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WASHINGTON — Washington responded with calm determination as former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges of murdering George Floyd, ending a trial that has put the nation on edge as it confronts the realities of racial injustice and police violence. As jurors delivered their verdict following three weeks of emotionally charged testimony in Minneapolis, that city was just one of many nationwide on a high state of alert. Washington was bracing for the scale of mass protest that followed Floyd’s murder last year, upending the city, jolting national politics and ...

In December, Covid-19 infections in prisons in the United States hit a record 25,000 in one week. Among correctional staff that month, there were an additional 5,000 new infections a week, leading to spread in surrounding communities. According to a New York Times database, collectively, more than 580,000 people at correctional institutions have been infected. The prisoner death toll has now surpassed 2,000. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Eleven months into the pandemic, the U.S. prison system has not gotten control of its rising...

This is the Feb. 5, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up here to get it in your inbox three times a week. Freshman members of the minority party in the House seldom get much attention, so if notoriety is the goal, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has had a heck of a week. Yes, she was roundly denounced by leading senators of her own party, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who likened her to a “cancer on the Republican party” and denounced her “loony lies and conspiracy theories.” And, yes, House Republ...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. That’s especially true now. Republicans have gone from controlling the White House and both houses of Congress to having no control in just four years, making Trump the first Republican to suffer so thorough a reversal since Herbert Hoover in the Great Depression. But given the Democrats’ slender majorities in Congress and the usual pattern of the president’s party losing ground in the first midterm election, Republicans have reason to hope that they can regain the majority in one, ...

Braced for clashes, Washington is mostly empty and quiet for Biden inauguration [Los Angeles Times] Determined not to repeat the disastrous security failures that permitted a pro-Trump mob to storm and occupy the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, federal authorities transformed Washington on the day of President Biden’s inauguration into a militarized territory patrolled by more than 25,000 troops and police officers. This time, they were prepared for the worst. But the worst stayed home. The inauguration’s celebratory events at the White House and the Capitol failed to attract more than ...