California voters did what was widely expected and elected Rep. Adam Schiff, a Jewish Democrat, in the senate race to replace the late Dianne Feinstein, another Jewish Democrat, who died while in ...

A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former speaker of the House ...

By almost any measure, California has lost clout in Congress in the last few years, with a lack of top leaders and committee leaders.

Biden’s age and cognitive condition were central elements of the early election campaign. They weighed so heavily that he was forced to withdraw from the race in July, clearing the path for Vice ...

Craig flipped her district from red to blue when she won her first election in 2018, a sign of Minnesota’s Second ...

Former Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris holds a substantial lead over other potential ...

The District 4 supervisor is facing a recall attempt over Prop. K, which closed the Great Highway. He may want to stop ...

Those totals are likely to be far from what they will need if they seek re-election. Spending in California’s 2024 Senate race, which Schiff won, totaled $141 million, according to OpenSecrets, a ...

On his way out of the White House, Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, members of the Jan. 6 committee, and Dr. Anthony ...

Hampsten said Durbin also showed his effectiveness during Trump’s first term when he “served as a crucial voice pushing back against the unqualified Trump judicial nominees, and played a lead role ...

Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ...