Xavier Becerra
California’s attorney general, son of working class parents and first in his family to go to college (Stanford) is nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be secretary of Health and Human Services.
Dianne Feinstein
Calls increase for California senator, 87, the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, to resign after a New Yorker magazine article describes her cognitive decline and increasing memory lapses.
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Doctors & nurses
Doctors & nursesFDA officials approve the COVID vaccine and exhausted health care workers will get it this month. But hospitals are filling up, as many people continue to ignore health warnings.