After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern Idaho pride event, including one identified as its founder, LGBTQ advocates said Sunday that polarization and a fraught political climate are putting their community increasingly at risk. The 31 Patriot Front members...
Senate Negotiators Announce a Bipartisan Deal on Guns
WASHINGTON — Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs. The proposal falls far short of tougher steps long sought by...
Washington Post Fires Reporter at Center of Online Feud With Colleagues
NEW YORK — The Washington Post has fired Felicia Sonmez, who triggered a vigorous online debate this week over social media policy and public treatment of colleagues after she criticized a fellow reporter for retweeting an offensive joke. The Post said Friday it would not comment on personnel issues....
How Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Allegedly Lit Capitol Riot Fuse
The first public hearing of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack put a spotlight on two far-right extremist groups whose members are accused of plotting for weeks to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Top leaders and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers...
Panel Blames Trump for 1/6 ‘Attempted Coup.’ McCarthy Calls Inquiry a Scam.
WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump, saying the assault was not spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president's effort to overturn the 2020 election. With a never-before-seen...
US Inflation Hits 40-Year High of 8.6%. What Will Biden Do About It?
WASHINGTON — The prices of gas, food, and most other goods and services jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from 12 months earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year increase of 8.3%, the...
Squeeze Your Sriracha Bottle to the Last Drop. Hot Sauce in Short Supply.
IRWINDALE — Bottles of the popular Sriracha hot sauce could be hard to find on store shelves this summer. Southern California-based Huy Fong Inc., told customers in an email earlier this year that it would suspend sales of its famous spicy sauce over the summer due to a shortage...
Dems Want Abortion to Be a California Constitutional Right
SACRAMENTO — The right to an abortion and to use or refuse contraceptives would be enshrined in the California Constitution under an amendment announced Wednesday by Democratic legislative leaders who are seeking to blunt a possible U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections. Lawmakers are moving quickly to...
Venezuelans Swell Refugee Caravan Hoping to Reach the US
HUIXTLA, Mexico — After walking for two days along rural highways in southern Mexico with several thousand other migrants, Venezuelan Wilber Pires spent what was supposed to be a day of rest for the caravan asking for help to buy medicine for his daughter. Two-year-old Valesca Pires was...
5 Marines Killed in California Desert in Another Osprey Aircraft Crash
SAN DIEGO — All five Marines on board an Osprey aircraft were killed when it crashed in the California desert near the Arizona border, the Marine Corps said Thursday, a day after the accident. The MV-22 Osprey went down at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday during training in a remote area...