Owen Tucker-Smith
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Owen Tucker-Smith is a former 2023 politics reporting intern in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times. He previously covered California politics at Politico and the Sacramento Bee; before that, he wrote about housing and water issues for the Salt Lake Tribune. He was a city hall reporter and managing editor at the Yale Daily News, his student paper.
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House Republicans have proposed a government funding bill that would gut funding directed toward better understanding the causes and impacts of gun violence.
Aug. 3, 2023
Gun violence research has seen a resurgence over the last four years -- but that could end if Congress takes away funding.
July 26, 2023
The state maintains a single file that records every legal handgun transfer since 1996 and every rifle and shotgun transfer since 2014. No other state has anything like it.
July 25, 2023
The White House has credited Julie Su with cutting deals on key labor disputes, but the former California labor chief is sitting out strikes in her home state.
July 22, 2023
The House approved a resolution declaring that Israel is not a ‘racist state,’ effectively rebuking Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who had suggested otherwise.
July 18, 2023
Julie Su was dealt a setback when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he wouldn’t support her nomination to become secretary of Labor.
July 13, 2023
123 companies, universities and trade associations spent $94 million lobbying the federal government on issues including AI in the first quarter of 2023 alone.
July 5, 2023
The California Democrat is still recovering from a serious shingles infection and will not travel home to San Francisco for the Fourth of July recess, her office said.
June 29, 2023
House Republicans voted Wednesday to censure Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank, a decision that could ultimately aid the Democrat in his run for the Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein.
June 21, 2023
President Biden’s son Hunter has been charged with failing to pay federal income tax and is expected to be charged with illegally possessing a weapon.
June 20, 2023