11 Bay Area Counties to relax mask wearing mandates; Lawmakers consider impacts of drone strikes; California Governor signs pandemic paid sick leave into law

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• Trucker blockade in Ottawa continues, in opposition to pandemic related restrictions.
• Continued push back to R.N.C.’s censure resolution calling capitol insurrection “legitimate political discourse.”
• Biden administration readying to relax pandemic era guidelines.
• 11 Bay Area Counties to relax mask wearing mandates.
• California Governor signs pandemic paid sick leave into law.
• Lawmakers consider impacts of drone strikes.
• Bicameral bill to ban Congress, Supreme Court, and President from individual stock trading introduced.
• Oakland Unified School District votes to close and or merge nearly 2 dozen schools.

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