LOS ANGELES — Here is the important thing to understand about Kevin McCarthy: He has risen from college dropout to the highest rungs of political leadership by being the guy everyone liked. You can’t have too many friends, he likes to say. He was the guy with the pool table in the house he shared […]
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“It’s striking,” said Ralph Richard Banks, a law professor at Stanford who has written about race, gender and family patterns. “In some ways they are at the frontier of different aspects of American families and how they’re changing.” Some might say they are reflective of where Americans already are. Today, the number of couples who […]
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Ella: Yeah, I write all emails: “To Mom and Doug.” What was it like when your parents split up? Cole: There was like a period of, I don’t know how many years, when we called ourselves the “Palazzo Crew.” Because when Doug moved out, he moved into this apartment complex called the Palazzo. Ella: It […]
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — As Congress prepared to vote on impeachment for a second time, David Bynum reached out to his former boss — Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader in the House. Mr. Bynum, 38, was a college intern for Mr. McCarthy more than 16 years ago, when Mr. McCarthy was a rising […]
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“Love is the most powerful healing force there is, and the pathway to love is through forgiveness. Forgive yourself first, so that you can forgive others. Free yourself. You deserve to be well. You deserve to heal. You deserve love.” “Six by a foot. Anyway, call me back. Bye.” “I was 24 years old, and […]
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Bracing for the potential of violent protests in the days leading up to the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, state officials are calling up National Guard troops, erecting imposing fencing and shutting down Capitol grounds in response to the F.B.I.’s warning that armed protesters could target the capital cities across the country. A survey by […]
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[Read about the future of the coronavirus, which scientists predict will become a common childhood cold.] About 11.1 million people in the U.S. had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, as of Thursday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a figure that is far short of the 20 […]
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Good morning. After what felt like an almost lightless holiday season and start to the new year, California officials in recent days have pointed to signs that the state’s overwhelming coronavirus surge is at last subsiding — or at least not getting worse. “There are some good things to report,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in […]
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Good morning. The images of a pro-Trump mob overwhelming the Capitol on Jan. 6 have been seared into our minds over the past week. Now, as the country — along with officials in state capitals — braces for the possibility of more violence ahead of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, we’re left struggling with painful […]
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One of the six inmates who used a homemade rope to escape from a jail in California over the weekend was arrested on Tuesday, officials said. Edgar Ventura, 22 of Portland, Ore., was “apprehended without incident” a little after 3 p.m. in Firebaugh, about 30 miles south of the Merced County Downtown Jail, from which […]
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Good morning. Monday was the start of what is likely to be yet another difficult week, as state officials sought to speed up vaccinations amid a continuing tsunami of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations — even if there were faint signs that numbers could be flattening. The state has loosened what leaders have described for weeks […]
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Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming what federal officials said on Monday were the first known apes in the nation to be infected. Zoo officials said on Monday that they believed the gorillas were infected by an asymptomatic staff member who had been following safety […]
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Six men escaped from a jail in Merced County, Calif., using a rope of braided bedsheets, setting off a manhunt throughout the region, the authorities said on Sunday. The men escaped the Merced County Downtown Jail, about 100 miles east of San Jose, on Saturday night using the homemade rope to scale a wall of […]
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Before “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” before the Kardashians, before the idea of living large and unscripted on camera became a TV staple, there was a startling program on public television called “An American Family” with a startling female character named Pat Loud. Ms. Loud was a tan California mother of five. She drank, […]
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The numbers jump off the page. In the first week of this year, Los Angeles County recorded 950 deaths from the coronavirus — four times as many deaths as San Francisco has had during the entire pandemic. As my colleagues and I write in an article about the winter surge, California is having two distinct […]
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I was only a few days into a meandering trip across America, and already I was easing into something of a nighttime routine. Earlier in the day I’d pinpointed a promising campsite in Ozark National Forest. Now, I found myself ascending an isolated forestry road to get to it, my tires crackling over its rough, […]
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The N.C.A.A., confronted with new scrutiny from the Justice Department, on Saturday all but abandoned plans for votes in the coming days that could have allowed student-athletes to profit off their fame, assuredly inflaming a debate that has drawn in governments across the country and convulsed the college sports industry. One of the N.C.A.A.’s most […]
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By nearly every major metric, the spread of the virus is profoundly more dire in Southern California. The San Francisco Bay Area has 4 percent of its intensive care beds still available and the far north of California 25 percent. Southern California reached zero percent weeks ago. Los Angeles County has reported more cases this […]
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Meena Harris, a lawyer and former tech executive, used to make statement T-shirts as a side job. Her most famous read, simply, “Phenomenal Woman.” (Perhaps you saw it on Instagram, worn by celebrities including Serena Williams, Lizzo, Ciara, Viola Davis, Laverne Cox and Eva Longoria.) She also made hats for the “Phenomenal Mother” and sweatshirts […]
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For Miya Ponsetto, a nationally televised interview was an opportunity to apologize, her lawyer said, for falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone — and then tackling him — in the lobby of a SoHo hotel. Instead, Ms. Ponsetto, 22, went off script. She stormed out of the disastrous interview with “CBS This […]
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But the relief may be too late for many. California is buckling under the latest Covid-19 surge, with intensive care units everywhere nearly filled to capacity. Much of the state is under stay-at-home orders, which bans all manners of dining at restaurants. Immigrant- and Black-owned restaurants are especially at risk of closing. A survey by […]
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NewsOne Featured Video In the days following the constant media attention surrounding Miya Ponsetto‘s whereabouts and the fact that she is still walking around as a free woman, the parents of Keyon Harrold Jr., the 14-year-old Black teen she attacked, are speaking out. Jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold and his partner, educator Kat Rodriguez are taking […]
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Photo: Shutterstock A state advisory board in California has recommended that police agencies routinely review the cell phones, computers and social media pages of police officers for racist and otherwise offensive content in an effort to weed out officers who are prone to racial profiling. Imagine that: Cops all over the Golden State getting profiled […]
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Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled a news briefing on Covid-19 “out of an abundance of caution,” calling the chaos “reprehensible and an outright assault to our democracy and Democratic institutions.” “We always knew this responsibility would take us into the night,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco wrote in a letter summoning her colleagues to […]
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Good morning. Not long ago, my colleagues in The New York Times’s Food section reached out to essential workers, to see how they were getting through the pandemic. They heard from every link of the nation’s food supply. One response came from Eric Hodge, a commercial fisherman in Ventura. On the third week of March, […]
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As my colleague J.C. Pan wrote after Prop 22’s passage, the measure “was always the tech giants’ to win.” They ran a public awareness campaign that included putting stickers in support of the measure on people’s groceries, with many of these efforts designed to mislead voters on what exactly Prop 22 did. Because nothing makes […]
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Good morning. “A surge on top of a surge” of the coronavirus is incoming, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned Monday in his first briefing of what’s already shaping up to be an exhausting year. With the holidays over, the governor said, more than 2.4 million Californians have been infected, some 27,000 are dead, hospitals are overwhelmed […]
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Seven people working on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” which was being shot at an NBC Universal stage in Studio City, Calif., tested positive for the coronavirus this fall. So did nine people working on the Netflix series “Colin in Black & White” in Gardena. And the Los Angeles County Public Health Department reported that a […]
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Good morning. A slate of new laws that went into effect on Jan. 1 reflect the trials of the previous year, when wildfires, the pandemic and criminal justice reform were top of mind for many Californians. Of the hundreds of bills that were signed into law, many won’t be enacted until later this year. Starting […]
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Nine people — including seven who were described by the authorities as juveniles — were killed in a fiery head-on crash between an S.U.V. and a pickup truck in Fresno County, Calif., on Friday, the California Highway Patrol said. The authorities have not released the names of the victims, and the Highway Patrol said it […]
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Prohibition in the United States, a short-lived experiment that began 100 years ago, popularized the speakeasy: an illicit establishment designed to sell alcoholic beverages during the years they were legally banned. Now, people are developing clandestine social clubs all over again — and even styling their parties after the era of speakeasies. That’s true even […]
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