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WASHINGTON — U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi repeatedly sparred with lawmakers on Wednesday as she was pressed over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and faced demands for greater transparency in the high-profile case. Bondi accused Democrats and at least one Republican on the House Judiciary Committee of engaging in “theatrics” as she fielded…

More than a week after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson home, authorities offered few clues. No video surveillance. No suspects. No firm sense of exactly when she was abducted. No sense of where she was being held or if she was still alive. But that changed Tuesday morning with the release of surveillance…

WASHINGTON — Public health experts warned Tuesday that $600 million in cuts to federal public health funding announced by the Trump administration would endanger one of California’s main early-warning systems for HIV outbreaks, leaving communities vulnerable to undetected disease spread. The grant terminations affect funding for a number of disease control programs in California, Colorado, Illinois and…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on California’s November ballot. The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state’s wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling federal funding cuts to…

A crucial deadline set by Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers passed without her return Monday evening, with the FBI saying it is not aware of any communication between the abductors and the Guthrie family and has not identified any suspects in the case. In a ransom note, the purported kidnappers gave the Guthries a deadline of 5…

WASHINGTON  — The White House’s TrumpRx website went live Thursday with a promise to instantly deliver prescription drugs at “the lowest price anywhere in the world.” “This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and it’s not even close,” President Trump said at a news conference announcing the…

In recent weeks, Marin County Registrar Natalie Adona has been largely focused on the many mundane tasks of local elections administrators in the months before a midterm: finalizing voting locations, ordering supplies, facilitating candidate filings. But in the wake of unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to intervene in state-run elections, Adona said she has…

A week after Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Tucson home, investigators spent the weekend searching at least two residences as more details emerged about a ransom note. The frantic search comes as Nancy’s daughter, NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, issued a second video appeal to the kidnappers. Sources told The Times the ransom note…

You may have missed it, what with President Trump’s endless pyrotechnics, but California voters will decide in November who succeeds Gavin Newsom, the highest-profile governor since the Terminator returned to Hollywood. Unfortunately for those attempting to civically engage, the current crop of contenders is, shall we say, less than enthralling. In alphabetical order (because there…

NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie made a new video pleas to the kidnappers of her mother Saturday, saying “we will pay” for her safe return. “We received your message, and we understand,” Guthrie said in the new video posted Saturday afternoon. She sat next to her brother and sister. “We beg you now to return…