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Tết Festival draws crowds for Lunar New Year celebration

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Brian Lee portrays a village guard at the UVSA Tet Festival which is being held at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa on Saturday, February 9, 2019. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer) A girl reacts to the Bolsa Grande Lion Dancers who opened the UVSA Tet Festival which is being held…

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Trump’s Year 3 aims for dramatic sequels to rival originals

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By CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE | Associated Press WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump prepares to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for a second time, he’s out to replicate the suspenseful buildup, make-or-break stakes and far-flung rendezvous of their first encounter. The reality star American president will soon learn if the sequel, on this…

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Nancy Pelosi shows pragmatic streak in pursuit of border deal

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By ANDREW TAYLOR | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans have vilified Nancy Pelosi for years as a San Francisco liberal, and now they’re trying to portray her as a captive of resurgent left-wingers in her Democratic Party. But in her early moves so far as House speaker, Pelosi is displaying her pragmatic streak. She’s set to…

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Calls mount for Virginia lieutenant governor’s resignation

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RICHMOND, Va. — Calls were mounting for Virginia’s lieutenant governor to resign Saturday, at the tail end of an astonishing week that saw the state’s top three elected officials — all Democrats — embroiled in potentially career-ending scandals fraught with questions of race, sex, and power. Two women have accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of…

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Elizabeth Warren makes presidential bid official with call for change

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By ELANA SCHOR | Associated Press LAWRENCE, Mass. — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren made her bid for the presidency official on Saturday in this working-class city, grounding her 2020 campaign in a populist call to fight economic inequality and build “an America that works for everyone.” Warren delivered a sharp call for change at her presidential…

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L.A. City Hall’s real rat problem: Corruption

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On the south side of Los Angeles City Hall, several floors above Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office and the homeless people who nap on the lawn, a quote from the Roman statesman Cicero is chiseled into the face of the building. “He that violates his oath,” it says, “profanes the divinity of faith itself.” …