Friday’s announcement comes as the state’s prisons battle a dramatic surge in Covid-19 cases Two women hold up a banner urging Gavin Newsom to free prisoners, during a news conference outside San Quentin state prison on Thursday. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP Prison officials have announced California will release up to 8,000 people from state prisons to…
Florida, Texas and California — three of the states hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic — all set new records for the daily number of deaths from the virus on Thursday, signaling that that recent spike in cases is beginning to take its toll.Florida reported 120 new deaths as the state has quickly become one of…
Now that’s a big tip.A California waitress has received over $78,000 in tips and praise as an “everyday hero” after kicking out the CEO of a San Francisco tech company who cursed at an Asian family during a racist rant at a restaurant over the Fourth of July weekend.Gennica Cochran, who works as a server at…
OAKLAND, Calif. — On Thursday, Uber expanded the number of California cities where drivers can set their own rates as a function of the company’s price “multiplier” — used in Uber’s so-called “surge” pricing. The move builds on a pricing experiment that began in January in Sacramento, Santa Barbara and Palm Springs.Under the new plan,…
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) sued the Trump administration Thursday, seeking to block a rule that would require international students to take classes in person this fall, despite increasing coronavirus cases.“Right now is the worst time to enforce such a policy,” Becerra said, with just weeks to go before the start of the school…
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…