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Pinpointing the origin of the virus is key to understanding how to predict, prevent and contain future pandemics.

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Presidents try to control the agenda, but external events often derail the best-laid plans. Biden got a taste of that this week, and turned one potential crisis to his advantage.

Last month, Cal State L.A. announced plans for a graduation ceremony at the Rose Bowl. It was going to have all the classics for the classes of 2020 and 2021: speeches, music and jumbotron close-ups. This week, the school clarified the fine print: no guests, no names read aloud, no walking on the stage. Advertisement While planning much-anticipated commencement ceremonies, many colleges are trying to Students who are the first in their families to graduate from college were hoping to share t...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, as the writer Octavia Butler once mused in a notebook, “forms and shatters, forms and shatters.” This has never been a place with a conventional relationship to its history. Advertisement Where little blue plaques and carefully preserved structures have proliferated elsewhere, L.A.s official stance on the past has typically been both grander and more opaque — heavily roma...

Print More than a year after schools transitioned to virtual instruction because of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of California’s public and charter schools are allowed to return to in-person instruction. Each district has different rules for the return to class and a different timeline for doing so. It’s a confusing time for many parents and students who may wonder whether to return to class at all while the different speeds of reopening increase inequities along language, race and...

The phased reopening of classrooms in the nation's second-largest school district began Tuesday, with some of the youngest elementary school students making their return to L.A. public schools.

Thursday, April 8. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. It’s been a long, frustrating year for children and parents in Los Angeles, where public school classrooms have been closed since last March. I...

Melody Petersen, and it’s Monday, April 5. In ordinary times, I write about healthcare and business. But these aren’t ordinary times, and for the last year, I’ve written mostly about the pandemic. Now I’ll be writing this newsletter for the next couple of weeks. Let’s get started with a look at what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plu...

Wednesday, Feb. 24. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The pandemic has turned living rooms into classrooms and parents into de facto teaching assistants. But for parents who can’t work at home, fi...