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He becomes the first Black person to be elected to the Senate from the state and the first Black Democratic senator from the South.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Yale professor Alicia Schmidt Camacho and NPR correspondent Franco Ordoñez about Latin American migration into the U.S. and government policies trying to address it.

They're popping up across the country, and now North Park has its own 'Community Fridge.' But there is some concern from local businesses.

"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box," said Commissioner Rob Manfred. A new host city for the game was not named.

Voting concludes Tuesday in the rare, late-summer election that has emerged as a national battlefront on issues from COVID-19 restrictions to climate change.

The state Assembly followed San Diego County's lead Friday in passing a measure declaring medical misinformation a public health crisis.

This is the September 2021 archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

California's beleaguered restaurant and hospitality industry rebounded in October, adding 66,000 jobs as the unemployment rate in the nation's most populous state dipped below 10% for the first time since the pandemic upended its economy in March.

China's is likely the only major economy to have expanded in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the world.

A larger White House campaign is targeting what it calls anti-competitive behavior in several industries, including meatpacking, in which over 80% of beef goes through just four companies.