A Look Back at a Roller Coaster of a Year in L.A..
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A Look Back at a Roller Coaster of a Year in L.A. Politics
In 2020, the halls of power were dominated by big fights, big surprises, and the mother of all federal investigations
The biggest national political story of 2020 was Joe Biden’s defeat of Donald Trump. The saga of news vs. fake news, mail-in balloting, lengthy counts, recounts, and the president’s myriad thwarted legal maneuvers will end up in the history books.
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Trump pardons spark outrage
19 US President Donald Trump was accused of fostering corruption by extending pardons to convicted political supporters.
WASHINGTON - An angry backlash Wednesday met US President Donald Trump s pardons of corrupt Republican congressmen and security guards convicted of killing 14 civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre.
Following the pattern of earlier announcements, Trump extended executive clemency Monday to people who showed strong political support for him, and former soldiers and law enforcement officials convicted of murder in on-the-job shootings.
Iraqis expressed outrage and sadness after Trump delivered pardons for the four Blackwater security contractors who were convicted of murder and manslaughter six years ago for the Nisur Square massacre.
CA Covid-19 Update: California’s Vaccine Allocation Cut By Feds As State Hits Daily Death Record & Cases Continue To Surge – Update Deadline 12/18/2020
UPDATE, 4:45 PM: The expression that “it’s always darkest before the dawn,” just took on an even more ominous timbre for California’s fight against the deep wounds of the coronavirus.
As deaths from Covid-19 hit a horrible all-time high in the ravaged Golden State and confirmed cases of the disease rise to staggering heights, the promise of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been hobbled, at least for the time being.
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“Earlier this week, we talked about a projected allocation of 393,000 which was based on what the federal government had communicated to us,” Erin Mellon of Governor Gavin Newsom’s office told Deadline Thursday. “The federal government delayed the number of Pfizer vaccines that California will receive in the next shipment – many states received new estimated shipment amounts,