After publication, Harris' campaign spokesman told HuffPost the policy was a "mistake" and that the senator "wouldn't support something like it today."

The "progressive prosecutor" wanted to transform how California responded to students missing school. Parents like Cheree Peoples wound up paying the price.

OneWest Bank, which Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin ran from 2009 to 2015, repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws, according to a previously undisclosed 2013 memo...

In the 2016 election cycle, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin donated to only one Democratic Senate candidate.  But it wasn’t Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the only Democrat who voted to...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said “technical reasons” would push back the new note bearing the abolitionist’s likeness by six years.

For many people in the Black community, Kamala Harris' history as a prosecutor is disturbing and reason to

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) turned heads on Monday after admitting that she smoked marijuana during college. But one detail about the prosecutor-turned-Democratic-presidential-candidate’s stoner days...

Kamala Harris has matched every one of her progressive achievements with conservative ones.

A San Fernando Valley man whose conviction was overturned three years ago waits to see how a recent Supreme Court ruling impacts his case.

In November, California voters will have their first chance in a decade to reform the state's "three strikes and you're out" law, which has imposed cruel life sentences on thousands for rel

As she campaigns to become only the second black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the California attorney general is trying to chart a middle course on the Democratic Party’s most contentious issue:...

Thanks to Kamala Harris’s predecessor, the San Francisco DA’s office had files on clergy sex abusers. But Harris refused to share them with victims.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris made a new request to halt a ruling in favor of gender reassignment surgery for transgender inmate.

As Kamala Harris begins her presidential run, her move to block gender affirming surgery for an incarcerated transgender woman deserves scrutiny, especially as new cases highlighting the struggle for...

Mercury News editorial: Kamala Harris needs to tackle prison standoff

And Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants President Donald Trump in prison.

While Trump threatens Iran and Venezuela with new wars, 400 Congress members, including leaders from both parties, want to intensify the eight-year war on Syria, to weaken Iran, Russia, and Hezboll...

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Asked last week if she believes President Donald Trump is a racist, California Sen. Kamala Harris told The Root, “I don’t think you can reach any other conclusion.”

A sex workers' rights organization wants to legalize prostitution in California via a federal court challenge to the state's sex solicitation law. The office of Attorney General Kamala Harris...

Women in the industry say now they'll have no choice but to work the streets.

Men don’t have to agree to sex in order to get busted in a prostitution sting. They just have to seem interested.

Kamala Harris is facing criticism from Latino activists for failing to investigate multi-level marketing company Herbalife as California attorney general.

This report based on verified documents makes Kamala Harris look untrustworthy.

Despite evidence that PG&E was responsible for repeated safety violations and involved in deadly wildfires, lawmakers have continued to benefit from its political donations.

The California senator made the announcement on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

By stating she would eliminate private insurers as a necessary part of implementing "Medicare-for-all," California Sen. Kamala Harris during a CNN town hall Monday night sent a shockwave through the...

As most 2020 contenders skipped the D.C. conference of pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, Kamala Harris attended an off-the-record meeting there.

A judge said Harris had “failed” in her duty to inform defendants of problems. Harris said in an interview she had “no excuses” and learned lessons she will apply to her presidential bid.

Cosponsors of S.722 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017

The war drums get louder after Iran announces that it will exceed the uranium stockpile limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal.

If we nominate a candidate plagued by a litany of disqualifying issues, Trump will win. We can’t make that mistake again.