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Shoppers at Best Buy in Mission Valley on Black Friday, Nov. 27, 2020.

Virus Keeps Black Friday Crowds Thin, Shoppers Shift Online

After months of slumping sales and businesses toppling into bankruptcy, Black Friday is offering a small beacon of hope. But a spike in coronavirus cases is threatening the economy’s recovery from the sudden plunge in the spring.

Young activists with the Sunrise Movement fill the halls of Congress to lobby for a Green New Deal in an undated photo

San Diego's Climate Action Campaign Launches Speakers Series On Green New Deal

The Green New Deal is a political framework introduced by congressional Democrats in February that recognizes the responsibility of the federal government to address the threat climate change poses to the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked states to prepare for distribution of a coronavirus vaccine.

States Prepare For Potential Fall Vaccine Distribution Under Pressure From CDC

"We've got to take a deep breath," says one health official about the rapid timeline pushed by the CDC. "It is very clear that we need to lean forward to prepare to deliver the vaccine."

A person wearing a face mask at the Piazza Di Spagna in Rome during the coronavirus emergency, on Tuesday, after the Italian government imposed national restrictions to control the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

As Coronavirus In China Wanes, Italy, South Korea See Brunt Of Epidemic

The United Kingdom's health minister has also been diagnosed with coronavirus – one of nearly 400 confirmed cases in that country, as Turkey on Wednesday announced its first case.

Families with young children protest the separation of immigrant families with a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington last week.

Federal Judge Calls Government Plan To Reunify Migrant Families 'Disappointing'

The Trump administration had argued that the ACLU should take responsibility for locating parents who were deported back to Central America without their children.

A man with a stroller on Aug. 1, 2020, walks by a Balboa Park health and safety guidelines sign design to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

County Remains In Red Tier As 251 New Cases, 5 Deaths Reported

San Diego County public health officials have reported 251 new COVID-19 infections and five additional deaths related to the illness, raising the county's totals to 46,985 cases and 781 fatalities.

Ethan Howard was among 235 people in the southern Indiana community of Austin, Ind., to be infected with HIV in an outbreak that hit in 2015. It was fueled by injection drug use.

5 Years After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Many Rural Places Remain At Risk

Fewer than a third of the 220 counties deemed by the federal government as vulnerable to similar outbreaks have active syringe exchange programs which can stop the spread of the infection.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department monitoring the protests in Los Angeles on May 30, 2020.

National Guard Called In To Quell Violence In Los Angeles

The Los Angeles mayor says National Guard troops will be deployed overnight as violence continues in the nation's second-largest city. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Saturday evening he asked Gov. Gavin Newsom for 500 to 700 members of the Guard.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer at Gentry’s Beauty and Barber Headquarters on July 29, 2020, announcing a proposed $700,000 plan to help businesses in underserved communities hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

SD City Council Moves $700,000 In CARES Act Funds To Underserved Businesses

The influx of money from the city's previously allocated Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funds will provide grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, specialized outreach, and technical assistance to business owners.

Coronavirus testing at the San Diego county lab, Feb. 28, 2020.

SD County Remains in Red Tier For COVID 19, Supervisors Told

San Diego County will remain in the red tier for COVID-19 cases, with a state-adjusted case rate of 6.7 per 100,000 residents, the county's public health officer told the Board of Supervisors during their meeting Tuesday.

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