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California reopens. Is it safe to do so?
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Tuesday that retail stores, churches, drive-in movie theaters, and more could all reopen.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenLA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Tuesday that retail stores, churches, drive-in movie theaters, and more could all reopen. There are restrictions on how many people can enter certain places at once, and social distancing and face coverings are still required.
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5 storiesLA reopens retail stores, churches, drive-in theaters. Is it the right time?
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Tuesday that retail stores, churches, drive-in movie theaters, and more could all reopen. There are restrictions on how many people can enter certain places at once, and social distancing and face coverings are still required.
Read the story9 min16 kids in a class, playing alone at recess: What LA schools could look like
LA County’s Office of Education released guidelines today for how to bring its 2 million students back to campuses in the fall. Suggestions include each student having their own face mask and their own ball at recess so they can safely play alone.
Read the story8 minDoes President Trump have a First Amendment right to say what he wants on Twitter?
On Tuesday, Twitter used a fact-check label on two of President Trump’s tweets about voting by mail. In response, Trump complained that those fact checks violated his First Amendment rights.
Read the story9 min‘The Painter and the Thief’: Documentary about an unlikely friendship
Five years ago, a down-on-his-luck drug addict and an accomplice stole a pair of paintings from an art gallery in Norway. They were in full view of surveillance cameras. They were quickly caught and went to trial.
Read the story14 minHow is quarantine changing sexual relationships for both singles and couples?
Stay-at-home orders have been in effect for more than two months. What has that done to people’s sex lives, whether they have a partner or not? Britney Blair has conducted sex research in COVID-19 times.
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