Alex Padilla

Trump invites Iran to 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego

Trump faced backlash after calling a hypothetical attack by Iran on San Diego or Los Angeles a ‘very small price to pay’

Anti-ICE protesters storm Los Angeles streets as aerial footage shows true scale of demonstrations

Ahead of the November midterm elections, top Democrats are planning for doomsday scenarios for how President Donald Trump and his administration could intervene in the voting process and laying the groundwork for a forceful response

President Trump’s super PAC and affiliates have injected tens of millions of dollars into pivotal Senate and House races just one month from Election Day as the GOP looks to keep control of Congress

Trump floats $5,000 'Trump Dividend' if voters pick Republicans

Trump wants to give away parts of Yosemite to developer

On Saturday, the newspaper — one of the most prominent in the country — identified freelance reporter Matthew Cole as the target of the subpoena

US President Donald Trump is giving a primetime speech on Thursday night focusing on foreign efforts to influence US elections

Balogun, named in US coach Mauricio Pochettino’s starting line-up after FIFA suspended a one-game ban following lobbying by US President Donald Trump, was largely anonymous throughout Monday’s knockout tie at Seattle’s Lumen Field

Layer in a record-setting gathering of tall ships and a Times Square ball that will drop eight separate times, and the city's calendar for July 3 and 4 looks less like a holiday and more like a festival that happens to have fireworks as its centerpiece

The U.S. National Park Service on Saturday will launch over 850,000 fireworks into the skies of Washington, bathing the capital in patriotic blasts of light for the nation’s 250th birthday

When Richard Woo first arrived in the United States from Taiwan, China, as an international student nearly five decades ago, he remembers a United States that embodied opportunity, optimism and affordability

This comes after Trump had signed an executive order on the first day of his presidency decreeing those born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas could not automatically become Americans

An election worker collects extracted vote by mail ballots to be tallied at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Ballot Processing Center in May

US President Donald Trump has tried his best to ensure that America's 250th birthday celebrations revolve around one man: himself

The proposal from Sable Offshore Corp. would extend the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to California amid ongoing supply challenges from the Iran war

Despite Democrats’ six-point advantage in the generic ballot over Republicans, per the RealClear Polling average, their favorability rating is nearly 20 points underwater

Before bringing it up, Republicans followed through on a decision they made late last month to jettison $1 billion in security funds for Mr. Trump’s ballroom and other White House renovations, which had drawn a mini-revolt within his party

Senate Republicans plan to take $1 billion fund toward White House ballroom out of spending bill

Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Rules ​Committee

The last time this city’s voters had someone other than Nancy Pelosi representing them in Congress, there were no self-driving taxis on the streets, no AI ads competing for space around the tie-dye shop in Haight-Ashbury

Alex Padilla was in the Library of Congress with several dozen other senators when their phones all buzzed with the news of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act

John Kennedy (R-La.) to instruct the Senate Rules Committee to find a way to add the core elements of the SAVE America Act to a budget reconciliation package that could pass next month with a simple-majority vote

In total, Democrats have redrawn or secured maps that could net about 10 favorable seats, while Republicans are positioned for roughly nine, a near draw that assumes past voting patterns hold this November, according to Associated Press analysis

Pete Hegseth begins briefing with war crime threat to Iran

Pakistan urges calm, stresses confidentiality and ongoing mediation role

Tamira Moncur didn’t fill up her tank at an Atlanta-area gas station last month because she was afraid she couldn’t afford it

Swalwell demands FBI's Patel not release old investigative files months before election CNN

Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a shooting in Willowbrook in January

Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez arrived in the United States in 1998 as an undocumented 15-year-old

And there are few people so mythologized that they are transformed from a flawed human to a symbol for an entire community

A sweeping election bill known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is moving through Congress and could significantly change what Americans need to do in order to vote in future federal elections, potentially requiring millions of voters to present new documentation to register or cast a ballot

Senator Markwayne Mullin, whose first name is a mash-up honoring two uncles, took questions on Capitol Hill after President Trump announced his nomination on Thursday

James Talarico, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, once posted information to social media, letting illegal aliens know they could evade detention as law enforcement grappled with a wave of immigration under President Donald Trump's first term

California’s top-two primary system sends the two candidates who receive the most votes in the June primary, regardless of party, to the general election in November

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will testify before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning on oversight of the department as lawmakers remain at an impasse over funding for it

An Iranian drone has reportedly struck a US Navy base in Bahrain as Tehran retaliates to ongoing US-Israeli strikes across the country

Trump calls Democrats 'crazy' during State of the Union

Democratic party leaders have repeatedly sought to return policy discussion to kitchen-table economic issues of affordability

Padilla Urges Latinos to Mobilize for Midterms in Spanish-Language Rebuttal

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer attends a press conference with other Senate Democrats on Donald Trump’s upcoming State of the Union speech

Top Democrats gathered on the National Mall in Washington DC along with Jeffrey Epstein victims, families impacted by immigration raids, fired public health workers and Americans struggling with rising costs while Trump spoke to the joint chamber of Congress

U.S. stock futures edged higher Tuesday morning, February 24, 2026, offering a tentative rebound after Monday's sharp sell-off, as President Donald Trump's new 10% global tariff officially kicked in at midnight Eastern Time

US President Donald Trump will address the joint session of Congress at the United States Capitol on Tuesday

FedEx sues Trump administration for tariff refunds

It delivered his most consequential legal setback by blocking him from invoking emergency powers to unilaterally impose sweeping tariffs on trading partners

Gone for good are the sweeping tariffs Trump justified under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), mainly to combat America’s persistent trade deficits

Spanberger became Virginia’s first female governor earlier this year

Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident as agents worked with local police on immigration enforcement