Kamala Harris

What a difference a day makes. On Tuesday, California was still wrangling with the Trump administration, as evidenced by nine final-hour lawsuits filed by Attorney General Xavier Becerra — bringing his four-year total to a staggering 122 lawsuits. Today, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president of the […]

As he's sworn in today by Vice President Kamala Harris to take her old seat, California's newest senator says the outgoing president and some fellow senators must be held accountable for the deadly siege of the Capitol.

Hoy Alex Padilla prestará juramento ante la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris para ocupar su antiguo escaño, el senador más nuevo de California dice que el presidente saliente y algunos compañeros senadores deben rendir cuentas por el mortal asedio del Capitolio.

The problems keep racking up for California’s vaccine rollout. State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan on Sunday recommended providers stop administering doses from a specific batch of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine following “a higher-than-usual number” of possibly severe allergic reactions at a mass vaccination site in San Diego. Although fewer than 10 people appeared to experience […]

A drive for achievement and success is a quintessential Indian-American trait, and I’m delighted to rejoice in Kamala Harris’ accomplishment.

Seventy years ago, sharecroppers David and Mildred Nash refused to back down in a dispute with a white farmer, and fled from a lynch mob in Hope, Arkansas. With their 2-year-old daughter in tow, they found a new home out west in a place so different her grandfather, who would die without ever being able […]

Coronavirus, of course, detonated our every expectation of 2020. For the most fortunate, this created room for new pastimes, new priorities. For the least so, it hollowed out holes that can never be filled. Nor was COVID our only profound challenge. There were raging wildfires, again. There was an overdue reckoning with racism, again. There […]

The appointments of Alex Padilla and Shirley Weber point to the value for voters to be able to see themselves in their elected officials.

Los nombramientos de Alex Padilla y Shirley Weber apuntan al valor para los votantes de poder verse a sí mismos en sus funcionarios electos.

In choosing a new U.S. senator and a new secretary of state, Gov. Gavin Newsom could shape Democratic politics for years to come.