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President-elect Joe Biden’s Goldilocks Cabinet picks underscore his deftness at hugging the center in politics and policy, as he tries to avoid the bitter partisanship that has hobbled recent presidents.
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By approving the transition to President-elect Joe Biden, President Trump effectively surrendered his efforts to overturn the election results. What made him wave the white flag?
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A review of Biden’s plans so far suggests that among his priorities will be tackling COVID-19, rolling back Trump actions, expanding on Obama initiatives.
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Declaring ‘America is back,’ President-elect Joe Biden introduced selections for his national security team Tuesday.
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Opposition in white, Latino and Asian communities and tepid support among younger Black Californians defeated a ballot measure to restore affirmative action.
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All those warnings from public health officials begging Americans to limit gatherings this holiday season amid a surge in coronavirus cases aren’t stopping the White House from planning a host of festivities and holiday parties in the midst of a pandemic.
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President Trump authorizes start of formal transition as Joe Biden makes several historic picks for key posts, shaping a Cabinet that is notably diverse and brings back many Obama-era insiders.
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Feinstein, 87, is the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and was in line to become its first female chair if Democrats take control of the Senate.
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Michigan election officials certify Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state despite Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election.
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President-elect Joe Biden would choose the first woman and a seasoned central banker for the nation’s top economic policy job.
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Biden plans to nominate the first woman to lead the intelligence community and John Kerry as policy advisor on climate change.
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Biden picks California attorney Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security department. He would be the first Latino to hold the post.
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How might the broad perception that Joe Biden, at 78, will choose to be a one-term president hobble his effectiveness? Should he perhaps deny it?
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Tobacco industry submits signatures on California referendum to block ban on flavored products sales
Tobacco industry submits signatures on California referendum to block ban on flavored products sales
The tobacco industry is turning in signatures for a referendum on the new law banning the sale of flavored tobacco sales effective Jan. 1.
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Inmates, including some on death row, are receiving unemployment benefits in what D.A.s call ‘the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.’
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A politician like Newsom who preaches shared sacrifice should know better than to flout his own words on the pandemic.
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During a midday news conference from his Fair Oaks home, Newsom said that everyone in his family has tested negative for the virus.
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California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control overstepped its power when it adopted a regulation allowing billboards to advertise pot along freeways, a judge rules.
Pennsylvania’s governor says Joe Biden has been certified the winner of the state’s presidential vote, despite the Trump campaign’s legal challenges.
To pretend that there is anything approaching moral equivalency between Joe Biden and Donald Trump represents an appalling failure to exercise ethical judgment.
With Georgia’s GOP feuding since Joe Biden won there, a question looms: Can it unite to help two senators win runoffs that will decide which party runs the Senate?
The Trump campaign’s legal team is distancing itself from conservative attorney Sidney Powell, a purveyor of unfounded voting conspiracy theories.
In Sacramento, Gov. Gavin Newsom is bogged down fighting the surging pandemic and angering lots of voters no matter what he does.
James Madison was right. The electoral college is a shoddy piece of work that keeps coming back to haunt us.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania says he won’t stop officials from certifying election results that show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 81,000 votes.
Facebook and Twitter could ban a civilian Trump from their platforms — but they probably won’t
Georgia’s top elections official, Brad Raffensperger, certified results showing Joe Biden won his state’s presidential vote after a hand tally.
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Next year’s Congress will feature at least 51 women of color – more than ever before.
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Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has announced a full hand recount of the presidential race.
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President Trump moved quickly to fire the defense secretary he derided as “Yesper” after Joe Biden declared victory in the 2020 election.
Politics and the Pandemic
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Huntington Beach has always been conservative, but the governor, masks rules and a new coronavirus curfew have fueled all-out rage.
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The governor’s office said the family learned about the potential exposure to the coronavirus Friday and was tested Sunday morning. Their results came back negative.
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Georgia’s Sen. Kelly Loeffler took three coronavirus tests on Friday, a day when she campaigned with Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. David Perdue.
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No one in the Newsom family has tested positive for coronavirus, said the governor’s communications director, Nathan Click.
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The order prohibits most nonessential activity outside the home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in counties in the strictest tier of the state’s reopening road map. It begins Saturday.
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The new statewide policy by Cal/OSHA aims to protect workers as the pandemic surges, but concerns over enforcement remain.
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The state’s $26-billion tax windfall is less a story of some kind of surprise jackpot and more a cautionary tale of how early doomsday predictions were way off.
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But City Council members, worried about fossil fuel industry lawsuits, might not go for it.
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Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein posted on Twitter to ‘out’ 21 Republican senators who he says have privately expressed contempt for President Trump.
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Dinkins served only one term before his defeat against Rudolph W. Giuliani, leaving behind a complicated legacy.
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General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration’s legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards.
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Joe Biden reportedly will name Blinken, his longtime advisor, as secretary of State as he sets out to assemble a Cabinet even though President Trump refuses to concede.
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Joe Biden is expected to announce some choices for his Cabinet and states will certify results even as Trump’s fight to reverse them enters a third week.
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President Trump’s plan to abandon Afghanistan — again — risks turning a disaster into a catastrophe.
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Joe Biden busily prepares to be president, projecting the normalcy he promised, while President Trump fights to keep the job even as he has stopped doing the work.
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President Trump’s legal team says his campaign has requested an official recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race using safeguards including signature matching.
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The party used the boxes to collect ballots in some counties with closely contested U.S. House races. It’s legal in California to collect completed ballots and turn them in on behalf of voters. But state law says only county election officials are allowed to deploy ballot drop boxes.
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Only a few people really know who will end up serving in President Biden’s administration — and they aren’t saying.
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President Trump again pushed false election fraud claims Friday while President-elect Joe Biden met with Democratic leaders in Congress.
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Alice Huffman, 84, cited health issues in her resignation letter to the executive board of the California Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP. She has held the post since 1999 and will step down Dec. 1.
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By approving the transition to President-elect Joe Biden, President Trump effectively surrendered his efforts to overturn the election results. What made him wave the white flag?
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President-elect Joe Biden’s Goldilocks Cabinet picks underscore his deftness at hugging the center in politics and policy, as he tries to avoid the bitter partisanship that has hobbled recent presidents.
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A review of Biden’s plans so far suggests that among his priorities will be tackling COVID-19, rolling back Trump actions, expanding on Obama initiatives.
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Biden picks California attorney Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security department. He would be the first Latino to hold the post.
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Opposition in white, Latino and Asian communities and tepid support among younger Black Californians defeated a ballot measure to restore affirmative action.
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President Trump’s campaign has filed plenty of lawsuits in six states as he tries to upend an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Election officials overseeing the recount of votes in Wisconsin’s largest county say observers for President Trump’s campaign are unduly slowing the process.
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It shouldn’t surprise anyone: What moved Latino voters in 2020 was grassroots organizing on local issues and needs, not narrow partisan agendas.
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As President Trump continues to push falsehoods about the election he lost, his legal team has failed to gain any traction in court for its baseless claims of widespread fraud. Here’s a look at where challenges stand in six key states.
