, with bil­lion­aire Demo­crat Tom Steyer...

ArticleDANA WHITE “I WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL EVERY TIME I GET OUT OF BED.”