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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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.
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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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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.
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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