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Alcatraz, the historic US island prison off San Francisco, opened up for a limited number of indoor tours, which had been off-limits for more than a year due to the pandemic. Face masks and social distancing are still required at the island, which once housed inmates such as Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Ferries to Alcatraz are operating at 25% capacity, carrying about 150 passengers instead of the usual 600. People walk up a hill toward the sally port on Alcatraz Island in San ...

Conservatives fear left-leaning newcomers will overturn politics in their strongholds. But newcomers change in their views, too.

Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions: What's Opening In CA This Week - Los Angeles, CA - Most Californians will once again be able to watch a movie at a theater and dine indoors as 13 counties were set to reopen Sunday.

Author of the article: Lloyd Brown-John Publishing date: Mar 13, 2021  •  March 13, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  In this Nov. 7, 2018 file photo,, Justin Denison, SVP of Mobile Product Development, shows off the Infinity Flex Display of a folding smartphone during the keynote address of the Samsung Developer Conference, in San Francisco. Samsung is expected to show off its latest smartphones Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, the latest effort by a phone maker to come up with new features ...

A federal judge ordered more surveillance and remedial measures after finding that California’s prisons continue to violate disabled inmates’ civil rights. In this July 9, 2020, file photo, a correctional officer checks a car entering the main gate of San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Finding persistent, targeted abuse of disabled inmates in California’s prison system, a federal judge on Thursday ordered prison officials to in...

A traveler wears a mask as she fills out a form at a check point set up by border police inside Romes Termini train station, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. In Italy the government extended a coronavirus containment order previously limited to the country’s north to the rest of the country beginning Tuesday, with soldiers and police enforcing bans. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Andrew Medichini A member of the medical staff measures the temperature of a traveller at a autobahn park plac...

Earl Sanders, San Francisco’s first Black chief, dies Earl Sanders, San Francisco’s first Black chief, dies March 5, 2021 by John Burris, Esq. I knew Earl Sanders for over 30 years and knew of him before that because he was a steadfast civil rights advocate both for Black officers and the African American community. As a civil rights advocate fighting against police abuse, Earl’s commitment to social justice was unflinching even though his attitudes caused concerns among his fel...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation promised to improve how it handles inmate reports of staff abuse and misconduct but delivered a bureaucratic mess instead. General population inmates walk in a line at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2016. State lawmakers Monday grilled prison officials on staff misconduct reporting failures. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (CN) — California prison officials sat before a panel of lawmakers in Sacramento two years a...

Indias government has been inviting and wooing foreign tech firms to join its ‘Make in India’ programme to boost the countrys manufacturing. In April 2020, a...

For one brief shining moment, the night of November 6, 2018, Gavin Newsom seemed invincible. More than 1,000 supporters had crammed into Exchange L.A., a nightclub located in the former Los Angeles stock-market building downtown, to cheer as he won the California gubernatorial race, a cresting moment in the midterm blue wave that swept scores of Democrats into office across the country. When the then-51-year-old newly elected governor of the largest state in the union took to the stage, the roa...