Columnist for the Los Angeles Times
Columnist for the Los Angeles TimesPROFILE
Tim Rutton
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FROM Tim Rutton
Which Way, L.A.?
Are the Feds After Delgadillo or Not? This week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo was under investigation by the FBI. Delgadillo’s office said he had not been contacted and accused somebody of a “political agenda.” City Controller, Laura Chick, who’s been squabbling over an audit of Delgadillo’s office, said agents has spoken to her but she would not say why.
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Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
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President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.