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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to open up the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol on December 16, 2020, in Washington, DC. Everybody wants to finish, McConnell said late Tuesday as legislators were wrapping up negotiations for the evening. Everybody wants to get a final agreement as soon as possible. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/TNS)

Congressional leaders close in on coronavirus aid deal

By Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Content Agency
December 16, 2020
In the 2018-19 school year, enrollment dipped slightly among foreign students in California. Above, students from China and Taiwan at the Southwestern Academy in San Marino in 2016.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times/TNS)

California remains the top US destination for foreign students, yet enrollment is slipping

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2019
Actress Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli exit the Boston Federal Court house after a pre-trial hearing with Magistrate Judge Kelley at the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 27, 2019. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

In sentencing California father, key judge in admissions scandal offers insight into future decisions

By Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2019
A special agent with the California Department of Justice walks a student from the Discovery Montessori school to her parents after being on lock-down because a suspect in the multiple shootings of officers in Sacramento and Placer County on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. A suspect armed with a rifle left one Sacramento shefiffs deputy dead, a motorist gravely injured, and two Placer Conty sheriffs deputies wounded in a 30-mile crime spree. (Hector Amezcua/Sacramento Bee/MCT)

5 dead after shooting at elementary school in Northern California

By Frank Shyong, Jaclyn Cosgrove and Sonali Kohli | Los Angeles Times
November 14, 2017
Dick Gregory speaks at the D.C. Full Democracy Freedom Rally and March in Washington, D.C., on October 15, 2011. Gregory, a comedian, activist and author, died on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017.

Dick Gregory, groundbreaking comedian and civil rights activist, dies at 84

By Dennis McLellan | Los Angeles Times
August 20, 2017
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) walks to the senate chamber prior to voting against a Skinny Repeal bill which would repeal The Affordable Care Act on July 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The Republican bill failed 49-51 with McCain, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alasaka voting no alongside Democrats. (Alex Edelman/ZUma Press/TNS)

McCain’s surprise vote doomed GOP health care bill, but did it open the door for Senate bipartisanship?

By Lisa Mascaro | Tribune Washington Bureau
July 28, 2017
Actor Josh Gad attends the Disneys Beauty And The Beast UK Launch Event on Feb. 23, 2017 at Spencer House in London.

New ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to feature Disney’s first ‘exclusively gay moment’ in film

By Libby Hill | Los Angeles Times
March 1, 2017
Police cover the body of a suspect along 19th Avenue outside Watts Hall on Ohio States campus following a vehicular assault and stabbing on Nov. 28, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch/TNS)

Attacker who wounded 11 at Ohio State University was a student

By Matt Pearce | Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump acknowledges the chairman of the RNC, Reince Priebus, while talking to supporters at the Election Night Party at the Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday/TNS)

Priebus named White House chief of staff

By Amy Fiscus | Los Angeles Times
November 13, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. (David T. Foster III/Charlotte Observer/TNS)

Financial markets tumble on Trump’s surprising performance

By Jim Puzzanghera | Los Angeles Times
November 9, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton participate in the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in Las Vegas. (Yin Bogu/Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS)

NYC’s security headache: Trump, Clinton will be almost within shouting distance on election night

By Barbara Demick | Los Angeles Times
November 8, 2016
Jose Paseta, of Hallandale, Fla., walks along Hollywood Beach amid the lead elements of Hurricane Matthew on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/TNS)

Hurricane Matthew weakens as it moves to the north

By By John Cherwa and Nigel Duara | Los Angeles Times
October 7, 2016
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