This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe pop of a champagne bottle, then another, and another sounded from a table of three friends at the Pearl on a sunny afternoon last week. They’d just come from eating indoors at a North Side brunch spot, their masks and sanitizer out of sight.Itiel Huerta, 21, had quarantined for months to protect herself and her loved ones from COVID-19. But after a while, she said, the health precautions left her feeeling “depressed.”“To be honest, I just feel like we have no way around it at this point, so I just kind of have to live with...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe pop of a champagne bottle, then another, and another sounded from a table of three friends at the Pearl on a sunny afternoon last week. They’d just come from eating indoors at a North Side brunch spot, their masks and sanitizer out of sight.Itiel Huerta, 21, had quarantined for months to protect herself and her loved ones from COVID-19. But after a while, she said, the health precautions left her feeeling “depressed.”“To be honest, I just feel like we have no way around it at this point, so I just kind of have to live with...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoGift ShareMINNEAPOLIS — When protests broke out here last summer following George Floyd’s killing, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen was one of the few restaurants on its block that remained open. It became a community hub, feeding the hungry, distributing necessities like diapers and serving as a gathering spot for activists.So it was only natural that people flooded the popular restaurant when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd. Yes, they gathered to cheer Chauvin’s conviction on murder and...…This article was published more than 1 year agoGift ShareMINNEAPOLIS — When protests broke out here last summer following George Floyd’s killing, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen was one of the few restaurants on its block that remained open. It became a community hub, feeding the hungry, distributing necessities like diapers and serving as a gathering spot for activists.So it was only natural that people flooded the popular restaurant when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd. Yes, they gathered to cheer Chauvin’s conviction on murder and...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareThe Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island-style rapid-processing hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with a goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours, according to Department of Homeland Security draft plans obtained by The Washington Post.The plans show the Biden administration is racing to absorb a growing number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border amid shortages of bed space and personnel. Republicans and...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareThe Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island-style rapid-processing hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with a goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours, according to Department of Homeland Security draft plans obtained by The Washington Post.The plans show the Biden administration is racing to absorb a growing number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border amid shortages of bed space and personnel. Republicans and...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCARRIZO SPRINGS, Tex. — Dozens of migrant teens boarded vans Monday for the trip down a dusty road to a former man camp for oil field workers here, the first migrant child facility opened under the Biden administration.The emergency facility — a vestige of the Trump administration that was open for only a month in summer 2019 — is being reactivated to hold up to 700 children ages 13 to 17.Government officials say the camp is needed because facilities for migrant children have had to cut capacity by nearly half because of...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCARRIZO SPRINGS, Tex. — Dozens of migrant teens boarded vans Monday for the trip down a dusty road to a former man camp for oil field workers here, the first migrant child facility opened under the Biden administration.The emergency facility — a vestige of the Trump administration that was open for only a month in summer 2019 — is being reactivated to hold up to 700 children ages 13 to 17.Government officials say the camp is needed because facilities for migrant children have had to cut capacity by nearly half because of...WW…