For nearly five years, California reigned supreme in the U.S. House of Representatives, with the speaker’s gavel passing uninterrupted across party lines from Rep. Nancy…
Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-Calif. looks on during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on October 4. She said she will not seek Dianne Feinstein's…
In her “Introduction to Gerontology” class, USC professor Caroline Cicero shows her students a CNN profile of Sen. Dianne Feinstein that first aired in 2017.…
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom has picked Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist who rose to prominence in the labor movement, to fill the Senate seat held…
No cause of death has been disclosed for Dianne Feinstein, the longtime California senator who struggled with evident health problems in her final years before…
A spokesperson for Feinstein said the late senator’s daughter, Katherine Feinstein, would also be on the government plane that was authorized by the White House.…
Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the past few days as one might expect, privately grieving his “dear friend” Sen. Dianne Feinstein as “a lifelong mentor and…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the most senior Democrat on two of the Senate’s most powerful committees, and her death could set off a cascade…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein wasn’t feeling well this week, so she skipped a Thursday morning Judiciary Committee meeting, as has become her custom since her…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein‘s death while in office has reignited a discussion about congressional term limits and an ongoing, uncomfortable conversation about the age of…
On a cool autumn morning 45 years ago, Dianne Feinstein was the first to find the body. It was November 1978, and San Francisco Supervisor…
1969 Then Supervisor-elect Dianne Feinstein poses with her husband, Dr. Bertram Feinstein and her daughter, Kathy, after becoming the first woman ever elected to the…
SACRAMENTO — The death of California’s venerable Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein turns attention to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who now faces the politically challenging task of…
The polished and unflappable public image that Sen. Dianne Feinstein maintained for decades is faltering as she prepares to retire at the end of her…
SACRAMENTO — On the shores of Lake Tahoe this week another milestone was evident in the slow transition of California’s top leadership to a new generation…
WASHINGTON — In the race to replace Dianne Feinstein in the Senate, the three major Democratic candidates call themselves progressives, hold nearly identical stances on most…
But California Republicans are such a distinct minority group in the blue state — they make up about a third of the electorate — that,…
If California Sen. Dianne Feinstein leaves Congress before her term is over, she won’t be replaced by Oprah Winfrey. The media mogul’s spokeswoman on Thursday…
WASHINGTON — Ahoy! It’s Ben Oreskes filling in while Laurel Rosenhall is on special assignment. I’m here with a quick swing through the world of California…
SACRAMENTO — Sen. Dianne Feinstein has not said much publicly since returning to Washington, D.C., last week following a long stay at home in San Francisco…