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Kamala Harris’ central role in the White House’s first fight with the party’s left, over how hard to push for a higher minimum wage, shows the pitfalls ahead for her.
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Former Presidents Obama and Trump promised big infrastructure plans but didn’t deliver. President Biden says he can, despite a polarized Congress. Why the optimism?
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first opinion shields the EPA from being forced to release draft opinions on new rules.
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The Senate began debating its version of the $1.9-trillion economic aid bill Thursday, kicking off a multiday process.
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The two governors were once lauded for pandemic leadership but now are fighting for political survival.
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House Democrats have rushed to pass the most ambitious effort in decades to overhaul policing.
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A report shows that the Transportation Department’s watchdog wanted Elaine Chao to be criminally investigated when she was Transportation secretary.
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The Republican and Democratic parties’ battle over voting rights and restrictions threatens to dominate and embitter the country’s politics.
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The Times files suit to obtain documents related to a warrant used to obtain Sen. Richard Burr’s phone in FBI investigation of his stock trades.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is apologizing following sexual harassment allegations against him and said he intends to remain in office.
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The Times’ coverage of Vice President and former California senator Kamala Harris.
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Rare is the issue on which coastal and inland California agree, but fear of Blue Shield overseeing distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is one of them.
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The legislation, which Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to sign on Friday, is the most far-reaching effort by legislators in more than six months to address the educational challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The apparent lack of heavy support in the former Republican stronghold of Orange County is one reason why the GOP-backed effort to recall Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom seems headed for failure if it qualifies for a statewide ballot, columnist George Skelton writes.
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The House speaker isn’t going anywhere, yet. But that’s not stopping her would-be successors
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Walgreens and CVS Health pharmacies challenged Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent comments that the state reallocated vaccine doses based on their poor performance, saying that is “inaccurate and misinformed.”
In Depth
Becerra is on track to be the nation’s first Latino secretary of Health and Human Services.
Senate Democratic leaders and President Biden have agreed to more narrowly target which Americans would be eligible for a $1,400 stimulus payment.
The former president’s threat to wreak revenge in the 2022 midterm elections against Republicans who weren’t loyal to him could be a gift to Democrats.
Federal security officials testify at Senate hearing about what went wrong during Capitol riot, when pro-Trump mob stormed the building.
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President Biden pulled Neera Tanden’s nomination to serve as his budget director. She didn’t have enough Senate votes to be confirmed.
Politics and the Pandemic
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At least $40 billion in pandemic-related unemployment has been stolen, but Congress is about to approve more money with few new safeguards.
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The Senate has voted to confirm Miguel Cardona as Education secretary, clearing his way to lead President Biden’s effort to reopen the nation’s schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In the Central Valley, the spring harvest is coming, and the transition to Blue Shield is complicating efforts to vaccinate farmworkers against COVID-19.
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Massive fraud in the nation’s unemployment system is raising alarms even as President Biden and Congress prepare to pour billions into expanded benefits.
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The concerns over patient privacy offer a glimpse into questions being raised about the scope of Blue Shield’s role as an independent overseer of California’s network of COVID-19 vaccine providers.
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The Senate parliamentarian has dealt a potentially lethal blow to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a massive COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress.
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Nearly one-fifth of all electricity use in California goes to moving and treating water.
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A press event at a grocery store underscores the new reality of Vice President Kamala Harris’ protective bubble.
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For more than a generation, most of the Democrats who served as state attorney general wrestled with their personal opposition to the death penalty, its existence in the law and its popularity among voters.
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As Democrats push forward ambitious legislative plans, Senate filibusters increasingly constrain them. Biden’s legacy may turn on ending that threat.
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The son of “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy has fast become a noisy fixture in the briefing room.
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Law enforcement is on high alert around the U.S. Capitol after intelligence uncovered a ‘possible plot’ by a militia group to storm it again.
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Defense Department report finds Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson made sexual comments, drank alcohol and took sleeping pills on duty as White House doctor.
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Why are many Americans committed to preserving words and images associated with forces bent on preventing fellow citizens from living freely and equally?
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The U.S. House is abruptly finishing its work for the week given the threat of violence at the Capitol by a militia group seeking to storm the building.
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Former President Trump called on his supporters to send their contributions directly to his own committees, bypassing traditional Republican groups.
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The measure would repeal the extraordinary powers they gave Cuomo at the start of the pandemic, limiting his directives to those “necessary to reduce the spread or increase vaccinations.”
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Supreme Court weighs Democrats’ challenge to Republican-sponsored election rules in Arizona. Do the rules discriminate based on race?
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Officials had projected it would be July before the U.S. had shots for all adults, but President Biden said Tuesday that milestone would come in May.
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Ten progressive Senate Democrats asked President Biden to support a plan to send recurring relief checks to Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vernon Jordan, a civil rights activist and former advisor to President Clinton who survived a 1980 assassination attempt, has died at 85.
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The United States and European Union will jointly impose additional sanctions against Russia for poisoning Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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Senate Democratic leaders and President Biden have agreed to more narrowly target which Americans would be eligible for a $1,400 stimulus payment.
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The Senate began debating its version of the $1.9-trillion economic aid bill Thursday, kicking off a multiday process.
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Kamala Harris’ central role in the White House’s first fight with the party’s left, over how hard to push for a higher minimum wage, shows the pitfalls ahead for her.
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The two governors were once lauded for pandemic leadership but now are fighting for political survival.
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Trump and Biden hold radically different views on environmental policy and climate change. Here’s what voters can expect from the next president.
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Supplies and access to COVID-19 vaccines are increasing, but Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to ease safety concerns among Black Americans.
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Vice President Kamala Harris visited a vaccination site at Giant Supermarket in Washington on Thursday with D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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Top organizers have released a “Black mandate” for the Biden administration, putting Kamala Harris under new pressure to deliver.
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VP Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter and newly signed model Ella Emhoff made her runway debut Thursday in a digital-short fashion show for Proenza Schouler.
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The vice president’s high profile, race and gender have made her a target of some of the worst internet smears. The problem is only getting worse.
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