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Washington responded with calm determination as former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.
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The House voted 216 to 210 to reject a Republican effort to censure Los Angeles Rep. Maxine Waters for her comments to protesters seeking justice for George Floyd.
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Biden increases the number of temporary seasonal workers that employers can hire this year as the U.S. economy recovers from the pandemic.
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Congress had high hopes that the country’s shock at the death of George Floyd would lead to policing reform, but it did not. Where do things stand now?
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The Justice Department faces challenges in seeking to prosecute Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes because he stayed outside the building.
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The Biden administration is privately weighing how to handle the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, including considering whether President Joe Biden should address the nation.
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After promising to abstain, a handful of corporations gave at least $120,000 to politicians who refused to certify election results and political committees that back them.
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House Republicans threaten to take action after Los Angeles Rep. Maxine Waters encourages protesters awaiting a verdict in the Derek Chauvin case.
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A federal judge backed the Justice Department’s most aggressive effort to jail those accused of participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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More than 400,000 immigrants who have lived in the United States under Temporary Protected Status could be denied green cards.
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Solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars are not enough to beat climate change. California is also looking at giant carbon-sucking vacuums.
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The former L.A. mayor said, “68 is the new 38.” Better would be a candidate for governor who is actually 38.
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The proposals reflect the shift that has taken place at City Hall since last year, when Angelenos filled the streets to protest police brutality and racial inequality.
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Senate Bill 93 requires employers in hospitality and business services industries to offer new positions for similar work to employees laid off during the pandemic.
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The former L.A. mayor has criticized the recall effort targeting his 2018 gubernatorial foe, Gavin Newsom. But he hasn’t publicly ruled out a run.
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A key legislative committee approves bills to help overhaul the EDD’s operations as the agency apologizes for another error that interrupted payments.
In Depth
Vice President Kamala Harris planned two stops in North Carolina to promote the multitrillion-dollar Biden agenda at a college and a buses plant.
Susan Page’s ‘Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power’ unearths newsy nuggets and candid thoughts from the country’s most powerful woman.
The battle for Afghanistan began long before American troops arrived in 2001, and won’t end when the last U.S. soldier is gone.
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland rescinded Friday restrictions on Justice Department’s use of consent decrees to force police departments to reform.
The leaders’ talks Friday focused on economic and security threats from China, as well as climate change and deterring nuclear-armed North Korea.
Politics and the Pandemic
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. will likely move to resume Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine this week after reports of six rare blood clot cases.
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It’s unlikely that another coronavirus surge would overwhelm California’s hospital system, experts say
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A California bill would create BankCal, offering free financial services to the “unbanked” and “underbanked,” whose low wages often are eaten up by high fees
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political survival hinges on how Californians feel about their lives and their governor in the fall when they will probably cast their ballots. And already, voters are more confident about the future — and Newsom — as vaccinations increase in the state and more people begin to envision a return to normal life.
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The First Lady visited a landmark of the United Farm Workers to highlight vaccinations of field laborers on César Chávez Day.
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The White House says it is dedicating another $10 billion to try to drive up vaccination rates in low-income, minority and rural enclaves.
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This is the week political watchers expect enough validated voter signatures to force a recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Biden says his proposals are bipartisan because voters of both parties support them. But do they? The evidence is mixed.
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There’s a growing movement in Los Angeles and across the country calling for cities designed for people, not cars.
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In the post-Trump internet, online fandoms offer political figures a new kind of support with risks and rewards.
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President Biden says he is ‘praying the verdict is the right verdict’ in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
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Mondale, known as Fritz, a pioneering vice president and a nimble ambassador to Japan, lost to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential race.
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The Biden administration wants federal employees to drop use of the word ‘alien’ to refer to noncitizens and migrants in official communications.
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More than 111 million Americans voted before election day in 2020. Republicans want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
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The D.C. medical examiner’s office ruled Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick had a stroke and died from natural causes after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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The former Georgia gubernatorial candidate adopts a carefully balanced response to new laws that critics call a GOP attempt to deter voters of color.
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Keep warheads mobile, at sea or in the air, not in underground silos whose location hasn’t changed in decades.
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Video of Chicago police officer shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo fuels peaceful protests.
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Many Republicans with national ambitions are openly laying the groundwork for presidential campaigns as Trump continues to mull his own plans.
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After Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright and Caron Nazario, I’d like to think something has changed. But the many calls for police reform sound just as hollow.
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Joel Greenberg faces charges in a sex-trafficking inquiry. His friend, Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, is being investigated.
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The State Department’s internal watchdog has concluded that former Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and his wife violated federal ethics rules.
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Washington responded with calm determination as former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.
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More than 400,000 immigrants who have lived in the United States under Temporary Protected Status could be denied green cards.
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Solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars are not enough to beat climate change. California is also looking at giant carbon-sucking vacuums.
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Congress had high hopes that the country’s shock at the death of George Floyd would lead to policing reform, but it did not. Where do things stand now?
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House Republicans threaten to take action after Los Angeles Rep. Maxine Waters encourages protesters awaiting a verdict in the Derek Chauvin case.
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Corruption underscores the challenge Harris confronts in working with leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to stem migration to the U.S.
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Members of the #KHive respond with venom when they think someone has dismissed or insulted the vice president.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, with Gov. Gavin Newsom, visited a water plant in Oakland on Monday to promote the administration’s infrastructure plan.
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After more than two months of living in temporary housing, Vice President Kamala Harris will soon move into her official residence in Washington.
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Kamala Harris will make a third trip home to California since taking office, the first on official business: selling the Biden infrastructure plan.
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