LOS ANGELES — A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last Sunday's NFC championship game between the 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams, authorities said Friday. A 33-year-old man was arrested for investigation...
House Passes Bill to Boost US Computer Chip Production
Democrats muscled through legislation in the House on Friday that they say positions the United States to better compete with China economically and on the global stage by strengthening the domestic semiconductor industry and shoring up strained supply chains. The bill passed by a vote of 222-210. It marks...
COVID Falling in 49 of 50 States as Deaths Near 900,000
New cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states as omicron rapidly loosens its grip, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,000. The number of lives lost to the pandemic in the U.S. stood at about 899,000...
Emboldened China Opens Olympics, With Lockdown and Boycotts
China, which used its first Olympics to amplify its international aspirations, invited the world back Friday — sort of — for the pandemic era’s second Games, this time as an emboldened and more powerful nation whose government’s authoritarian turn provoked some countries’ leaders into staying home. Chinese President Xi Jinping...
US Economy Defies Omicron and Adds 467,000 Jobs in January
In a surprising burst of hiring, America’s employers added a robust 467,000 jobs last month, a sign of the economy’s resilience in the face of a wave of omicron infections. The government's report Friday also drastically revised up its estimate of job gains for November and December by a combined 709,000....
California Court Clears the Deck for More Affordable Housing
SAN DIEGO — Developers who include affordable housing in their projects are exempt from many local limits on height, zoning, and density, a California appeals court ruled in a decision that, if upheld, could have an immense impact as the most populous state struggles with a housing crisis. California's...
Spike Lee to Direct Colin Kaepernick Docu-Series for ESPN
LOS ANGELES — Spike Lee will direct a multi-part documentary for ESPN on Colin Kaepernick that features extensive interviews with the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and access to his personal archive. ESPN Films announced Tuesday that Lee would weave never-before-seen footage from Kaepernick's archive to provide “a full,...
Arrest Made After Street Racing Crash Kills 19-Year-Old Bakersfield Woman
A 19-year-old Bakersfield woman was killed Wednesday when her vehicle was struck by a car involved in an illegal street race, police said. The driver of a Ford Mustang was racing a motorcyclist around 6:20 p.m. when the Mustang crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into another vehicle,...
Charges: Nurses Made $1.5 Million off Fake Vaccination Cards
Two nurses on Long Island are accused of forging COVID-19 vaccination cards and pocketing more than $1.5 million from the scheme, prosecutors and police said. Julie DeVuono, the owner of Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, and her employee, Marissa Urraro, are both charged with felony forgery, and DeVuono...
Army to Immediately Start Discharging Vaccine Refusers
The Army said Wednesday it will immediately begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, putting more than 3,300 service members at risk of being thrown out soon. The Army's announcement makes it the final military service to lay out its discharge policy for vaccine refusers....