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President Joe Biden speaks during the Quad summit in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. Seated clockwise from left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Column: A new military alliance, a summit meeting: The U.S.-China face-off is looking like the Cold War

The Biden administration is building a Cold War-style web of alliances to contain China. Will China strike back?

Biden calls Haitian migrant crisis ‘an embarrassment.’ Advocates say racism at root
Biden and Harris hold their own immigration policies at arm’s length

Kamala Harris says footage of Border Patrol evokes images of slavery
Biden denounces ‘horrible’ treatment of Haitian migrants at border
Biden hails booster shots as next level in pandemic protection
After police reform talks fail, Karen Bass discusses what’s next, and her message to George Floyd’s family
Swimming against the tide: GOP fights to make inroads among millennial and Gen Z voters
House Democrats, galvanized by Texas ban, vote to legalize abortion nationwide
Arizona Republicans ready to show results of partisan 2020 recount review

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LA Times Today: Analysis: Roe v. Wade after Texas law clears Supreme Court
Full coverage: 2022 Los Angeles mayor’s race

California Politics

At a grim convention, California GOP seeks to regroup after bruising recall defeat
Momentous mayor’s race will be a pitched battle over how to fix L.A.'s ills
Column: ‘We may lose this.’ Despair over gentrification reaches new depths in South L.A.
L.A. teachers union sidesteps vote over Israel-Palestinian conflict
Column: After a $500,000 fine, he spent nearly four times as much trying to recall the local D.A.

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Electric cars, climate credit schemes and a ‘Hydrogen Highway’: How California exports its ideas and policies across the U.S. and world.

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Vice President Kamala Harris talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the balcony of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Kamala Harris presses India’s Modi gently on human rights in historic meeting

Vice President Kamala Harris invoked familial ties to India as she pressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on human rights in a departure from the Trump administration.

MORENO VALLEY, CA - SEPTEMBER 22, 2021: Nurses wait in the parking lot under tents for residents to arrive for vaccinations, but they only administered 31 shots in 5 hours at this vaccination site at Quinn Community Outreach on September 22, 2021 in Moreno Valley, California. A Los Angeles Times analysis found counties in the Inland Empire had a higher rate of hospitalizations this past summer than any other Southern California county.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Federal officials shift vaccine distribution over fears doses will expire

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 14: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki introduces Pop music star and Disney actress Olivia Rodrigo to reporters at the beginning of the daily news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Rodrigo is partnering with the White House to promote COVID-19 vaccination outreach to her young fans. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden is the oldest president in American history. Here’s how he aims to bridge a canyon-sized generation gap

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 in Washington, in her ceremonial office on the White House complex. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris to meet with Modi in ‘coming-of-age’ moment for Indian diaspora

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference in Washington. The strengthening U.S. economy is edging closer to achieving the Federal Reserve's goals for job growth and inflation, Chair Jerome Powell said in a speech in which he offered few clues to a key question overhanging the economy: When will the Fed begin to withdraw its extraordinary economic support? (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Despite Delta variant slowing growth, Federal Reserve signals plans to start reversing some stimulus programs

Politics and the Pandemic

U.S. pledges to double vaccine donations to boost global inoculation
Column: Drugmakers see disaster in Medicare negotiating prices. Don’t listen to them
Biden’s vaccine rules ignite angry GOP opposition
‘Our patience is wearing thin’: Biden extends vaccine mandates as COVID toll rises
New vaccine mandates falter in California Legislature as protesters gather in Sacramento
U.S. hiring slows sharply, casting long shadow on recovery from pandemic

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