Coronavirus
Health officials said a new strain — different from a highly contagious variant first identified in the U.K. — is popping up across the state.
Many Californians 65 and older faced frustration and confusion as they tried to get the coronavirus vaccine after the state announced it was opening up vaccinations to older people.
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‘Light at the end of tunnel’ or a small blip? Flattening COVID-19 numbers bring guarded optimism in California.
Health officials set aside carefully considered plans for rolling out COVID-19 vaccines and made the shots widely available. That may hasten the pandemic’s end.
Transfer of power
Small groups, some carrying weapons, gathered in a handful of state capitals, including Austin, Texas; Phoenix; Salem, Ore., and Lansing, Mich.
U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing the inauguration.
After House impeachment, a Senate trial looms for the soon-to-be-private-citizen Trump. His allies cry foul.
All but one of California’s Republican members of Congress voted against President Trump’s impeachment.
President Trump tried to marginalize California. He failed. Now, with Joe Biden and Democrats taking power, no state is more influential in setting a policy agenda.
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Guatemalan police and soldiers have used tear gas and wielded batons against a group of Honduran migrants who tried to push through a roadblock.
Sammy Potter and Jackson Parell set out New Year’s Day to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. They plan to also traverse the Continental Divide and the Pacific Rim.
Spector revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s but spent his final years behind bars after shooting and killing an aspiring actress in his Alhambra mansion.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s arrest upon arriving in Moscow after recovering from his poisoning has drawn sharp criticism from the West.
The latest episode of HBO’s documentary about Tiger Woods takes a look at his relationship with Rachel Uchitel. Here are 15 takeaways from Episode 2.
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I would catch a glimpse of the Capitol from my parents’ car and seriously wonder why anyone would want to go back to Virginia if they didn’t have to.
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The Lakers’ 2020 NBA championship rings may have cost more than $20,000 each and feature nods to Kobe Bryant and the unique challenges the season presented.
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Le Petit Cirque is like a mini Cirque du Soleil for kids. How the Inglewood circus studio has adapted to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What You Need To Know
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California has failed to quickly get the lifesaving doses to its most vulnerable population, residents of long-term care facilities, new data show.
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Some counties begin vaccinating older residents. Others, including L.A. County, need to finish inoculating first responders and medical workers first.
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The new stimulus bill passed by Congress includes $25 billion in rental relief for struggling tenants, $2.6 billion of which is coming to California. Can I apply?
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The mobs attacking the Capitol were terrifying, but they aren’t the greatest danger to American democracy.
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With the execution Friday night of Dustin Higgs, the Trump administration ended a killing spree unrivaled in modern federal history.
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Kennedy awarded the medal to Ralph Bunche and E.B. White. Reagan bestowed it on Mother Teresa. Trump gave it to ... Devin Nunes?
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California’s top epidemiologist told healthcare providers on Sunday to stop using a batch of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine after a “higher than usual” number of people had apparent allergic reactions at a San Diego vaccination clinic.
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In ‘Let Them All Talk,’ the veteran actress improvises dialogue, works with Steven Soderbergh and gets into that fight. It was ‘just heaven.’
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Attending a Lakers game at Staples Center without fans amid the pandemic is a strange experience for players and an exercise in futility for others.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy
As memories of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and death continue to resound, his legacy looms large in the present. Many are likening the partnership of incoming Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the solidarity of King and Jewish leaders in the civil rights movement, while the new documentary “MLK/FBI” connects the past to our troubling present.
Martin Luther King Jr. understood that the official power of the state to punish and murder Black people was fatal for a democracy.
Visual Storytelling
Jenn Harris introduces us to Egg Salad Sando, a new Instagram pop-up business offering superb egg salad sandwiches in the L.A. area.
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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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Mexican journalists call the crime beat “la nota roja,” the red story. Lurid details guarantee web hits, but documenting the mayhem is among the riskiest assignments.
Betty White turns 99 on Sunday, and to honor her nearly 10 decades, we have 10 bits of trivia about the beloved “Golden Girls” star. (She has a lousy diet?!)
She became the national youth poet laureate at age 16; six years later, she’ll read her poem at Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’ historic swearing-in.
“All Creatures Great and Small” and “Miss Scarlet & the Duke” are ideal for the long tradition of American viewers looking across the pond for cultural relief.
Without deviating from the injustices of the past, Sam Pollard’s documentary is effortlessly conversant with the injustices of the present.
Brandon Staley, coming off his first season as the Rams’ defensive coordinator, has agreed to become the new head coach of the Chargers.
Scores of tennis players scheduled to compete in the Australian Open are in a strict coronavirus lockdown that is preventing them from practicing.
The Golden State Warriors aren’t the same team they were a few seasons ago when they dominated the NBA. Will the Lakers be the next titan in the West?
Nathan Chen won his fifth straight U.S. Figure Skating Championship title Sunday, becoming the first skater since Dick Button to achieve the feat.
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With less-frequent trips to grocery stores encouraged right now, stock up on these pantry essentials to get dinner on the table easily.
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Thinly slicing Buddha’s hand transforms it from creepy to stunning in this modern tart made inspired by an old-fashioned pie.
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Our critic names some exceptional restaurants that opened in an impossible year.
Brazil has approved the use of COVID-19 vaccines made by Sinovac and AstraZeneca as the coronavirus continues to slam Latin America’s largest country.
Twitter has temporarily suspended the account of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories online.
Chinese state media say that 12 out of 22 workers trapped for a week after an explosion in a gold mine are alive.
Israeli authorities say they have advanced plans to build nearly 800 homes in West Bank settlements.
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For Disney, ending the annual pass program might be “a blessing in disguise,” a theme park expert says: Now the company can revamp the program to boost profits.
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Hiking and biking on backwoods trails offer travelers a couple of ways to explore — and still keep their distance from others.
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Give another look to your daily rituals as well as your pandemic-era grooming and wellness with these tips.
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La presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes de EEUU dice que hay procedimientos vigentes que impedirían a Donald Trump disparar armas nucleares
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Marjorie Leach, 101, is one of those men and women who are at least 100 years old and have survived COVID-19.
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Se proyecta que Cyber Monday alcanzará $12.7 mil millones impulsados por la pandemia
Join the Conversation
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Across the country, fast-food restaurants have struggled to maintain the health and safety of front-line workers who face conditions that frequently put themselves and their families at risk of COVID-19.
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Why so many military veterans and former and current police officers support — and take part in — far-right groups and protests, including the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Many teachers, grocers and even some hospital employees are wary of the COVID-19 vaccine and don’t want it. The question of mandatory vaccine requirements by employers is complicated.
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This Saturday is the Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park in South Florida. It has evolved a lot since its inception a few years ago.
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The Eclipse Award nominees prove how dominant Bob Baffert is not just in Southern California, but nationwide.
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What the acquisition of Williams’ archive could reveal about the little-studied architect. Plus, “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” and Kennedy Center Honors in our weekly arts newsletter.
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Nadine Labaki is among the cast of ‘1982,’ set during the First Lebanon War.
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What’s on TV tonight, Monday, Jan. 18: “American Masters: How It Feels to Be Free” on PBS
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More than a decade after her involvement with Tiger Woods, Uchitel says employers are still wary of her: “They’ve told me flat out that I’m too scandalous.”
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The ending of ‘Promising Young Woman’ is a destabilizing shock to audiences. Writer-director Emerald Fennell and stars Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham share their thoughts on why the movie had to end the way it does.
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One person was killed and two seriously injured in a two-alarm fire in Malibu that started at a home and spread into nearby brush, Los Angeles County fire officials said.
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U.S. Rep. Lou Correa says he’s tested positive for the virus. He received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Dec. 19.
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Local, state and federal authorities will assist in putting on the King of the Hammers event later this month, despite pandemic restrictions on travel and crowds.
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Amateur detectives working to identify violent rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol don’t want the process to turn into an online witch hunt.
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Indiana Pacers coach Nate Bjorkgren, who worked with Kawhi Leonard in Toronto, got another reminder of Leonard’s abilities in the Clippers’ 129-96 win.
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With Brandon Staley leaving to become coach of the Chargers, Sean McVay and the Rams are once again looking for a defensive coordinator.
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A year after his unceremonious departure from New England, Tom Brady is one win away from yet another Super Bowl heading into championship Sunday.
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Kevin Na birdied three straight holes and finished with an up-and-down birdie from behind the 18th green to claim his fifth career PGA win.
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When the incoming Biden administration takes charge of a Pentagon rocked by years of leadership churn, it’ll look to a holdover to provide continuity.
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Those who stormed the Capitol and their attorneys in early defense arguments say they went there at the ‘invitation’ of President Trump or were let in by police.
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World Central Kitchen’s Nate Mook and José Andrés realized their expertise in feeding large groups at a moment’s notice could help feed the Guard at the Capitol.
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said in an interview with The Times that she would resign her Senate seat Monday.
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Security remained tight around state houses throughout the country as fears of major protests by armed, far-right supporters of President Trump outside the Capitol and at state capitols Sunday proved unfounded, with only small groups, some carrying weapons, gathering in a handful of cities.
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An AP review of records finds veterans of President Trump’s failed campaign were key players in the rally that spawned the U.S. Capitol assault.
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A Sudanese doctors’ union says the death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in West Darfur province has climbed to at least 83, including women and children.
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Russia’s prison service said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany on Sunday.
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I was still recovering from breast cancer. And my heart was shattered. I vowed I wouldn’t get back out in the dating world until I had worked through my fears and would take as much time as I needed to heal before attempting a new relationship.
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Illustrations by Slimy Oddity In history books of the future, the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic will be described in painstaking detail.
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Marina Thompson has a secret. The “Bridgerton” character, played by Ruby Barker, wears a lover’s eye necklace in the first episode, tipping off Regency buffs.
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The eagle nest we’re all watching now, good hikes for children and where to look for whales.
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For all the risks U.S. investors are still facing, the political party of the incoming president isn’t necessarily one of them.
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‘The Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah and ‘CSI’ actor David Berman are among the celebrities wheeling and dealing in the real estate market.
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From one modern mansion to another, ‘The Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah recently dropped $27.5 million on an 11,000-square-foot Bel-Air showplace.
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While side hustles that nurture the soul are not the highest-earning jobs, they allow you to feed your passions while padding your pocketbook.
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Explore Kenai Fjords National Park, Hawaii Volcanos National Park and Crater Lake National Park with these virtual travel activities.
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Airbnb and HotelTonight are canceling reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
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Santa Monica Pier will close on weekends. Boat service to Channel Islands National Park has been suspended.
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These local mountain spots are often blanketed in white.
