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Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. I picked Cesar Chavez mostly because he was the only famous Mexican American I could think of, and I felt like his mission to bring dignity and a fair wage to farmworkers — the stuff I’d learned about at school — was something I could easily align myself with. I, too, wanted to make this a better world for my people. that guy) admonishing my school’s MEChA chapter for launching a cam...

Print U.S. military commanders say leaving Afghanistan soon under a Trump-era deal could spark chaos, but there are no easy options. TOP STORIES Two senior U.S. commanders said fighting in Afghanistan will intensify sharply and Taliban militants could threaten major cities unless a Biden administration diplomatic push to end the 20-year conflict yields results in the next two months. The tight time frame is driven by a May 1 deadline to withdraw the remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan, as ...

More than 55,000 Californians have died of COVID-19 in the last year. Their families have struggled to memorialize them as funerals and other gatherings were restricted. The sheer weight of so many lives lost moved Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer to tears multiple times during news briefings. Advertisement Even those of us lucky enough to keep our jobs and our health have paid a price. We saved lives by complying with California’s strict stay-at-home orders and mask m...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles was still under a nightly curfew when members of the L.A. City Council first called for an investigation into the tactics employed by the Los Angeles Police Department during the unrest that erupted after the death of George Floyd. By the end of June, the council had voted unanimously to commission a report examining the LAPD’s crowd control tactics during the protests that do...

Print President Biden sets up a new vaccination timetable and says the goal is to have the U.S. “closer to normal” by the Fourth of July. TOP STORIES Biden’s Independence Day Goal After a grim winter that saw the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 rise past half a million, President Biden sought to foster — and benefit from — a national surge of optimism about the pandemic, the economy and the country’s condition in a White House speech Thursday evening. By May 1, restrictions on who ca...

Print The “new normal” that lies just ahead for Southern California will be anything but business as usual — yet it’s a start. TOP STORIES On the Verge of a ‘New Normal’ Southern California is set to take big steps toward something more closely resembling pre-pandemic life as some economic restrictions that have been in place for months are close to being lifted. Some major changes are possible within days. This newest normal will still be a considerably different world — one mark...

For the record: 9:13 PM, Mar. 10, 2021An item in this newsletter previously misspelled the last name of poet Audre Lorde as Lord. Facing the growing threat of a recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom fought to rekindle faith in his leadership during his third State of State address, delivered Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Advertisement Standing in a glaringly empty ballpark whose tens of thousands of vacant seats nearly matched the number of lives lost to COVID-19 in California, the governor spoke...

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The -- oh, contrary, conservative is about the only thing that the republicans have going for them. >> the gop of old has groan stale and moss covered. >> more background checks, dandy idea mr. president, we should have started with your. were paying for someone to walk the presidents dog. why are we doing that when we cant even get a disabled veteran into the white house for a white house tour. >> given the right to vote, youre going to have to do whats right, but the fact is 11 million people ...