A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A Speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former Speaker of the House ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

California has the nation’s largest population of undocumented immigrants with roughly 1.8 million people. Over the last ...

Republicans are trying to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

The in-house documentaries produced for the “SNL’s” 50th anniversary stay on-message — warm and laudatory — but have ...

President Donald Trump has hit his second term at a full sprint, marking each day with a flurry of activity meant to rebrand ...

In a feast of special programming, NBC is celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.

The Trump administration is striving, not without brutality, to purge the federal state, impose societal conservatism, and ...

Saddam Salim, D-Fairfax, as well as county representatives in the House of Delegates. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, representing the state’s largest locality with more than 1.1 ...

Disney fired its American IT staff in Orlando, Floriday, and replaced them with “high-skilled” foreign workers on H-1B visas.