A tentative decision from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant is yet another rebuke of officials trying to reimpose March-style lockdowns on a skeptical public.
Five who tested positive recently will participate in this week’s planned executions of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois.
San Mateo County Health Officer Scott Morrow, who supported last spring's stay-at-home orders, airs his misgivings about reviving that policy.
Courts ignore constitutional guarantees while defendants awaiting trial languish in jail.
Press coverage of the pandemic tends to exaggerate risk and ignore encouraging information.
Plaintiffs are suing for breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
Policymakers "must not penalize residents for earning a livelihood, safeguarding their mental health, or enjoying our most cherished freedoms," said Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes.
Some scientists offer an important reminder about cause and effect.
It is likely to be approved for distribution by the end of the week.
Airlines keep claiming they need a second bailout to bring back 35,000 furloughed employees. Don't buy their argument.
Able to do our jobs from where we please, life for many of us will reflect a bit more of what we want rather than what we have to do to get by.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra loves to tell people what they can and cannot do with their bodies.
Ka’Mauri Harrison is accused of bringing a BB gun to school. But he never left his house.
The National Bureau of Economic Research finds that U.S. media coverage of the pandemic is far bleaker than in other countries.
Coastal Carolina University beat BYU on a last-second play Saturday. Four days earlier, neither team expected to be playing the other.
No one has fought harder to keep kids out of the classroom than teachers unions.
The vaccines are great news, but the winter still looks bleak.
The scientific and medical knowledge used to develop and distribute the vaccines is not, thankfully, trapped within national borders.
Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists' contentment with the way things are now.
The governor's latest order dials up restrictions on whole swaths of California's economy in an effort to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.
Time to add a hat and sunglasses!
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Bob Bryant was infected with COVID-19 while on vacation and died. A news story tries to link that to church services.
We must not ignore the suffering that this pandemic and our collective response to it have inflicted on millions of fellow citizens.
The top Democrats originally supported a $2.2 trillion measure.
Steve Adler attended his daughter's 20-person wedding and then traveled with out-of-state family and friends.
Using police to forcefully shut down Mac's Public House is a violation of liberty and a waste of resources.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
It's not like we're in the middle of a pandemic or anything, right?
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D.C.'s public transit agency has already received close to $1 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.
Especially if the COVID-19 inoculations are deployed speedily and accepted widely.
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How pandemics joined war, terrorism, crime, and economic depression in the toolbox for ratcheting up government
Restaurant owners speak out about the "crippling" order, which will last at least three weeks.
In a year that will be remembered for a deadly pandemic that shut down parts of the economy and cost millions of people their jobs, here's one silver lining.
"If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all."
We're expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo described his policy as a "fear-driven response," cut by a "hatchet" rather than a "scalpel."
The mayor is traveling to Mississippi to spend the holiday with his wife and daughter.
There's more evidence that community use of facial coverings is an effective tool for curbing COVID-19 transmission.
