Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.California resident Gregg Garfield, 54, spent two months in the hospital battling the novel coronavirus and only had a 1 percent chance of surviving -- but he managed to beat the odds and was released Friday.Garfield was in the hospital for…
A California city councilman was cited with misdemeanor battery after a physical altercation with protesters who confronted him at his home Tuesday over coronavirus restrictions.Fresno City Council President Miguel Arias told NBC affiliate KSEE that he felt threatened that the activists had shown up while his kids were home. He said that after asking them…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.California Democrats on Tuesday proposed giving tenants struggling during the coronavirus pandemic 10 years to pay their rent.The state would purchase unpaid rents and allow renters a decade, starting in 2024, to pay it back, under the proposal by Senate President…
WASHINGTON — Two House seats are up for grabs in special elections and the presidential primary race inched forward Tuesday, with most attention focused on a Los Angeles-area contest in which Republicans hope to win back a seat in a race overshadowed by the coronavirus.Democrats flipped California's 25th Congressional District in 2018 — a district…
Democratic state Assemblywoman Christy Smith and Republican Mike Garcia are facing off in the special election in California's 25th congressional district. The winner will serve out of the rest of Rep. Katie Hill's term in the 116th Congress. Hill resigned from her seat in October 2019. The race is being conducted almost entirely by mail. Voters must…
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…