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"The issue of evictions, the issue of this moment and the economic anxiety so many people are struggling and suffering through is the issue, and we have not lost sight of that," Newsom said on Friday at a signing ceremony. The Judicial Council anticipates 240,000 evictions filings this year, double the amount from 2019-2020, "given the potential universe of 903,000 households at risk." And the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia noted in an October 2020 report that more than 239,600 California...

Boycotts are historically ineffective Even if the Canadian Olympic Committee went along with a boycott, it is unlikely to be effective. The two most significant boycotts of the Olympic Games — the American-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games and the Soviet-bloc boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Games — failed to achieve their goals. The 1980 boycott was in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, but the Soviets remained in Afghanistan until 1989. The 1984 Soviet-led boy...

Regardless, civil rights advocates plan to push him to go big to eliminate disparities.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Man accused of killing mother in Sacramento was arrested weeks before in an S.F. robbery but D.A. Chesa Boudin did not charge him FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said the robbery “was not provable or chargeable.”Paul Chinn / The Chronicle A man accused of shooting and killing his mother in Sacramento was arrested and booked in a strong-arm robbery case weeks earlier in San Francisco, but the district attorney did not c...

Loading the player... California lifted regional stay-at-home orders across the state Monday in response to improving coronavirus conditions, returning the state to a system of county-by-county restrictions, state health officials announced. The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the majority of the state’s counties. A man walks past shuttered outdoor restaurant seating decorated with American flags on the first day of n...

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How Will US Nuclear Strike Authority Be Handed to Biden Amid Trump’s No-Show at Inauguration? © AP Photo / Los Alamos National Laboratory Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202101201081826659-how-will-us-nuclear-strike-authority-be-handed-to-biden-amid-trumps-no-show-at-inauguration/ Donald Trump has already left the White House and is on his way to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida during the countdown to the beginning of Joe Biden’s ...

Photos of the first Macworld in 1985, and why Steve Jobs was a no-show FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from the first Macworld at Brooks Hall in San Francisco on Feb. 21, 1985.Steve Ringman / The Chronicle The first big Apple computer convention was introduced to San Franciscans with a $5 off clip-and-save coupon. There was no online registration — only cash or checks, and “no credit cards accepted.” But despite the analog vibe of the first Macworld Expo in 1985, there were signs of the revo...

Much of the huge price tag for Biden’s pandemic plan would help people who are financially struggling because of COVID-19, offering $1400 checks, rent and food assistance, and expanded health care and unemployment benefits. But Biden also wants Congress to allocate $400 billion of the money to bolster the pandemic response, with $160 billion of that going toward mounting “a national vaccination program,” expanding diagnostic testing for COVID-19, and hiring 100,000 new community health wo...

Measles can be prevented by vaccination with measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. (AP file photo/Eric Risberg) ST. LOUIS (CN) — A group of Missouri parents told an Eighth Circuit panel on Tuesday that the state requires them to go through a forced indoctrination session to religiously opt out of vaccines required for their children to attend school. “This is a hybrid rights case,” plaintiffs’ attorney Linus Baker told the three-judge panel via a teleconference hearing. “It has many fu...