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A rocky vaccine rollout. Gov. Gavin Newsom set an ambitious target Friday of vaccinating another 1 million people over the next nine days but offered few new details. As of Monday, only about 35% of California’s COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered, a rate he acknowledged when a refrigerator failed and left doses to thaw — giving an unintentional road map for how mass inoculation could work. Advertisement Vaccines are met with doubt. An informal survey of Los Angeles Police Department employees found significant skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines, with More aid on the way. Gov. ...

Twelve days. In the scripted video he released on Thursday afternoon, President Trump promised this final week and a half of his administration would now be the occasion for a “smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power.” In the hours after that much-overdue pledge, some long-delayed moves toward a transition occurred: Administration officials, for example, sent a notice to all political appointees telling them they must resign as of Jan. 20, a routine step that Trump had blocked since November’s election. Whether Trump will stick to his words remains a question. In the past, he ...

'I'm in a roomful of people panicked that I might inadvertently give away their location' Sarah D. Wire © (Rep. Norma Torres) Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) took this photo of Times staff writer Sarah Wire in the House gallery during Wednesday's riots and tweeted to let her bosses know she was safe. (Rep. Norma Torres) I love to be in the House or Senate chambers on big days. There’s just something about being in the room where it happens. It's more than just a news story. It's history, and a privilege to tell people about it. Even amid a pandemic — I have an 18-month-old...

President Trump and his supporters are still circulating baseless conspiracy theories about President-elect Joe Biden’s win. A group of Republican officials is still trying to intervene as the results are recorded. And we’re still waiting for results in a key race with dozens of absentee ballots ahead, this time in Georgia. The sense of déjà vu has been even stronger in that state, where voters relived the runup to the 2020 election, in which neither of the state’s Republican senators managed to clear the 50% threshold needed to win. For weeks since, Republican Sens. David Perdue an...

Three months after Richard M. Nixon became the first president to resign his office, Democrats netted 49 new House seats in the November 1974 congressional elections, a tidal wave that opened the way for a burst of post-Watergate reforms. New limits on campaign contributions, the Ethics in Government Act, the Presidential Records Act, the creation of a legal framework for special prosecutors — all these and more burst out of Congress between 1974 and 1978. Not all those laws succeeded, but many of their provisions continue to set limits on elected officials more than four decades later. De...