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Commentary: Republicans who backed DeVos have problems with Biden’s DHHS pick? Please Elections matter, or so the saying goes. But the debate over some of the current president’s nominees makes you wonder just how true that is. By Jon HealeyLos Angeles Times Share Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is a thoughtful guy, and while he’s a reliable Republican vote on the vast majority of issues that come before the Senate, he’s independent enough to have voted to convict former President Donald Trump at Trump’s second impeachment trial (but not the first one). Xavier Becerra does not have exp...

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. One year ago today, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency, after which then-President Trump assured Americans that it would have a “very good ending for us.” Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion. It’s no secret that those of us in journalism have taken our lumps from the public during the Trump presidency, some of them more dizzying than others. The pace of aggressively disagreeable comments picked up around the Nov. 3 election and, for me at least, peake...

Biden’s efforts give healthcare a shot in the arm 30 Jan 2021 Tribune News Service President Joe Biden took several steps to undo some of the damage President Donald Trump inflicted on the health insurance programme created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, and that’s a good thing. Trump needlessly undermined the state exchanges that made coverage available and affordable to millions of lower-income Americans who don’t have access to an employer’s health plan. But make no mistake, Biden’s actions won’t do much to improve the US health care system as a whole. The problem...

After rebounding strongly in the summer, the economy appears to be going cold as we wait for the long COVID-19 nightmare to end.