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Scotland’s first minister apologized after being caught not wearing a mask at a funeral wake, defying her own COVID-19 restrictions, numerous sources reported.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologized for not wearing a mask while talking to multiple people inside an Edinburgh bar after a funeral for a civil servant Friday, the BBC reported. A member of the public shared the photos, which captured Sturgeon in a public part of the venue, with the Scottish Sun.
EXCL: Nicola Sturgeon breaks her own Covid law by standing in a bar and chatting to pensioners – without wearing a face mask.
Gov. Gavin Newsom suddenly changed Assembly member Shirley Weber’s political trajectory, and possibly Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez’s as well.
Newsom’s choice of Weber as California secretary of state was his second appointment Tuesday that reverberated across the state and this one was even more of a surprise.
Earlier in the day, the governor announced that Secretary of State Alex Padilla will fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Several names had been floated, but Padilla’s was always among the most prominent.
There had not been near the speculation over who might replace Padilla should he get the Senate nod, and Weber didn’t figure into what little there was.
Gavin Newsom s decision to name California Secretary of State
Alex Padilla as
Kamala Harris replacement in the Senate. Breed feels that Newsom missed an opportunity to appoint a young, Black woman to the Senate. This is a real blow to the African American community, to African American women, to women in general, Breed said. It s really challenging to put it into words, but it was definitely a surprise.
Prior to being elected as the next Vice President, Kamala Harris was the only Black woman serving in the Senate. Currently, Tim Scott and Cory Booker are the only Black Senators in the U.S.
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As the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation this spring, state and local governments were tasked with devising restrictions and regulations to help protect their residents as scientists worked tirelessly to create a vaccine.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, some governors like Georgia sRepublican Gov. Brian Kemp and South Dakota sGov. Kristi Noem chose to keep their economies open while risking transmission. Others took a hard-line stance at the expense of their economies but at the recommendation of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shutting down small businesses, restaurants, public beaches and schools in an effort to fend off the disease.
The California Department of Public Health says the current ICU capacity in the Bay Area is 11.3%. There were 30,375 newly recorded confirmed cases in California on Friday.