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‘This Is Me’: Rioters Flaunt Involvement in Capitol Siege

January 26, 2021

WASHINGTON — These suspects weren't exactly in hiding. “THIS IS ME,” one man posted on Instagram with a hand emoji pointing to himself in a picture of the violent mob descending on the U.S. Capitol. “Sooo we...

McConnell Backs Off Senate Filibuster Fight With Schumer

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January 26, 2021

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the procedural tool known as the filibuster, easing a standoff with new Majority Leader Chuck Schumer a...

California Reveals Data Used to Lift Stay-at-Home Order

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January 26, 2021

SACRAMENTO — California’s health department on Monday released to the public previously secret projections for future hospital intensive care unit capacity throughout the state, the key metric for lifting the c...

More Cancellations for Carnival Amid Jumbled Vaccine Rollout

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January 26, 2021

Carnival Cruise Line is canceling and delaying more U.S. trips at a time when new cases of COVID-19 are averaging about 170,000 per day in the country amid a jumbled rollout of vaccines. Carnival's planned s...

Pompeii’s Museum Comes Back to Life to Display Amazing Finds

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January 25, 2021

POMPEII, Italy — Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii’s museum has been reborn, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city. Officials of the archeologica...

Biden Reverses Trump Ban on Transgender People in Military

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January 25, 2021

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military. The new order, which Biden signed in th...

Twitter Launches Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Project

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January 25, 2021

Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. The pilot program unveiled Monday, called Birdwatch, allows a preselected gro...

Biden More Bullish on Vaccines, Open to 1.5M Daily Shot Goal

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January 25, 2021

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday appeared to boost his goal for coronavirus vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, suggesting that the nation could soon be vaccinating 1.5 million Americans on ...

US Virus Numbers Drop, but Race Against New Strains Heats Up

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January 25, 2021

Coronavirus deaths and cases per day in the U.S. dropped markedly over the past couple of weeks but are still running at alarmingly high levels, and the effort to snuff out COVID-19 is becoming an ever more urg...

Effort to Put Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill Restarts

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January 25, 2021

WASHINGTON — With a change of administrations, it looks like Harriet Tubman is once again headed to the front of the $20 bill. Biden press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the Treasury Department is taki...

9th Circuit Sympathetic to Nevada Churches in COVID-19 Fight

Biden’s Pick for UN Post Calls China ‘A Strategic Adversary’

Recalling a California Governor, Explained

Fresno Airport Lands on City’s Rename List Over Vote on Women’s Rights

In Neighborhoods With Street Named for MLK, Residents are Poorer, Highly Segregated: Study

Opinion: Newsom, Legislature Must Urgently Prioritize Kids and Reopen Schools

Water Partnerships Between Cities and Farms Would Help Prepare for a Changing Climate

California’s Bill for Fighting Trump in Court? $41 Million So Far

In First Known Case, Gorillas Test Positive for Coronavirus at San Diego Zoo Park

Empty Seas: Oceanic Shark Populations Dropped 71% Since 1970

Newsom Gambles With Abrupt COVID Reopening. Will It Ease Recall Threat?

Disneyland to Update Jungle Cruise to be More Culturally Inclusive

Opinion: California Farmers Looking for Regulatory Sanity

Walters: California’s Unemployment Insurance Mess Laid Bare

Walters: California Employment Takes a Downturn

Opinion: Newsom, Legislature Must Urgently Prioritize Kids and Reopen Schools

GV Wire Unfiltered - January 12, 2021

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

COVID-19 Brings a New Kind of Ramadan for Muslim Community

'Democracy Prevailed': Biden Aims to Unify Divided Nation

Valley GOP Lawmaker Valadao Votes To Impeach Trump

Biden Win Confirmed After Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol

Trump Says He’ll ‘Fight Like Hell’ to Hold on to Presidency

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‘This Is Me’: Rioters Flaunt Involvement in Capitol Siege

McConnell Backs Off Senate Filibuster Fight With Schumer

California Reveals Data Used to Lift Stay-at-Home Order

More Cancellations for Carnival Amid Jumbled Vaccine Rollout

Pompeii’s Museum Comes Back to Life to Display Amazing Finds

Biden Reverses Trump Ban on Transgender People in Military

Twitter Launches Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Project

Biden More Bullish on Vaccines, Open to 1.5M Daily Shot Goal

US Virus Numbers Drop, but Race Against New Strains Heats Up

Effort to Put Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill Restarts

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