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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2008, file photo, Nicholas Burns announces his retirement at the State Department in Washington. President Joe Biden is facing a fresh challenge to his oft-repeated commitment to diversity in his administration: assembling a diplomatic corps that gives a nod to key political allies and donors while staying true to a campaign pledge to appoint ambassadors who look like America. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
AP source: Biden picks LA mayor, envoy for ambassador posts

By Michael Balsamo And Michael R. Blood May. 27, 2021 12:08 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2008, file photo, Nicholas Burns announces his retirement at the State Department in Washington. President Joe Biden is facing a fresh challenge to his oft-repeated commitment to diversity in his administration: assembling a diplomatic corps that gives a nod to key political allies and donors while staying true to a campaign pledge to appoint ambassadors who look like America. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
AP source: Biden picks LA mayor, envoy for ambassador posts

By Michael Balsamo And Michael R. Blood May. 26, 2021 03:42 PM EDT

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, left, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders, including Mayor Eric Garcetti, back center, outside City Hall, Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles. Faith and community leaders in Los Angeles called for peace, tolerance and unity in the wake of violence in the city that is being investigated as potential hate crimes. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Police say antisemitic attacks in Los Angeles may be related

May. 20, 2021 08:35 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, a full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train is displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. On Friday, May 14, 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed spending $11 billion on transportation improvements, half of it for a troubled bullet train intended to link California's major metropolitan areas eventually and projects supporting the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Democratic governor billed the proposal as a way not just to repair decaying roads and bridges but to "build a modernized transportation system for the next century." That also includes improving public transportation and the state's major ocean ports and encouraging more use of zero-emission vehicles. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
$11B for transit would aid bullet train, move Olympic crowds

By Don Thompson May. 14, 2021 07:56 PM EDT

Latino artists star in bilingual LA vaccination campaign

May. 13, 2021 02:39 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The city of Los Angeles is launching a bilingual campaign featuring Latino artists encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. ...

Kiara Herzer, of Albuquerque, stands with University of New Mexico mascot "Lucy Lobo" as she tells how she got her second vaccine shot in her right arm as she was the 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine shot administered at the UNM Health vaccination clinic at the Pit, Wednesday, April, 28 , 2021, in Albuquerque, N.M.(Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
The Latest: Philippine president eases lockdown in capital

By The Associated Press May. 13, 2021 04:40 AM EDT

A trashed wheel chair is seen on a homeless encampment on the side of the CA-101 highway in Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 11, 2021. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to “functionally end family homelessness” within five years. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
California governor proposes $12B to house state's homeless

By Julie Watson And Janie Har May. 11, 2021 12:43 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, motorists line up at a COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Los Angeles residents will no longer need an appointment for COVID-19 vaccinations at city-run inoculation sites, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Sunday, May 9, 2021. The city is prepared to administer over a quarter million vaccinations for the second week in a row, the mayor's office said. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
Los Angeles to offer appointment-free COVID-19 vaccinations

May. 09, 2021 05:53 PM EDT

People ride escalators at Washington Metro's Dupont Circle station, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington. As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling with a new uncertainty: how to win passengers back. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Public transit hopes to win back riders after crushing year

By Hope Yen, Christopher Weber, Sophia Tareen And David Porter May. 02, 2021 08:13 AM EDT

A woman waits to board a train as it arrives at Metro Center station, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington. As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling with a new uncertainty: how to win passengers back. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Public transit hopes to win back riders after crushing year

By Hope Yen, Christopher Weber, Sophia Tareen And David Porter May. 02, 2021 08:09 AM EDT

Nurse Natasha Garcia administers a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Monica Villalobos in a mobile clinic set up in the parking lot of a shopping center in Orange, Calif., Thursday, April 29, 2021. The mobile unit, launched in February by Families Together of Orange County, began its service to provide better access to the COVID-19 vaccine within the community and to prevent vaccine hesitation, according to mobile operations manager Parsia Jahanbani. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
LA's Dodger Stadium vaccine site to shut down by end of May

By John Antczak Apr. 30, 2021 10:45 AM EDT

In this April 23, 2021 photo, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Ottawa. Drug maker Pfizer says, Friday, April 30, it will start sending U.S.-produced COVID-19 vaccines to Canada next week. It's the first time the U.S. has allowed that company’s vaccine exported north. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
The Latest: Canada puts J&J vaccine rollout plans on hold

By The Associated Press Apr. 30, 2021 03:02 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, homeless people sleep in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, ordered the city and county to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days and audit any spending related to the out-of-control crisis of people living on the streets. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Judge orders LA to offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row

By Christopher Weber Apr. 20, 2021 05:38 PM EDT

File - In this Wednesday, April 7, 2021, file photo, people stand in line for the COVID-19 Johnson & Johnson vaccine outside Pierce College in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles has opened up vaccines to younger people, days ahead of the state broadening eligibility to everyone 16 and up. State health officials warned last week of decreases in supply because of a national reduction of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
City of Los Angeles expands vaccine eligibility to 16 and up

Apr. 11, 2021 02:29 PM EDT

Members of the Los Angeles Dodgers greet each other during player introductions before a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, April 9, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Dodgers receive World Series rings in pregame ceremony

By Greg Beacham Apr. 09, 2021 04:31 PM EDT

Two children wearing face masks react as a roller coaster departs a station at Six Flags Magic Mountain on its first day of reopening to members and pass holders in Valencia, Calif., Thursday, April 1, 2021. The theme park had been closed since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
California governor gets J&J vaccine as eligibility expands

By Michael R. Blood And Janie Har Apr. 01, 2021 12:58 PM EDT

A visitor, who declined to give his name, rests on a bench with two figures during the Knott's Taste of Boysenberry Festival at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif., Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Massive Los Angeles County can reopen even more businesses, California public health officials announced Tuesday. The county of 10 million people was one of several counties, including neighboring Orange County, that moved into the state's second-least restrictive orange tier amid low coronavirus case rates. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
California counties ease restrictions as COVID-19 cases fall

By Janie Har And Stefanie Dazio Mar. 31, 2021 01:03 AM EDT

In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021, photo, parents pick up school materials outside the Aurora Elementary School in Los Angeles. Students in California classrooms can sit 3 feet apart instead of 6 under new guidelines adopted by the state as school officials figure out how to reopen campuses closed for a year during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
California adopts 3-foot distancing rule for classrooms

Mar. 21, 2021 03:38 PM EDT

Accountant Tercio Galdino and wife Alicea, dressed in their astronaut costumes, pose for a photo backdropped by Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, March 20, 2021. The Galdinos have come up with a unique way for protecting themselves and drawing awareness around COVID-19 protective measures – by dressing as astronauts. The pair first began to traverse the iconic beaches fully suited in mid 2020 at the height of the first wave of the pandemic in Brazil, now as cases surge once again they are taking their ‘astronaut walks’ back to the promenades. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
The Latest: UNLV now plans in-person spring graduation

By The Associated Press Mar. 20, 2021 06:52 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 19, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has his temperature taken during a screening amid the coronavirus pandemic before a news briefing at the Los Angeles Jewish Home in Reseda, Calif. Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti says a lot of pandemic deaths could have been prevented in California if the state had focused earlier on vaccinating people in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Garcetti also said Friday, March 19, 2021, the federal and state governments haven't given local officials like him enough freedom to inoculate who they feel are most at risk. (Hans Gutknecht/The Orange County Register via AP, File)
LA mayor says vaccines by ZIP code would have saved lives

By Janie Har And Michael R. Blood Mar. 19, 2021 06:44 PM EDT