2022: The Year in Pictures

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Jan. 3, 2022: Snow falls over the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Jan. 3, 2022: A traveler takes a nap at LAX, after more than 1,900 U.S. flights and more than 3,300 worldwide were grounded.  (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

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Jan. 6, 2022: U.S. Capitol Police Officers on the East Front Plaza after a morning roll call on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 in Washington. A year ago, an insurrectionist mob stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in hopes of interrupting the certification of the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Jan. 11, 2022: A military honor guard rehearses carrying a casket into the U.S. Capitol Building ahead of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Feb. 5, 2022: Second Baptist Church marchers perform in the 42nd annual Orange County Black History Parade in Anaheim.  (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Feb. 13, 2022: Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp celebrates with his family after defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Feb. 16, 2022: Rams fans celebrate the Super Bowl championship during a parade in front of the Coliseum.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Feb. 23, 2022: California truckers against a COVID-19 mandate prepare to leave on a People’s Convoy to Washington, D.C., in Adelanto.  (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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March 1, 2022: Inside Disney World’s Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance attraction ride on opening day in Orlando, Fla. Players use a data pad to play the immersive game while they participate in activities such as light saber training.  (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

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March 4, 2022: Puppeteers give a sidewalk performance outside the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in the Highland Park. The longest continuously running puppet theater in America has adapted to much adversity since its founding in 1963. Soon after the initial pandemic lockdown was lifted, the troupe was tooling around L.A. in its “Marionette Mobile,” pulling into driveways or parking curbside and putting on a show.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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March 7, 2022: Jed Silva, 9, holds a flag to cheer on the members of the “People’s Convoy” as they depart the Hagerstown Speedway for the Capital Beltway in Hagerstown, Md. The truckers are making laps around the Washington Beltway to protest vaccination mandates and restrictions adopted to battle the pandemic.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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March 22, 2022: Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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March 24, 2022: Vivianne Robinson looks on as crews continue construction of the red carpet on Hollywood Blvd., days before the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater.   (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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March 28 ,2022: Silverado Canyon residents Bianca Kulback, left, and Eric Rivera watch mud and water flow across Silverado Canyon Road during a rainstorm.  (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

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March 31, 2022: A couple relaxes in a hammock tethered to the “Poly Pavillion” at Poly Canyon, a collection of experimental structures in the hills at the edge of the Cal Poly SLO campus in San Luis Obispo.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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April 2, 2022: Margaret Leyva peeks through the fence as people clean up a small homeless encampment located next to the 101 Freeway offramp near Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights, where Leyva lives.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

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April 6, 2022: Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon at City Hall.  (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

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April 7, 2022: Visitors to Angels Gate Park in San Pedro shoot baskets as the sun sets on a scorching day in Southern California.  (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

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April 12, 2022: Director Estevan Oriol at Cypress Hill’s studio in Los Angeles.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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April 18, 2022: The morning sunrise casts long shadows of palm trees across the lake while a person walks on the path and another fishes in solitude at Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley.  (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

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April 30, 2022: Paul Garcia, who lives in a small homeless encampment in San Pedro, gets his head shaved by his friend Elizabeth Villalobos.  (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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May 3, 2022: Hundreds, caught in a reflection pool, rally in front of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles over a leaked report that the Supreme Court was ready to overturn Roe vs. Wade.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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May 2, 2022: Birds fly above the Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier.  (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

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May 10, 2022: Ladies and gentlemen, the “Pope of Trash” and the “King of Puke,” director John Waters strikes an elegant form before a discussion and book signing for his first book of fiction, “Liarmouth,” at the Aratani Theater in Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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May 11, 2022: Firefighters battle a brush fire that spread to homes at Coronado Pointe in Laguna Niguel.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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May 27, 2022: Travelers, caught in a reflection, begin their Memorial Day holiday getaway at Los Angeles International Airport.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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June 7, 2022: Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) hugs Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) at the Giffords Gun Violence Memorial in front of the Washington Monument in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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June 9, 2022: Biden and Trudeau are called out by drag queens dressed as iconic Marilyn Monroes outside the Summit of the Americas 2022 in downtown Los Angeles. They each sang a spoof version of “Happy birthday, Mr. President” to life-sized cut-outs of the heads of states of the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador.  (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

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June 12, 2022: Kim Chi joins thousands at the 2022 LA Pride Parade in Hollywood.  (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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June 15, 2022: The Supreme Court building is reflected in the glasses of anti-abortion activist Matt Locke, who waits outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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June 19, 2022: Artists and creative spirits gather to celebrate the Arroyo Arts Collective, “Shade in LA,” exhibit at Studio 50 gallery in Highland Park. Using repurposed umbrellas as their canvas, artists explore the themes of climate change.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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June 22, 2022: A dog waits to be adopted in a cage at the Chesterfield Square Animal Services Center in Los Angeles.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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June 23, 2022: A family physician, right, and her resident perform a surgical abortion on a 39-year-old woman who already has four children the day before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at the Center for Reproductive Health clinic in Albuquerque, N.M.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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June 27, 2022: RiseupforAbortionRights rallies hundreds throughout downtown Los Angeles opposing the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe v. Wade.  (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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July 6, 2022: Fake blood drips down the steps of City Hall after activists chained themselves to columns following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in downtown Los Angeles.  (Wesley Lapointe/Los Angeles Times)

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July 10, 2022: People participate in the 39th annual Long Beach Pride Parade on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

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July 16, 2022: A Black cowgirl opens the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo carrying the American flag in City of Industry.  (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

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July 18, 2022: Alma Limon, and grandson, Mateo Chavez, 8, push a shopping cart of not potable water delivered by a tanker truck in the scorching heat in Apodaca, Mexico, where residents have been without running water for three days. The water is used to flush the toilet, launder clothing, wash dishes or bathe.  (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)

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July 19, 2022: Chelsea Maras, 22 weeks pregnant, at home in Huntington Beach.  (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 1 , 2022: Sheri Marchetti-Perrault and James Benton embrace as they sift through the remains of their home, which was destroyed by the McKinley fire as it burned along Highway 96 near Yreka.  (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 2. 2022: Matthew Bisesi does a back flip off a bridge into the water in Dana Point Harbor.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 11, 2022: Butch Locsin does one of his signature smoke performances in his handmade mask on a bridge over the L.A. River in Downey.  (Wesley Lapointe/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 11, 2022: Migrants disembark a bus from Texas within view of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Since April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered more than 150 buses to carry approximately 4,500 migrants from Texas to Washington to highlight criticisms of President Biden’s border policy.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 13, 2022: Red seems to be the color of the day with temperatures heating up as a visitor is framed within a public art piece by artist Larry Bell, titled “Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 22, 2022: Lady Kay, a 32-year-old dominatrix living in South Los Angeles, decided to hold off on meeting clients as mpox cases rose. Amid worries about the mpox virus, Lady Kay wants to make sure she can cover her limbs and is planning to wear gloves more judiciously during her work.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 23, 2022: A couple shares a moment with the Washington Monument and the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is seen in the distance from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Aug. 31, 2022: American singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is photographed at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood.  (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

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Sept. 4, 2022: A rare rainbow cloud, sometimes called fire rainbow, is seen in the sky above Playa Del Rey Beach. These bright displays of color in the sky form like rainbows, but they use ice instead of rain. Ice crystals act as the prism and create the colors.  (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)

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Sept. 6, 2022: A motorist drives past flames from the Fairview fire along Batista Road near Hemet.  (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

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Sept. 9, 2022: A pedestrian walks past a Kenny Scharf mural in Culver City.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Sept.13, 2022: Isa Stephen holds Elijah, 10 months, with partner Mollie Ginsen, at left, and another son, in their 2001 19-foot Freightliner school bus they purchased for $2500. They were helped by Catholic Charities to apply for the emergency housing voucher program (funded by the American Rescue Plan Act) in San Francisco.  (Paul Kuroda/For The Times)

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Sept. 13, 2022: Search and rescue teams remove a child’s bike from a destroyed garage while sifting through mud and debris for the body of an elderly woman in Forest Falls. According to neighbors, two adults and two children escaped the home, but the mother-in-law and the family dog are missing.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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Sept. 14, 2022: Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies escort Los Angeles SupervisorSheila Kuehl from her house after serving her an early-morning search warrant in Santa Monica. This was part of a criminal investigation into a county contract awarded to a nonprofit organization.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Sept. 24, 2022: Afghans visit the historic sites carved into a side of a mountain where the Buddha statue once stood before the Taliban destroyed it in their previous reign in 2001, in Bamyan, Afghanistan.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 1, 2022: Indian blockbuster filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli is center stage after the Hollywood success of his crossover action epic “RRR,” which took the world by storm.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 4, 2022: The Hollywood sign casts shadows on the hillside as painters refresh the world-famous landmark, which was last painted in 2012.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 4, 2022: Traffic streams past the Marathon Refinery in Carson.  (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 11, 2022: A pedestrian is caught in a reflection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Leimert Park, a day after a leaked audio recording was released of former President of the Los Angeles City Council Nury Martinez using racist language.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct.14, 2022: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Karen Bass, center, joins a crowd of supporters at the end of a meeting with constituents to hear their concerns at Tolliver’s Barber Shop in Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 22, 2022: Aztec dancer and “el general” Lazaro Arvizu.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 22, 2022: Thousands march during a Freedom Rally for Iran protesting in solidarity with women-led protests for regime change in downtown Los Angeles. They were also protesting the recent death of Mahsa Amini, pictured, which occurred within the custody of the Islamic republic’s “morality police.”  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 25, 2022: Pete White joins other protesters shouting for more than two hours to disrupt the Los Angeles City Council. They were calling on members of the council to resign.  (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 27, 2022: Jose Espitia harvests marigold flowers for Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) at Mi Rancho Conejo in Somis. Dia de Muertos is a holiday traditionally celebrated on Nov. 1 and 2, originating in Mexico. Traditions connected with the holiday include honoring the deceased using calaveras and Aztec marigold flowers known as cempazuchitl, and building home altars called “ofrendas.”  (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 27, 2022: A mountain lion darts from a hiding area in Brentwood, prompting a precautionary lockdown of a nearby elementary school.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 28, 2022: Father Greg Boyle, founder and director of Homeboy Industries, leads the morning meeting and shares his thought of the day at the company’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 2, 2022: A rain puddle reflects clouds from a passing storm as a bicyclist makes his way along Ocean Front Walk in Venice.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 6, 2022: Dr. Jennifer Robinson chats with Gov. Gavin Newsom at a rally at Long Beach City College.  (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 7, 2022: Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake high-fives supporters as she walks on stage for a late-night rally on the eve of the midterm elections in Scottsdale, Ariz.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 8, 2022: A beaver blood moon lunar eclipse is seen behind the Statue of Freedom atop the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building as it sets on election day in Washington.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 9, 2022: Student Claire Young laughs during a workshop called “Pretty Funny Women” at the home of Lisa Sundstedt in Sherman Oaks.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 12, 2022: To honor veterans and troops on Veterans Day, 2,001 flags are placed on the 11th annual Field of Valor on the grounds of Sierra Vista Middle School in Covina.  (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 17, 2022: Elton John performs during his farewell tour at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 23, 2022: Vice President Kamala Harris has an interaction with a life-size turkey while volunteering handing out broccoli at Big Sunday’s 11th annual Thanksgiving Stuffing Event at Baldwin Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles.  (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 28, 2022: Cindi Hilfman with her dogs Ghandi, left, and, Maizy, at her home in Topanga. Hilfman received a kidney transplant and takes medications to suppress her immune system so it won’t reject her new organ. People with compromised immune systems are still at great risk of becoming severely ill if they catch the coronavirus, and the gulf between them and the rest of society is widening.  (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

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Nov. 29, 2022: Lijian Jie yells in protest during a candlelight vigil at USC for victims who suffer under China’s stringent lockdown in Urumqi and for COVID victims.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 1, 2022: The Fife and Drum Corps marches by as President Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron look on during an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 1, 2022: Scenes from a World AIDS Day remembrance in Los Angeles.  (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 4, 2022: Marchers with a portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Cesar Chavez Boulevard during the 91st annual Virgen de Guadalupe procession in East Los Angeles.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 8, 2022: A worker is framed by a holiday display at the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica. CBRE brings in musical acts to entertain once a week, offers dance classes and a noon class on how to make floral arrangements as part of office landlords efforts to entice their tenants to stay.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 8, 2022: Eduardo Carmona moves his tent across First St. in downtown Los Angeles. City officials were on hand to clear homeless people camped at 1st Street and Spring Street ahead of the mayoral inauguration.   (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 9, 2022: The Los Angeles City Council went into recess after Kevin de Leon showed up at the council meeting during public comments.  (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)

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Dec. 9, 2022: Toxic smoke billows up over a line of tents on the sidewalk as a person burns plastic off copper wires in skid row in Los Angeles.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)