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President Biden attends European Union summit, part of a trip to reassure allies after Trump’s isolationist policies.
With a wink and a nod, Mike Nearman invited the Dec. 21 attack. The bipartisan vote for his expulsion was 59-1.
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Democrats are set to consider two voting-rights bills: the sweeping For the People Act and the narrower John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
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The Biden administration is rushing to welcome a new Israeli government after Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster, not because they will agree on policies but because it is a break from turmoil surrounding the former prime minister.
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Supreme Court says crack cocaine sentencing reforms don’t help all of those convicted for three or more drug crimes.
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The Justice Department’s top national security official is resigning after revelations the department secretly seized records from Democrats and media members.
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Biden and Putin agree the nations’ relationship is at a low point before their summit. Trump sends the ex-KGB chief ‘warmest regards.’
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President Biden builds bridges at NATO summit, after Trump belittled alliance. Allies support his upcoming meeting with Russia’s Putin, he says.
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President Biden and other G-7 leaders condemn forced labor and call out China and others for human rights abuses.
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Republican-controlled state legislatures are still passing new laws to make it harder to cast a ballot. Congress needs to enter the fray.
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Newly released data show that migrants were stopped 180,034 times across the southern border in May, nearly eight times the total a year ago.
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The state Constitution requires lawmakers to pass a budget by June 15 or see their pay docked. But what they passed on Monday isn’t the final product.
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The drives to recall the governor, the L.A. County district attorney and other officials are anything but grass-roots efforts.
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Los Angeles will be the biggest beneficiary of the money, which was proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to help cannabis businesses acquire permanent licenses.
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Judge Roger Benitez’s opinion, although it began with a nutty comparison of a Swiss Army knife to an AR-15, may be on solid ground concerning a basic point, columnist George Skelton writes.
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Call it universal basic capital: Every Californian gets an ownership share in the wealth created here.
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President Biden, in his aviators, and First Lady Jill Biden meet with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. Biden first met the monarch as a senator.
Group of 7 leaders discuss countering Chinese influence in developing countries. Biden pushes for condemnation of China’s use of forced labor.
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would take an aggressive stance against voting restrictions passed by Republican legislatures.
Justice Dept.'s internal watchdog will investigate secret subpoenas to obtain records on Adam Schiff and others during Trump administration.
Biden and allied leaders open the three-day Group of 7 summit in England focusing on how to end the COVID-19 pandemic and tackle climate change.
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Politics and the Pandemic
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Understanding the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a linchpin for future pandemic prevention.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the pandemic’s start, villainized by the right as a bureaucrat seeking to undermine Trump.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, facing a recall election, draws the names of the first winners of California’s COVID-19 vaccine lottery in an upbeat event.
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The White House will send 75% of excess U.S. COVID-19 vaccine doses to the U.N.-backed COVAX global sharing program.
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Free beer is the latest incentive endorsed by the White House to persuade Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
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Assembly Bill 650 by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Rolling Hills Estates) would award $10,000 bonuses to California healthcare workers. The pay would be spread out in hopes that the cash would entice healthcare workers to remain in their job.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to loosen pandemic restrictions comes with little short-term political risk. But other political challenges loom large in June.
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Two policy experts assess Vice President Kamala Harris’ Latin American trip and the questions it raises about Harris’ strategy for reducing Central Americans’ migration to the U.S.
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The COVID-19 changes promised to take effect in California on June 15 are the beginning, not the end, of the effort to return to normality.
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The right-wing GOP firebrand says she is sorry for her comments comparing the required wearing of masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Delegations from Russia and the U.S. involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran held talks ahead of a summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin.
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Democrats are committed to passing legislation this year to curb prescription drug prices.
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Nevada’s governor has signed a law making it the first state to vote in the 2024 presidential primary contests, ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Contrasting inaugural vice presidential trips — Joe Biden’s to Europe in 2009 and Kamala Harris’ to Latin America — show their different roles in the No. 2 job.
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The Justice Department under Trump seized data from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Committee as part of a leaks investigation.
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A bipartisan group of senators is considering an infrastructure deal with $579 billion in new spending as part of a $1-trillion total package.
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Kerry Washington, John Legend and Leonardo DiCaprio are among the stars who support the voting bill, even if Sen. Joe Manchin says he’s voting no.
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A former police chief and yoga instructor is indicted along with five other Southern California men for their alleged roles in the Capitol riot.
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An analysis projects the recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom will cost $215 million, an amount that’s likely to grow as more candidates emerge.
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Citing the threat to public safety, California appeals a federal judge’s ruling that declared the state’s ban on assault weapons unconstitutional.
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Willing to reconsider, Republican Mayor Jerry Dyer of Fresno urges others to be less dug in to partisanship.
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With a wink and a nod, Mike Nearman invited the Dec. 21 attack. The bipartisan vote for his expulsion was 59-1.
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Biden and Putin agree the nations’ relationship is at a low point before their summit. Trump sends the ex-KGB chief ‘warmest regards.’
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Democrats are set to consider two voting-rights bills: the sweeping For the People Act and the narrower John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
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Reports of the state’s decline and fall are a cyclical staple. Blame it on envy and partisanship
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Supreme Court says crack cocaine sentencing reforms don’t help all of those convicted for three or more drug crimes.
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Vice President Harris’ trip to Guatemala and Mexico underscored challenges and contradictions in Biden bid to address root causes of migration to U.S.
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She told Central American migrants ‘do not come.’ But she failed to mention the U.S. role in fueling the terror and corruption they are fleeing.
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Kamala Harris received an onslaught of backlash after she told would-be migrants ‘do not come’ to the U.S. But the message is no different from past Democratic administrations.
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Harris speaks after meeting on migration with Guatemalan president on her first foreign trip as vice president. She was to continue to Mexico City later Monday.
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A technical problem that involved “no immediate safety issue” forced Harris’ plane to return to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about 30 minutes after she had left Sunday on a trip to Guatemala and Mexico.
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