California
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday, 11/10, on California v. Texas, another challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
President Donald Trump eclipsed 5.7 million votes in California this week, surpassing every Republican candidate in California history…
Gov. Newsom is at the eye of what may be the most diverse lobbying campaign to sweep California—the appointment of Sen. Harris’s replacement…
California, Oregon and Washington on Friday, 11/13, issued a joint travel advisory discouraging nonessential travel and urging visitors and residents returning from other states to quarantine for 14 days…
On Wednesday, 11/18, Rep. Levin will hold a town hall with Dr. Andrea LaCroix, Distinguished Professor and Chief of Epidemiology in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego, to answer questions about COVID-19 and provide an update on Congress’ efforts to pass more relief legislation…
President and Administration
President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time on Sunday, 11/15, that Joe Biden won the presidential election, but the President refused to concede and blamed his loss on a string of conspiracy theories…
Education
The total number of international students studying at U.S. universities, whether from within the U.S. or online from abroad, decreased by 16 percent this fall, while enrollments of new international students decreased by 43 percent, according to a new survey of more than 700 colleges conducted by 10 major higher education organizations…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday, 11/12, backed Harvard University in a lawsuit over its admissions system…
Undergraduates who are studying online this fall rate their learning experience as modestly better than what they encountered last spring -- with greater levels of satisfaction among students who see their instructors taking steps to understand and engage them, according to a new survey of 3,400 undergraduates in the U.S. and Canada…
Congress
Top congressional Democrats renewed calls for a sweeping COVID-19 relief package on Thursday, 11/12, insisting that voters had given President-elect Biden and his party a mandate to fight the pandemic aggressively…
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, 11/10, released drafts of all 12 annual spending bills for 2021, setting up negotiations for a deal ahead of the Dec. 11 deadline to keep the government running…
Coronavirus
Over the past week, there has been an average of 150,265 cases per day, an increase of 81 percent from the average two weeks earlier…
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna was more than 94 percent effective in the first results from a late-stage U.S. trial with 30,000 people, the company said Monday, 11/16…