Breaking: Xavier Becerra was narrowly confirmed as the Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday on a party-line vote. latimes.com/politics/story…
The Senate voted in favor of Becerra, who will become the first Latino to lead the agency once he’s sworn in.
After Biden campaigned on his bipartisan relationships in the Senate, the White House isn't doing much outreach to Republicans on confirming his nominees.
In March 2020, the Trump administration put into place one of the most controversial and restrictive immigration policies ever implemented at the U.S. border — and in January, President Biden quietly continued it. latimes.com/politics/story…
The Biden administration says the Trump-era policy known as Title 42, which relies on a 1944 public health statute to indefinitely close the border to “non-essential” travel, remains necessary to limit the spread of COVID-19. latimes.com/politics/story…
Since March 2020, U.S. border officials have claimed unchecked authority to summarily expel from the U.S. hundreds of thousands of immigrants who didn’t have prior permission to enter, without due process or access to asylum — let alone COVID-19 testing. latimes.com/politics/story…
“Singleton knew that to be Black in America is to live at the end of a sharp reality: the proximity of our dreaming and our death were ever entwined,” writes @nonlinearnotes
“The great misconception about Singleton’s singular body of work...was that his movies were hard and unflinching in their portrayal of Black Los Angeles, which they were, but really, in their marrow, what they are about is our fundamental human enterprise: the grace of feeling.”
Before ‘Boyz n the Hood,’ “I didn’t yet understand how sorrow and loss and rage open the soul, how those sensations, pinballing off one another, give way to something transcendent, something essential to our survival, to our becoming.” - @nonlinearnotes latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
About 30 volunteers showed up on a recent Saturday afternoon to accompany pedestrians to their destinations in Oakland’s Chinatown after a spate of attacks on elderly Asian Americans.
Even before a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, Chinatown was on edge, its cafes and stores decimated by the pandemic, its residents in constant fear. latimes.com/california/sto…
The vulnerability of the victims, combined with a national rise in anti-Asian hate crimes fueled in part by the coronavirus’ Chinese origins, had many people asking: What can I do to help? latimes.com/california/sto…
Although hospital chaplains are primarily tasked with supporting the sick and their loved ones, the pandemic has thrust them into caring for the caregivers.
Kelley said she is devoting more time than ever to serving burned-out healthcare workers. latimes.com/california/sto…
The holiday surge in coronavirus cases — and the ensuing record-high hospitalizations and deaths — especially weakened morale, she said. latimes.com/california/sto…
One year ago, Gov. Newsom walked into an office where his advisors had assembled.
His administration’s models predicted a catastrophic outcome if the virus spread unabated: More than half of the state’s population could become infected in months. latimes.com/california/sto…
Reports of patients flocking to hospitals were streaming in from New York, along with warning signs of a worst-case scenario unless Newsom took action. And soon.
Hours later, Newsom would stand before news cameras and announce the most consequential government action in California modern history: All 40 million residents were ordered to shelter in place until further notice. latimes.com/california/ywo…
Alexi McCammond, named the new editor in chief of Teen Vogue earlier this month, has parted ways with publisher Condé Nast amid fallout from tweets she posted a decade ago.
McCammond, who used anti-Asian and homophobic terms in the tweets, made the announcement in a statement Thursday. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about," she wrote. “I should not have tweeted what I did."