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Nigel Duara CalMatters UPDATE: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2799 on Sept. 30, 2022. Gary Bryant Jr. exchanged gunfire with a man in an Antioch apartment parking lot on a July afternoon in 2014. Both were struck by bullets. Bryant survived and the other man died. Police said...
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When Laura Swartzen saw the email from Sacramento State University’s Title IX office, it felt like her heart skipped a beat. Swartzen, the Sac State confidential campus advocate, had spent the past nine months supporting a student who reported being sexually assaulted. Swartzen had listened to the student’s wrenching...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Nicole Sanchez, known in the online world as Neekolul or Neeko, is a Mexican-American Twitch streamer and content creator who has capitalized on the livestreaming popularity boom playing video games, dressing up in cosplay, and cooking her favorite recipes while engaging with viewers by way...
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Con más de 177 millones de casos y 2.8 millones de fallecimientos, las Américas se convirtieron en el epicentro de la pandemia de COVID. Tal es la dramática conclusión de “Salud en las América”, la publicación insignia de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS). Ninguna región del continente,...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Avatar changed the process of filmmaking and pushed the edges of what was possible to create with technology and film. Even a decade+ later it looks good on the small screen. But now there’s the opportunity to watch it once again in theaters, in a...
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The Biden Administration last week gutted the signature Trump-era policy known as public charge, which effectively imposed a wealth tax on people seeking to gain permanent residency in the US. The new rule will go into effect on Dec. 23. It has already undergone a 60-day public comment period,...
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is ratcheting up his attacks against the nation’s democratic institutions in the run up to the October 2 presidential elections. But with rising inflation, high unemployment, and staggering rates of poverty the president’s gambit could backfire. While threatening democracy may appeal to his base, it...
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Puede estar pensando: “Me pusieron las vacunas contra el COVID. ¿Por qué necesito otra?” Aunque se haya puesto una dosis de refuerzo hace unos meses o haya tenido COVID en el pasado, es posible que no esté bien protegido. Como el virus sigue cambiando y adaptándose, nosotros también debemos...
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Si te despiden, hay un sistema que se supone que te ayudará a salir adelante: las prestaciones por desempleo. Cada vez que California enfrenta una pandemia o una posible recesión, el programa de reemplazo parcial de salarios es una de las salvaguardas económicas más importantes para los trabajadores. Pero...