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A massive explosion at a paper mill in Maine, which sent a huge plume of thick, black smoke into the air, was caught on video Wednesday afternoon.No injuries were reported but much of the building was destroyed, according to reports.“I’m just so happy that everyone’s OK. Thank our lucky stars and the man upstairs,” Kristen…

California is launching a $125m disaster relief fund for undocumented immigrants, the first of its kind in the nation, California governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday. Undocumented immigrants make up 10% of California’s workforce, Newsom said, but are ineligible for unemployment insurance, pandemic unemployment assistance and federal stimulus support. “Regardless of your status, documented or undocumented,…

social distancing measures rallied in their cars in the state capital on Wednesday, snarling traffic and even blocking a hospital entrance in a protest against an executive order intended to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus in the state.“The cars were blocking one of our hospitals, so an ambulance literally wasn’t able to get…

The first alarming symptoms were spotted by nursing assistants three weeks ago, and word of the coughing patient sent a ripple of fear through the Detroit nursing home. The staff had been on alert since a Washington state care home was engulfed by coronavirus, killing at least 35 people in the first major outbreak of…

Former vice president Joe Biden sometimes has a loose definition of time.As we documented during the Ukraine controversy, Biden managed to squeeze several months of slow diplomacy into a damaging sound bite: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well,…