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Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal

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WHILE AMERICA and the world attempt to process the remarkable comeback of Donald Trump, Los Angeles is reckoning with a political earthquake of its own. Los Angeles County is home to nearly 10m people, making it more populous than all but ten states. Its five supervisors wield a $50bn budget. What happens in this sprawling conglomeration of suburbs and highways affects a quarter of all Californians. And, as in the rest of the country, Angelenos voted for change.

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Checks and Balance newsletter: Of God and MAGA

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Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, unpacks the blurring of church and state among Donald Trump’s circle

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The Hudson is now so clean that everyone can eat from it

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Battery sashimi, anyone?

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest

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America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting

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