Berkeley is gearing up to become the first city in the nation to ban junk food from the checkout line in grocery stores.In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council passed the “healthy checkout” ordinance.Come March 2021, when the measure is set to take effect, large grocery stores in the California city will be prohibited…
Berkeley, Calif., moved forward with a proposal Wednesday to eliminate police from conducting traffic stops and instead send unarmed civilian city workers.The proposal is part of a broad overhaul of law enforcement – the City Council has set a goal of cutting the police budget by 50 percent.The council approved the measure, proposed by Mayor Jesse Arreguin,…
UC Berkeley is warning that its fall reopening plans might be in jeopardy after university officials reported 47 new COVID-19 cases mostly linked to a series of frat parties. The new cases more than triple UC Berkeley’s running total of coronavirus cases: Before this week, the university had only reported 23 cases since the beginning…
Good morning and welcome to Fox News First. Here's what you need to know as you start your day ...UC Berkeley students plan bogus course to circumvent ICE guidelines, avoid deportations Hundreds of students at the University of California at Berkeley are privately discussing a plan to create a "dummy" course.The bogus class is allegedly being…
Hundreds of students at the University of California -- Berkeley are privately discussing a plan to create a "dummy" course solely to help international students on F-1 student visas avoid deportation under new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regulations -- and they say at least one faculty member is on board, Fox News has learned.The plan, which…
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…