By Eric Ting, SFGATE Updated 2:22 pm PDT, Thursday, May 14, 2020 People wear masks as they socially distance themselves from one another while waiting in line to enter a grocery store on Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Alameda, Calif. People wear masks as they socially distance themselves from one another while waiting in line to…
Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced the establishment of the new California Immigrant Resilience Fund, which will provide pandemic relief payments to migrant and undocumented people. The state is putting up $75 million and philanthropic partners are putting up $50 million for the fund, which will provide one-time payments of $500, or $1,000 max per…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…