Black Friday shoppers pack centers as region reports rise
Onslow County records its 40th COVID 19 death as residents hit shopping centers for Black Friday deals. Officials say hospital resources are stretched and urge protective measures during the holiday weekend. Governor Cooper extends Phase 3 reopening through December 11 with more mask rules. At Walmart on U S 17 shoppers line up early. in person shopping remains a tradition for families despite higher case counts. Stores enforce mask use, directed traffic, sanitized carts, and entrance greeters to guide shoppers.
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States push pandemic relief as Washington stalls
Governors and lawmakers move to deliver aid to small businesses, the unemployed, renters and others hurt by the widening coronavirus outbreak. With federal relief near exhausted as year end nears, Democrats fault Washington while some Republicans join the urgency. Johns Hopkins data show daily U S cases surpassing 200,000 for the first time. total infections exceed 13 million since January. Democratic governors of Colorado and New Mexico held special sessions to address the emergency.
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Black firefighters in NC allege racism amid larger reckoning
In Winston-Salem four Black firefighters allege a hostile work environment fueled by white colleagues and a drug of inaction by Chief William Mayo. They filed a grievance in October seeking his firing and pointing to taunts on social media and in person as part of a wider national reckoning on racial injustice in fire departments.
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