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Ron Johnson, United States senator from Wisconsin, during a congressional hearing on Thursday, November 13, 2025. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

GOPer endorses discredited doc's book

Megan O’Matz - ProPublica
Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Rankin, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024. (REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump revokes Harris’ protection detail

Blaise Malley
LA Mayor Karen Bass and other Black mayors push back against President Donald Trump's claims that their cities are now "lawless." These cities are actually seeing major decreases in violent crime this year. (MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News / Getty Images)

Black Mayors vs Trump’s “lawless” claims

CK Smith
A federal judge said ICE cannot use racially motivated tactics to find and arrest illegal immigrants. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Judge blocks Trump ICE raids in LA

CK Smith
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A protester in a Trump mask during the No Kings demonstration in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, 2025. (LAUREN PUENTE/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump sues LA

Alex Galbraith
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller talks to reporters outside of the White House West Wing on May 09, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Miller accuses Newsom of "insurrection"

Cheyenne McNeill
Bill Maher visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Maher pins LA fires on local pols

Griffin Eckstein
Rachel Campos-Duffy on 'Fox & Friends Weekend' on July 04, 2021 in New York City. (James Devaney/GC Images)

Fox host: LA fire vics will turn on Dems

Griffin Eckstein
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Donald Trump. Heavy smoke rises from a wildfire burning in a mountain near a residential area on September 10, 2024 in Irvine, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

Republicans seek revenge with LA fires

Heather Digby Parton
Maxar shortwave infrared closer satellite image of burning buildings on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Getty Images/Maxar Technologies)

LA wildfires force 130K to evacuate

Nicholas Liu
Counter protesters attack a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as clashes erupt, in Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

Pro-Israel violence erupts at UCLA

Charles R. Davis
President Barack Obama drops by VP Joe Biden's meeting with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev in the Vice President's Office, West Wing March 20, 2009. (The Official White House Photostream / Pete Souza)

Biden's foreign policy: War or peace?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tucker: Biden VP shortlist "illegal"

Igor Derysh
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol April 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Mark Wilson)

House passes Violence Against Women Act

Shira Tarlo
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sherrod Brown says Trump is "a racist"

Matthew Rozsa
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., right,is shown with Hillary Clinton in May. (AP)

when twitter decides policy

Brendan Gauthier
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