LOS ANGELES — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Addressing listeners on his program Monday, Limbaugh said will take some days off for further medical tests and to determine treatment. Limbaugh called himself the “mayor of Realville” in announcing his illness. He’d been...
Trump Conservative Critics Launch PAC to Fight Reelection
NEW YORK — A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers." The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal...
7 Arrested at Rally Against Ann Coulter Speech in Berkeley
BERKELEY — Police arrested at least seven people and one person was injured during a protest at the University of California, Berkeley against a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. KPIX-TV reports a protester who disrupted Coulter’s Wednesday night speech inside a University of California, Berkeley auditorium was handcuffed and taken out...
Court Appears Poised to End DACA Protection
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems prepared to allow the Trump administration to end a program that allows some immigrants to work legally in the United States and protects them from deportation. There did not appear to be any support among the five conservatives in extended arguments Tuesday...
Walters: High-Octane Ballot Measures Lining up for 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week vetoed a perennial effort by his fellow Democrats to hamstring business and conservative groups’ use of statewide ballot measures. Assembly Bill 1451 would have prohibited qualifying ballot measures by paying professional circulators on a per-signature basis, but gave Democrats’ union allies a carveout. Paraphrasing former Gov....
One America News Sues Rachel Maddow for $10M
SAN DIEGO — A conservative television network sued Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million on Monday for calling it "paid Russian propaganda." One America News filed the federal defamation suit in San Diego. The small, family-owned network based in San Diego is challenging Fox News for conservative cable and...
Billionaire Conservative Donor David Koch Dies at Age 79
WASHINGTON — Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79. Charles Koch announced the death on Friday, saying, "It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David's...
Democrats Top Republicans in Orange County Voter Rolls
SANTA ANA — There are now more registered Democrats than Republicans in the longtime conservative GOP stronghold of Orange County. Orange County's Registrar of Voters reported Wednesday there are 89 more Democrats than Republicans in the California county of 1.6 million registered voters. The parties each have about 547,000 registered...
Boris Johnson's Conservatives Face Test in Special Election
LONDON — After a first week in office that saw him booed in Scotland and berated in Belfast, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was facing his first electoral test on Thursday — a special election that could see his Conservative government's working majority in Parliament cut to just one vote....
RIP, Bill Manders. He Took on Everyone From Liberals to Nunes.
Bill Manders held to his conservative ideals on the airwaves while holding our public officials accountable. Off the air, he valued his family most. The talk radio host, whose resume reads like an American atlas, passed away Monday (May 27). He was 68. Born in Detroit and raised in southern...