UPDATED: As figures including Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom shared their tributes to Rob Reiner, it was a reminder that the director-actor’s impact on politics went beyond fund raising and celebrity endorsement. Over several decades, Reiner led efforts to pass an early childhood…

Ted Olson, the conservative attorney who formed an unexpected alliance with a liberal counterpart to mount a legal challenge to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, has died. He was 84. His law firm Gibson Dunn, where he was a partner, confirmed his death, but did not…