SURFSIDE, Fla. — The death toll from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condo building has risen to nine as search-and-rescue efforts continue, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday. One person died in the hospital, and workers pulled four more bodies from the wreckage, the mayor said. Scores of […]
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Deaths on Construction Sites – The Atlantic
Photographs by Daniel Shea In 2014, at age 19, Eric Mendoza left his farming village outside Mexico City and crossed the Rio Grande. Once in the United States, he worked construction jobs to pay his way across the country. From Texas, Mendoza traveled to rural North Carolina, where he built […]
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival to include film about deaths along border
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in its 11th year partnering with Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts, is returning to San Diego virtually in February. Because the festival has moved to a digital platform due to the ongoing pandemic, from February 2 through 8, viewers from across the United […]
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Two deaths were not caused by Camden SC house fire: Cops
Two bodies were found Sunday in a house fire in the Midlands, but law enforcement said foul play, not the fire, was the cause of death. Members of the Camden Fire Department found the bodies after getting the burning building under control, the Camden Police Department said in a news […]
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U.S. sets record for COVID deaths and California confirms second case of highly infectious new strain
The U.S. set fresh records for one-day fatalities from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 and number of patients hospitalized on Thursday, as California became the second state after Colorado to find a case of the new COVID-19 variant that is racing across the U.K. A day after a man in his […]
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U.S. Sets Records for Newly Reported Covid-19 Infections, Deaths
LOS ANGELES — Intensive-care unit capacity in Southern California hit 0% on Thursday, the latest indication that the recent surge of Covid-19 cases could overwhelm the health-care system here. Although officials have said that hitting 0% doesn’t mean that no beds are available, Southern California’s ICU capacity has steadily eroded […]
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Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Sets Records for Newly Reported Infections, Deaths
LOS ANGELES — Intensive-care unit capacity in Southern California hit 0% on Thursday, the latest indication that the recent surge of Covid-19 cases could overwhelm the health-care system here. Although officials have said that hitting 0% doesn’t mean that no beds are available, Southern California’s ICU capacity has steadily eroded […]
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8,322 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, 47 additional deaths as worry over holiday weekend mounts (LIVE UPDATES)
Latest Lowest COVID-19 positivity rate in weeks, but Pritzker and Ezike worry about holiday ‘super-spreader events’ Pat Nabong/Sun-Times State public health officials reported 8,322 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 Monday as well as 47 additional deaths. As of Sunday night, 6,171 people with the virus were reported to […]
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Coronavirus Deaths, Job Losses Hit Pennsylvania Hardest of 2020 Battlegrounds
It hasn’t been a good year for John Stemler. The brew master and co-founder of Free Will Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County has had to lay off employees because of the coronavirus pandemic and figures his annual revenue will drop by 25%. “We’re being very careful about how we operate […]
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Despite hundreds of deaths a year, US trucks still aren’t required to have automatic emergency braking
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about self-driving technologies, what they are, and how they should be regulated. In many cases, Level 2 systems, which are just partially automated advanced driver aid systems (ADAS), can appear as if they are capable of driving a vehicle, and are often […]