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WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 07: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gestures, walking out of the Senate Chamber, celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduct Act at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Senate worked overnight Saturday into Sunday as they moved toward final passage of Senate budget reconciliation deal, which Senate Democrats have named The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The final vote was 51-50, with the tie-breaking vote being cast by Vice President Kamala Harris. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Senate Democrats pass sweeping healthcare, tax and climate bill

Senate Democrats united behind the Inflation Reduction Act to address healthcare, taxes and climate change and to let Medicare negotiate drug prices.

Monkeypox in California

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 4, 2022: Singer Kelechi Kalu of West Hollywood rehearses his music in a back house rehearsal space on August 4, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. He prefers rehearsing in a private space for fear of monkeypox.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Wary of monkeypox, California partiers take it down a notch

LGBTQ men and others change how they are socializing, celebrating and seeking love.

A monkeypox guide, separating fact and fiction

A patient receives a Monkeypox vaccination at a Pop-Up vaccination site at the West Hollywood Library community meeting room on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Opinion: Yet again, a new outbreak is hitting California Latinos especially hard

Local governments can use strategies that helped fight COVID among marginalized groups.

Battle over abortion

San Clemente, CA, Thursday, August 5, 2022 - Activity along Avenida Del Mar. San Clemente City Council is proposing an abortion ban. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Proposed abortion ban dies in San Clemente after heated City Council meeting

Biden administration, Eli Lilly condemn new Indiana abortion ban

L.A. Comedy

Commentary: The best comedy lesson Robin Williams taught me was learning to laugh at myself

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a super power that can speed your path to enlightenment.

‘A theater that is ours’: The Ledge opens a stage for L.A. improv actors of color

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Opinion

Op-Ed: California’s never-ending secessionist movement — and its grim ties to slavery in the state
Editorial: #Free Britney movement revives overdue conservatorship system reform
Editorial: Ban encampments near schools? Another L.A. restriction that doesn’t help fix homelessness

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In this photo provided by the National Park Service, cars are stuck in mud and debris from flash flooding at The Inn at Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Heavy rainfall triggered flash flooding that closed several roads in Death Valley National Park on Friday near the California-Nevada line. The National Weather Service reported that all park roads had been closed after 1 to 2 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time. (National Park Service via AP)

Destructive rain in Death Valley, flooded Vegas casinos mark a summer of extreme weather

Lightning strikes ignite cluster of Northern California wildfires

Human remains were found inside a barrel submerged in mud at Lake Mead due to a historic drought in the state of Nevada.

Fourth set of human remains found at drought-stricken Lake Mead

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 04: Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, CHP and other officials investigate a fiery crash where multiple people were killed near a Windsor Hills gas station at the intersection of West Slauson and South La Brea avenues on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

‘We forgive her,’ victim’s sister says of driver in Windsor Hill crash

San Diego, CA - August 05: At SDSU football practice field on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022 in San Diego, CA., the team starts their first practice of fall camp. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

After an alleged rape near SDSU, one investigation ends and another begins. Too little, too late?

Irvine police arrest dermatologist whose husband says she poisoned him

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Roger E. Mosley, ‘Magnum, P.I.’ star who became an influential L.A.-area track coach, dies at 83

‘Bullet Train’ chugs to the top of the domestic box office

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LOS ANGELES , CA - MAY 18: Portrait of Sarah Lariviere in her backyard in Burbank on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Los Angeles , CA. Lariviere and her husband removed their front and back lawns, replacing them with drought friendly, low water plants and desert gardens. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Tear out your lawn, save California

People in heavy beach costumes play in the ocean, where a safety rope extends into the surf.

People play in the surf near a pier. Prominent in the frame is a woman in an ankle-length blue dress and a hat

Four women walk in the sand outside a large beachfront home

A man helps a woman -- dressed in a red, knee bathing suit and black stockings -- learn to swim.

The legs of two swimmers are all that can be seen sticking out of the surf. "Surf bathing on the Pacific," the card reads.

Men in suits and women in dresses and hats gather around a thermometer on the sand in Long Beach.

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Shevchenkove, Ukraine - July 19: Tymophiy is hugged by his aunt Olena Streelets on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 in Shevchenkove, Ukraine. Twelve-year-old Tymophiy, from a village outside Kyiv, lost his mother and stepfather in the war's earliest days. They were killed in their car by fire from Russian troops. Now he and his 6-year-old half-brother, Seraphim, are starting new lives with their aunt and uncle, who want to become both boys' adoptive parents. Tymophiy has documented some of his experiences in a wartime diary, including not learning of his mother and stepfather's deaths until days after the fact.(Kyrylo Svietashov / For the Times)

A war orphan’s diary: Pages of fury and grief

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Dane DiLiegro as the Predator and Amber Midthunder in the movie "Prey."

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Sports

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Tyler Anderson throws to a San Francisco Giants.

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Latino Life

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Food

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World, Nation & Politics

4 people riding in a golf cart killed in crash at Texas intersection
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GOP seeking power over elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota

Business

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Stocks fall on Wall Street as jobs data suggest more Fed rate hikes ahead
California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features

Obituaries

Salvador Avila, bracero turned Mexican restaurant baron, dies at 99
Melissa Bank, witty bestselling author, dies at 61
L.A. artist Carole Caroompas, performer and painter who bucked convention, dies at 76
George Alexander, L.A. Times reporter who chronicled space exploration, dies

Education

California appeals court halts further construction at People’s Park in Berkeley
L.A. community colleges seek voter OK for $5.3-billion building bond, its largest ever
Corruption and fraud beset long-delayed L.A. Valley college theater project, lawsuit alleges
San Francisco school board rebukes member after race comments

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