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The state auditor concluded Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration divvied up federal coronavirus relief overly generously to more populous counties.
Critics say Newsom frequently hypes announcements and keeps local government and public officials in the dark about his coronavirus plans.
Celebrating MLK Day days after white supremacists joined a pro-Trump mob at the Washington insurrection, and faced with the limitations of a pandemic, social justice advocates find fear, hope and determination in California’s capital.
All but one of California’s Republican members of Congress voted against President Trump’s impeachment.
President Trump tried to marginalize California. He failed. Now, with Joe Biden and Democrats taking power, no state is more influential in setting a policy agenda.
A security specialist warns that the cost of unemployment fraud in California could be much higher than the $4 billion that was previously reported.
Senate Bill 225 would ban medically unnecessary surgeries on children with atypical genitalia until a child is 6 years old.
The campaign to recall Newsom has the stench of Trumpism, but because there’s serious money behind it we must take it seriously.
Newsom said the governor’s Office of Emergency Services is coordinating the security response with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
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In likening last week’s mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol to the Nazis’ 1938 Night of Broken Glass attack on Jews across Germany and his native Austria, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asserted that “spineless” fellow Republicans were also to blame for the deadly riot.
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Historians will have to decide whether any previous presidential inauguration was fraught with the kind of tension looming over the Jan. 20 ceremony when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take the oath of office.
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The California Democratic Party was criticized for calling the recall effort a “California coup” just days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Labor union SEIU and ride-hail drivers filed a lawsuit challenging Prop. 22, which allows Uber, Lyft and other companies to treat workers as contractors.
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The San Diego district attorney’s office is reclaiming its right to prosecute a number of cases linked to a violent 2019 crime spree that left two men dead.
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How will this deeply divided country put itself back together again?
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Pro-Trump mob violence at the Capitol was a reminder that, without the Constitution’s safeguards, we long ago could have followed other countries into fascist or communist totalitarianism, columnist George Skelton writes.
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Testing operations at Dodger Stadium, the largest coronavirus testing site in the U.S., will end Monday, according to the mayor’s office. Officials hope to eventually vaccinate 12,000 people a day there.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will vaccinate 1 million more residents by Jan. 17, a goal announced amid the state’s lagging vaccination rollout and surging cases of COVID-19.
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The California plan expects a $15.5-billion windfall in tax revenues, the result of pessimistic economic forecasts due to COVID-19, advisors said.
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The task for Kevin Faulconer, San Diego’s ex-mayor, is wooing the president’s backers without alienating others he needs.
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Will California lawmakers extend eviction protections or pass meaningful legislation to increase housing production this year?
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State lawmakers say they’ve been flooded with desperate calls from constituents who don’t understand why their jobless benefits have been cut off by EDD.
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The city’s handling of 520 Mateo, a tower being developed by Carmel Partners, is part of the bribery case against former Councilman Jose Huizar.
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Seven Californian Republicans in Congress voted to challenge the presidential election results from Arizona and Pennsylvania.
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High winds forced a two-day closure of the Disneyland vaccination site, with appointments rescheduled for Thursday.
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On Tuesday in Los Angeles County, those 65 and older began signing up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. But it will take time to inoculate everyone.
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A Covid-19 surge at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has sickened hundreds of longshore workers, a disruption that could stymie the flow of goods - including pandemic supplies - through the nation’s largest port complex. Port and local officials are calling for urgent vaccination of dockworkers.
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Vaccines, aggressive strains and fatigue: California hits 3 million COVID cases and a crossroads.
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Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez injects some Latin pride — and “Let’s Get Loud” — into Biden-Harris inauguration with a familiar passage in Spanish.
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She became the national youth poet laureate at age 16; six years later, she read her poem at Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’ historic swearing-in.
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The national youth poet laureate read her galvanizing poem, ‘The Hill We Climb,’ just after Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president.
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From Jennifer Lopez and Tom Hanks to Lady Gaga and Kerry Washington, see who’s in the lineup for Wednesday’s Biden-Harris inauguration festivities.
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The writer, director and star of ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ drew from years of struggle in New York City to create a triumphant portrait of artistic reinvention and fulfillment.
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Four years of a presidency unlike any other in American history have ended, but don’t expect the changing of the guard to resemble a return to normalcy.
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At a presidential inauguration like no other, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take the oath of office in Washington.
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