Reinstated coronavirus restrictions by state: What you need to know

As the United States approached the date commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbor, it found itself facing a new tragic event. In the five days leading up to December 7, 2020, the average number of daily deaths in America related to Covid-19 was 2,566. That surpassed the tragic loss of 2,403 American lives on that winter day 79 years ago.

With a COVID-19 vaccine perhaps just days away in the U.S., most of California headed into another lockdown Sunday because of the surging outbreak and top health officials warned Americans that this is no time to let their guard down. "The vaccine's critical," Dr.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's new coronavirus restrictions are not the "surgical" ones he promised, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., argued Tuesday.

A second correctional officer in Iowa has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to a local report.  The officer worked at the Clarinda Correctional Facility, a spokesperson from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union told local news station KCCI.  No other details were provided.  The fatality is the second such death in the state. A staff member at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville died on Nov.

Debra White Plume was a Lakota activist who was one of the leaders of the protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).White Plume was a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, and her home at the Pine Ridge reservation was where Native American activists occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973 and demanded that the U.S. government honor its treaties with their tribes.

It is often said that Congress is a microcosm of society.That’s only amplified during coronavirus. As COVID-19 burns through the country, it’s burning through the Capitol as well.

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Justice Democrats, a far-left PAC aligned with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is pushing for Rep.

The prospect of a Joe Biden presidency was a deal breaker, one Republican state lawmaker in Mississippi appeared to say last week. In a since-deleted Twitter message, state Rep.

SAN FRANCISCO – Former U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins, a widely respected veteran of the state and federal benches was confirmed Tuesday to California’s State Supreme Court. He will become the first openly gay man on the California Supreme Court, and only the fifth Black man ever to serve on the state’s highest court. It has been 29 years since an African American man has served on the California Supreme Court.

told the Mirror: “It is certainly something that our expert review will look at in terms of speed of onset and duration of the immune response.” Another source warned that allowing behaviour change in time for Christmas will be tight as immunity only develops 14 days after the second dose is administered.The clinical trial involved 44,000 volunteers in the US, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and Turkey.Among them was Glenn Deshields, a lobbyist from Austin, Texas, who compared the side

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts and is planning to release in Spring 2021.The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art.

Despite the coronavirus requiring masks and social distancing to pull off the Miss USA 2020 pageant, the pageant went ahead and crowned a new winner. Miss Mississippi Asya Branch, 22, beat out contestants from 49 other states and the District of Columbia on Nov. 9 to take home the title in a ceremony that took place in Memphis, TN. The competition had originally been scheduled for last spring, but postponed due to COVID-19.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAmid the grim news that the United States had recorded over 10 million coronavirus cases to date, California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state was moving the in the wrong direction.After revealing 7,212 new daily cases recorded over the past 24 hours in the state, Newsom said the 14 day average of hospitalizations was up 28.6%.