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Tuesday, July 20. 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. Olympic athletes are used to constant medical testing. Normally, those tests are looking for evidence that a competitor has used a forbidden performance-enhancing substance. At the Tokyo Olympics, the more nerve-racking tests are the ones to det...

How do you say “No Olympics” in Japanese? The Summer Games are slated to begin on July 23 in Tokyo, and the host country is not having it. Polls show that 60%-70% of the Japanese public wants the event canceled. The world should listen and call off the Games, sports columnist Dylan Hernández writes. Advertisement In normal times, Japan embraces Olympics-mania. But not this year. Less than 3% of the population has been vaccinated against COVID-19, and the country remains under extended emergency measures because of the spread of new and more contagious coronavirus variants. Against tha...

— Biden’s infrastructure plan aims to reduce exclusionary zoning rules that keep people of color out of many neighborhoods. But are there enough sticks to go with all those carrots — and will the suburbs buy in? — Senate Republicans are signaling that they will try to block — or at least slow down — a Democratic effort to create a 9/11-style commission on the deadly — The New York attorney general’s office said that it is conducting a criminal investigation into former President Trump’s business empire, expanding what had previously been a civil probe. For more news and an...

Print A mother and son separated by the Trump administration more than three years ago were finally reunited. TOP STORIES A Family Reunited at the Border More than three years ago, Bryan Chavez hugged his mother, Sandra Ortiz, inside a U.S. immigration office, terrified that he would never see her again. Chavez went to an immigration facility in California. His mother, who didn’t pass an initial asylum screening, was expelled to Mexico. They were among the earliest family separations during the Trump administration, well before splitting families became publicized U.S. policy. More than a...

Print Minneapolis boarded up ahead of the murder trial of the former police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes just before he died, but community advocates worry the city isn’t prepared. TOP STORIES The former police officer seen kneeling for about nine minutes on George Floyd’s neck Minneapolis has been on edge, protesting, barricading and boarding up. Over the weekend, demonstrators supporting the conviction of former Officer Derek Chauvin gathered in front of the governor’s mansion nearby, chanting, “Prosecute the police!” More protests were planned for M...