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President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, is quickly emerging as a political lightning rod.
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Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin has been certified following a partial recount that added slightly to his 20,600-vote margin over President Trump.
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Biden is only the second Democrat in 70 years to win Arizona. In the final tally, he won by 10,457 votes, 0.3% of the nearly 3.4 million ballots cast.
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The justices debate only one aspect of the broader plan, in which Trump aimed to reduce California’s number of seats in Congress.
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President-elect Joe Biden has placed a premium on diversity among his Cabinet nominees and key advisors, aiming for a few firsts in his economic team.
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Gone are Democratic plans to pass Medicare for all and the Green New Deal. In are infrastructure and COVID-19 relief.
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President-elect Joe Biden suffered hairline fractures in his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday.
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President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.
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Pressing unproved fraud claims, Trump acknowledges in first post-vote interview that legal effort has foundered.
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Wisconsin has finished its recount of votes cast in this month’s presidential election, with only minuscule changes in results. Biden defeated Trump.
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ICE uses physical abuse, solitary confinement and false documents to force Black and African asylum seekers onto ‘death planes,’ The Times has found through interviews and legal documents.
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President Trump spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat.
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The Supreme Court for the first time blocked state COVID-19 restrictions, rejecting limits on how many people may gather in New York houses of worship.
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Republican candidate Mike Garcia holds his hotly contested congressional seat in CA-25. Christy Smith concedes as ballot margins grew on the close race.
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Raymond Chan, a deputy mayor who oversaw economic development for L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2016 and 2017, has been charged with conspiracy, bribery and other crimes.
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The county is still on track to meet its election certification deadline this week, the registrar of voters said.
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Older Democratic appointees on the influential federal appeals courts could step aside when Biden assumes office. But if Republicans hold the Senate, they could block more liberal nominees.
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California state prisons continue to contend with new, growing outbreaks at multiple facilities amid lapses in tracing, testing, and mask-wearing by guards.
Emily the Scrivener gave in. And Ozymandias Trump is in ruins along with his presidency.
Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia carried out a series of well-timed — and lucrative — stock transactions at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An official machine recount of the 5 million votes cast in Georgia’s presidential race is underway at the request of President Trump’s campaign.
Pennsylvania’s governor says Joe Biden has been certified the winner of the state’s presidential vote, despite the Trump campaign’s legal challenges.
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.
President-elect Joe Biden would choose the first woman and a seasoned central banker for the nation’s top economic policy job.
Biden picks California attorney Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security department. He would be the first Latino to hold the post.
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?
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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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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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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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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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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says fighting climate change is a top priority. She also supports a fossil fuel export terminal in Baja California.
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Biden unveils his first Cabinet picks as the Trump administration initiates the formal transition process.
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Dr. Scott Atlas, a science advisor to President Trump who was skeptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post.
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Groups opposed to L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti possibly joining the Biden administration demonstrated outside Garcetti’s residence on Monday for the seventh straight day.
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Will we see the Trump campaign’s screwball attempts to overturn votes in satire? Will loosened drug laws further drive stoner comedies to extinction? We have ideas
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After expecting a massive pandemic-induced deficit and instead getting a projected $26-billion windfall, Sacramento politicians would be wise to sock it away for future years, columnist George Skelton writes.
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Biden steps into the White House leadership vacuum on the coronavirus, resetting the tone in a solemn Thanksgiving address aimed at an anxious nation.
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In the holiday spirit, U.S. families will come together to debate the future of America, and white evangelicals will continue to cast no stone toward Trump.
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President Trump pardons former national security advisor Michael Flynn, rewarding a loyalist who pleaded guilty during the Russia investigation.
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The Trump administration has denied a permit to build a gold and copper mine near the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska.
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Let’s count all the things Trump is doing that will make life difficult for his successor. It’s not pretty.
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Washington’s Wilton Gregory, now the only Black cardinal in the U.S., has grown increasingly outspoken over race matters.
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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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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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President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, is quickly emerging as a political lightning rod.
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Pressing unproved fraud claims, Trump acknowledges in first post-vote interview that legal effort has foundered.
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Gone are Democratic plans to pass Medicare for all and the Green New Deal. In are infrastructure and COVID-19 relief.
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The justices debate only one aspect of the broader plan, in which Trump aimed to reduce California’s number of seats in Congress.
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There will be more women of color sworn in to the 117th U.S. Congress than ever before, with at least 51 women of color elected.
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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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The Trump campaign’s legal team is distancing itself from conservative attorney Sidney Powell, a purveyor of unfounded voting conspiracy theories.
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In Sacramento, Gov. Gavin Newsom is bogged down fighting the surging pandemic and angering lots of voters no matter what he does.
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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.
