5 things to know for May 25: George Floyd, Covid-19, Justice Dept, immigration, India
The US has warned Americans not to travel to Japan as Covid-19 case numbers there rise, dealing another blow to the already uncertain future of the Summer Olympics.
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1. George Floyd
Today marks one year since the death of George Floyd, a tragedy that set in motion months of protests and reflection about the state of racial justice in America and, indeed, the world. From Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, to cities across the country, people will gather for marches and other commemorations. Floyd’s sister, daughter and his daughter’s mother will visit the White House at President Biden’s invitation. Meanwhile, there is new hope in Congress that a policing overhaul bill requested by Biden and in part informed by Fl
US intel agencies probe reports of early COVID-19 infections in China s Wuhan lab
A still-classified US intelligence report circulated during former President Donald Trump s administration alleged that three Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers became so ill in November 2019 that they sought hospital care
Reuters | May 25, 2021 | Updated 11:19 IST
US intelligence agencies are examining reports that researchers at a Chinese virology laboratory were seriously ill in 2019 a month before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to US government sources who cautioned that there is still no proof the disease originated at the lab.
A still-classified US intelligence report circulated during former President Donald Trump s administration alleged that three Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers became so ill in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, sources familiar with US intelligence reporting and analysis said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Editorial: Here s a miserable California tradition the state s new attorney general should change
May 25, 2021
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The sports book at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace in 2019.Bridget Bennett / Special to The Chronicle
Will California’s new attorney general, Rob Bonta, carry on one of the more unsavory customs of his predecessors? The state’s gambling interests have a few hundred thousand dollars that says he will.
Bonta, one of three politicians elevated to nominally elective offices by Gov. Gavin Newsom this year, has to persuade voters to let him keep the job next year. The former Alameda assemblyman has already raised more than half a million dollars toward that, and as Politico reported, casinos, card rooms and other gambling interests accounted for most of it.
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