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Pinpointing the origin of the virus is key to understanding how to predict, prevent and contain future pandemics.

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Presidents try to control the agenda, but external events often derail the best-laid plans. Biden got a taste of that this week, and turned one potential crisis to his advantage.

Last month, Cal State L.A. announced plans for a graduation ceremony at the Rose Bowl. It was going to have all the classics for the classes of 2020 and 2021: speeches, music and jumbotron close-ups. This week, the school clarified the fine print: no guests, no names read aloud, no walking on the stage. Advertisement While planning much-anticipated commencement ceremonies, many colleges are trying to Students who are the first in their families to graduate from college were hoping to share the experience with relatives. Caps and gowns were ordered, and calendars were marked. One Cal State ...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, as the writer Octavia Butler once mused in a notebook, “forms and shatters, forms and shatters.” This has never been a place with a conventional relationship to its history. Advertisement Where little blue plaques and carefully preserved structures have proliferated elsewhere, L.A.'s official stance on the past has typically been both grander and more opaque — heavily romanticized, carefully edited, booster-ized, whitewashed and perpetually repackaged in service of what...