What’s your real risk of exposure to COVID-19 at the grocery store?
A trip to the grocery used to be routine. Now it’s a real challenge. How long will you wait in line? Will the store have the items you need? And
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City Council Approves an Additional $300,000 to help Santa Clara Businesses and Nonprofits
At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the Council approved an additional $300,000 for small businesses in Santa Clara. They also allowed nonprofits to seek financial help. The total fund is now
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Q and A: Newly Elected Police Chief Pat Nikolai
Police Chief Pat Nikolai was sworn in at yesterday’s council meeting. Only a few people, including his wife Tedra, were in the room because of social distancing rules. The City Council and
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Notarize to add 1,000 online notaries to address demand for remote transactions
Notarize, the platform that enables digital notarizations, announced that it is adding 1,000 notaries to address demand as more Americans are ordered to shelter in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but
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Coronavirus: Trump signs order on immigration green card suspension
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to temporarily suspend the approval of some green cards. The measure, which contains a number of exemptions, is to last for 60
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Coronavirus: US unemployment claims hit 26.4 million amid virus
A further 4.4 million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to mount. The new applications brought the total number of jobless
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Bill Gates is now the leading target for coronavirus falsehoods, says report
Bill Gates is now the favorite target for coronavirus misinformation according to data compiled by the New York Times and Zignal Labs, a company that analyzes media sources. Conspiracy theories conflating Gates
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10 nurses were suspended from a California hospital for refusing to treat coronavirus patients without N95 masks
Ten nurses in a California hospital were suspended after saying they would not work in the coronavirus ward if they were not given protection including N95 masks, The Associated Press
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The Trump administration paid a bankrupt company with zero employees $55 million for N95 masks, which it’s never manufactured
The coronavirus pandemic has created a desperate clamber for vital medical supplies, like N95 masks, that has led the federal government to award massive contracts to third-party vendors to help
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Hundreds of thousands return to work as Spain relaxes coronavirus lockdown
Around 300,000 nonessential workers are estimated to have gone back to their jobs in Spain’s Madrid region on Monday as the country began a partial lifting of lockdown restrictions aimed
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