Coronavirus in California
The state is on the cusp of its rollout of millions of immunizations, a much-anticipated turning point after thousands of deaths from the coronavirus.
Southern California and the Central Valley are by far the state’s biggest contributors of total COVID-19 deaths in the last week.
More Californians died of COVID-19 on Tuesday than any other day on record, the latest milestone reached amid an accelerating pandemic.
Experts have yet to unlock the connection between the coronavirus and MIS-C, but doctors say COVID infections spike is tied to uptick in MIS-C cases.
Facing backlash from parents, the state of California reverses its COVID-19 rules and says playgrounds can remain open.
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White and higher-income Californians are most likely to believe today’s children will be worse off than their parents, a new statewide survey finds.
President Trump’s extraordinary and longshot effort to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin returns to the state’s courtrooms.
The disclosure of the investigation comes at an awkward moment for the incoming president.
A study raises concerns that six feet of social distance may not be far enough to keep people safe from the coronavirus.
A Times investigation found care failures at hospices, including mismanaged medications, neglected wounds and missed appointments.
The vaccine, already approved in Britain and Canada, will be examined by an FDA advisory panel in a livestreamed public hearing.
Graduates of high-poverty, low-income and urban schools have been the most severely affected in terms of going on to college, a study shows.
Although President-Elect Joe Biden didn’t make tech regulation a focus of his campaign, antitrust experts say he’s likely to continue the Trump administration’s push to curb Facebook’s market power.
President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Katherine Tai as U.S. Trade Representative, a Cabinet-level position.
Xavier Becerra is Washington-ready, not a naïve outsider who needs D.C. training wheels, columnist George Skelton writes.
Former basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reveals he had prostate cancer in a magazine article he wrote about health risks faced by Black people.
The NFL’s history of confronting crisis is a crisis unto itself. Is there reason to believe the league has the courage to make the hardest decisions about the coronavirus?
What You Need To Know
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It will take time to build the trust needed to convince people to get the vaccine, and that’s particularly important in California’s Latino community.
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The L.A. Zoo, campgrounds and playgrounds closed are again.
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As the pandemic worsens and California’s stay-at-home order spreads, many families are rearranging travel
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As Biden puts his finishing touches on his Defense and foreign policy teams, here’s a look at what their goals and challenges will be.
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Authorities are losing a public frustrated by mixed messages to a health threat that’s still largely abstract to many and a Congress that has yet to get financial relief to the people who desperately need it.
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The antitrust suits filed against Facebook were an inevitable response to problems the giant social network was simply too big to solve.
Outdoor Dining Ban
An L.A. Superior Court judge has limited L.A. County’s outdoor dining ban to three weeks. But a state order will keep restrictions in place past Christmas. The judge is asking health officials to conduct a risk-benefit analysis. Many restaurant owners and employees worry about the economic hardship ahead. Some wonder if officials went too far. Others have defied the state’s lockdown rules.
A judge has ruled that once the L.A. County ban expires Dec. 16, public health officials must conduct a risk-benefit analysis to extend any closures.
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What We’re Into is a new series about the food and restaurants the L.A. Times food staff can’t get enough of. In our debut episode, Jenn Harris highlights the num pang, a Cambodian spicy pork sandwich she discovered from an Instagram post.
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Paramahansa Yogananda found in Los Angeles the perfect home base for an organization which remains a worldwide spiritual force to this day.
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Two families’ struggle for justice reveals the dark truth of Saudi Arabia’s labor system.
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California and L.A. County reversed their closure of outdoor playgrounds on Wednesday, to the relief of many parents and caregivers across the state.
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Lebanon’s official news agency says the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers have been charged in August’s massive Beirut blast.
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Dr. Deborah Birx, President Trump’s coronavirus task force coordinator, would like a role in the Biden administration, but her reputation has frayed.
New dark comedy ‘The Stand In’ pits a big star (Drew Barrymore) against her lookalike (also Drew Barrymore).
There is still an awards season. And, as always, The Times will be right there to capture all of it, from those living in the spotlight to those working backstage on ‘The Envelope’ podcast.
Business is brisk for the archival company as movies, TV and recording industries dig deeper into their past.
“Someone tell him this isn’t Richard III,” one viewer wrote of Matthew Morrison’s Joker-inspired Grinch. We round up more of the best reactions here.
Johnny Juzang sank a three-pointer on his first shot in a UCLA jersey as he scored 10 points off the bench in the Bruins’ 83-56 win over San Diego on Wednesday at Pauley Pavilion.
In their last game of the year, U.S. national soccer routs El Salvador 6-0.
The board of stewards at Santa Anita decided that the results of the 2018 Santa Anita Derby would not be overturned as the result of a drug positive for Justify.
The senior surpasses 1,500 career points in the Bruins’ 102-45 victory over the Gauchos at Pauley Pavilion.
Lebanon’s official news agency says the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers have been charged in August’s massive Beirut blast.
Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been confined since 2018, just after Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
After serving 31 years, 71-year-old Richard DeLisi left a Florida prison grateful and unresentful.
Arguments over mask requirements have turned ugly in recent days as the coronavirus surge engulfs small and medium-size cities that once seemed at a safe distance from the pandemic.
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Pop-up restaurants and other takeout upstarts have become a tangible part of dining in pandemic-era Los Angeles.
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The best pop-ups take on 2020 and reshape the future of L.A. dining.
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What does it mean to be a neighborhood restaurant in the middle of a pandemic? We checked in with four decades-old restaurants to see how they’re surviving.
Guide to the Holidays
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‘Tis the season to lend a hand. Don’t you have a neighborhood joint or two that needs your support?
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Download these holiday patterns made by local artists and bring joy to meetings everywhere by putting them behind your head while you Zoom.
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We’ve compiled luxe-filled lists of fashionable finds from coats and kicks to timepieces and timeless jewelry, and from self-care gifts to home goods and loungewear to splurge on.
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Want to get in the holiday spirit? These family-run tree farms allow you to choose and cut your own Christmas tree.
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The online festivities include latke-making classes, sing-alongs and a puppetry performance.
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Welcome to our comprehensive gift guide for the 2020 holiday season.
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¿Por qué los Dodgers capturarán su primer título de Serie Mundial desde 1988? Hay una confiabilidad en este equipo que estuvo ausente en años anteriores
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Se proyecta que Cyber Monday alcanzará $12.7 mil millones impulsados por la pandemia
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La mentira del fraude electoral tiene tres características que sobrecargan su atractivo psicológico, que puede durar mucho tiempo después de que Biden tome posesión del cargo.
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Here’s how officials in California plan to handle the first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations.
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The Bruins scored 50 points in the second half to secure their fourth straight win.
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Also, two well-known horses were retired recently.
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A South Korean study raises concerns that six feet of social distance may not be far enough to keep people safe from the coronavirus.
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The first COVID-19 vaccine could arrive in California this week. Here is how officials plan to handle the first wave of vaccinations.
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After “a gloomy COVID winter,” widespread vaccination will bring years of robust growth to California’s economy, the UCLA Anderson forecast says.
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Sheriffs in Southern California are turning out to be Keystone corona-Kops during the COVID-19 pandemic, failing to bring law and order to their counties.
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The management of an extended-stay Studio 6 motel in Commerce locked out formerly homeless residents even as L.A. County was buying the property to house homeless people.
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Nowhere has the hospice industry’s growth been more explosive, and its harmful side effects more evident, than in Los Angeles County.
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AT&T on Wednesday said it will sell anime streamer Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation Global Group for $1.175 billion.
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Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan and Christopher Walken star in writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s “Wild Mountain Thyme,” an adaptation of the playwright’s 2014 romantic comedy.
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What’s on TV Thursday, Dec. 10: “One Night Only: The Best of Broadway” on NBC; NFL Football: The New England Patriots visit the Rams; “Time Person of the Year” on NBC
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Sienna Miller and Diego Luna star in the mind-, time- and sometimes patience-bending romantic thriller “Wander Darkly,” written and directed with style and empathy by Tara Miele.
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Rather than fight over the one Senate seat being vacated by Kamala Harris, California could have two seats if Sen. Dianne Feinstein would only retire.
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The Long Beach Fire Department has extracted a woman who was trapped in a truck pinned underneath a container loader at the Port of Long Beach.
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Nine companies affiliated with Gov. Gavin Newsom took the loans to help small businesses survive the pandemic. Newsom put his holdings into a blind trust and so would not have participated in the decision to obtain the loans.
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L.A. could steer millions of dollars cut from the LAPD’s budget into nuts-and-bolts city services. One critic called it “glorified pork-barrel spending.”
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Recaps and scores of today’s men’s Pac-12 basketball teams in action.
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Recaps and scores of today’s men’s top 25 college basketball teams in action.
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Ray Perkins, the former Alabama receiver who replaced Bear Bryant as Crimson Tide’s coach and started the transition with the New York Giants that led to two Super Bowl titles, died Wednesday.
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Dodgers’ Mookie Betts and Angels’ Mike Trout and made the MLB All First Team.
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The Senate has fallen short of rejecting the proposed $23-billion arms sales to the United Arab Emirates.
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The House easily passed a one-week government-wide funding bill that sets a new Dec. 18 deadline to buy time for more COVID-19 relief talks and a catchall spending bill.
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The state Cannabis Advisory Committee recommended changes that included lifting the $5,000 limit on the amount of pot that can be carried by delivery vans.
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As ad spending in the Georgia Senate runoff races closes in on $400 million, Republicans hold a significant advantage, the latest figures show.
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The mother of a Black man fatally shot in Columbus by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy is demanding answers about her son’s death.
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Commercial flights with Boeing 737 Max jetliners have resumed for the first time since they were grounded worldwide nearly two years ago following two deadly accidents.
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Canada’s health regulator has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has advocated tougher coronavirus restrictions as the country reports its highest single-day COVID-19 death toll.
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The California Native Plant Society is hosting it’s first-ever state-wide wreath-making contest, with celebrity judges and prizes. The only catch is that at least 51% of the wreaths must be made from California native plants. The goal is to build awareness about native plants while stoking some badly needed holiday cheer.
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‘It’s so important for me to represent L.A. this season,’ said Gottmik, a makeup artist and the first out transgender man to be cast in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’
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For its Colors of the Year, Pantone picks a union exuding “positivity and fortitude — Ultimate Gray and Illuminating.
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Gen Z influencer Liv Huffman turned the #harrystyles cardigan into an international crochet project.
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SpaceX’s shiny, bullet-shaped Starship soared several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas.
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Airbnb has priced its initial public offering of stock at $68 per share, significantly above its target range, in a sign of investor confidence in both Airbnb’s home-sharing business and the long-term recovery of the travel industry at large.
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U.S. stock indexes pulled back from their recent record highs Wednesday as COVID-19 cases surged and vaccines moved closer to distribution.
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Developer Nile Niami just sold a Hollywood Hills home for $9.58 million, a bit more than he paid five years ago when he bought it from Scooter Braun.
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At Mammoth and elsewhere, overnight visitors are banned and confusion persists.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic worsening and a California stay-at-home order about to go into effect, many families are rethinking holiday travel plans.
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Gov. Newsom’s order Thursday prohibits overnight stays at campgrounds. Hotels and lodgings are limited to ‘essential travelers’
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This new phase in the pandemic means new rules for hotels and other travel providers.
