Civil Rights and Social Justice
The war between the news media and President Donald Trump just got worse.
Democratic lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would ban the practice of "conversion therapy," treatments that historically have targeted the LGBT community and claim to be able to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
A bill to ban conversion therapy died last year in Congress. On Tuesday, they'll file it again.
The congressman representing UCLA and much of West Los Angeles held a town hall Thursday where he used satire, video clips and celebrities to keep the discussion light.
About 400 people packed the Santa Monica High School theater and greeted Rep. Ted Lieu with a standing ovation.
A recent airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq is believed to have caused more than 270 civilian deaths, a tragedy that provoked an international outpouring of grief and outrage.
President Donald Trump's unique tweeting habits have helped him build a public persona that is direct, candid, and pugnacious. While he is not the first politician to us Twitter as a direct mouthpiece to the people, he takes his candidness to a new level.
Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland.
A nationwide movement that began 53 years ago to reform the pretrial incarceration and money bail process has finally reached the legislative committees and political bargaining tables in Washington and Sacramento.
It's depressing to admit, but let's do it anyway: there are few politicians in the world more skilled at manipulating Twitter than President Trump.
Representative Ted Lieu, D-CA, speaks on the meeting between Rex Tillerson and Vladimir Putin. He also discusses the United States policies regarding Syria.