Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Gavin Newsom was the first governor to , shutting down California’s economy, the world’s eighth-largest, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The next day, Friday, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, followed suit. But not so in Texas and Florida, the nation’s second and third most populous states, where a small-government philosophy — less taxes, fewer regulation and a weaker safety net — has long held sway. About one-fifth of Texas’ 29 million people lacks health insurance, and nearly one-quarter of Florida’s 21 million...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Gavin Newsom was the first governor to , shutting down California’s economy, the world’s eighth-largest, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The next day, Friday, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, followed suit. But not so in Texas and Florida, the nation’s second and third most populous states, where a small-government philosophy — less taxes, fewer regulation and a weaker safety net — has long held sway. About one-fifth of Texas’ 29 million people lacks health insurance, and nearly one-quarter of Florida’s 21 million...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement When Minnesota police advanced on peaceful protesters gathered at an intersection outside the Fifth Precinct late Saturday, I didn’t expect them to fire on reporters.I was wrong.For the record:At about 8:30 p.m., a group of about two dozen appeared from behind a chain-link fence opposite protesters. They were in riot gear and grasping batons.A young African American woman approached the police, arms raised. An officer sprayed her in the face with something that smelled like pepper spray, and the woman ran to seek help...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement When Minnesota police advanced on peaceful protesters gathered at an intersection outside the Fifth Precinct late Saturday, I didn’t expect them to fire on reporters.I was wrong.For the record:At about 8:30 p.m., a group of about two dozen appeared from behind a chain-link fence opposite protesters. They were in riot gear and grasping batons.A young African American woman approached the police, arms raised. An officer sprayed her in the face with something that smelled like pepper spray, and the woman ran to seek help...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Abdishakur Elmi looked on in horror as flames raged and smoke billowed from the roof of the brick building next to his restaurant. A single truck and a few firefighters battled the blaze that had already consumed several neighboring businesses overnight in a gentrified section of East Lake Street, a major thoroughfare. The police station had been set alight down the street, and protesters who had overrun it milled with the curious in smoky morning light.The neighborhood was under siege. The blaze threatened Hamdi Restaurant, which...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Abdishakur Elmi looked on in horror as flames raged and smoke billowed from the roof of the brick building next to his restaurant. A single truck and a few firefighters battled the blaze that had already consumed several neighboring businesses overnight in a gentrified section of East Lake Street, a major thoroughfare. The police station had been set alight down the street, and protesters who had overrun it milled with the curious in smoky morning light.The neighborhood was under siege. The blaze threatened Hamdi Restaurant, which...WW…