[aggregation-styles] The Fresno Bee SubscriptionFresno State wrestler Isaiah Tito Perez has been arrested on multiple felony charges including rape of a drugged victim. Perez was taken into custody by Fresno Police officers on Friday morning at his off-campus apartment and booked into the county jail with a bail set at...
Newsom Gambles With Abrupt COVID Reopening. Will It Ease Recall Threat?
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Gov. Gavin Newsom’s abrupt move to lift stay-at-home orders — allowing outdoor dining and other business activities to resume — represents a gamble that California can avoid another deadly coronavirus surge in the coming months despite a slow, frustrating rollout of the vaccine and the looming...
Republic Day 2021: Indian Farmers Ramp up Their Protest by Riding Tractors Into the Capital
[aggregation-styles] CNN New Delhi (CNN) Hundreds of thousands of farmers drove their tractors in convoy into the Indian capital New Delhi on Tuesday, as part of ongoing, nationwide protests against controversial agricultural laws that farmers say put their livelihoods at risk. Tear gas and flash bangs could been seen on...
Covid-Sniffing Dogs To Screen Fans at Miami Heat Games
[aggregation-styles] CBS Miami MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — The Miami Heat are turning to COVID-sniffing dogs to screen fans at the gates. The Heat been working on the plan for months, and the highly trained dogs have been in place for some games this season where the team has allowed a handful...
Disneyland to Update Jungle Cruise to be More Culturally Inclusive
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise has set sail in the park’s Adventureland area consistently since 1955 and stands today as one of the remaining opening day attractions overseen by Walt Disney himself. But culture often moves faster than decades-old mechanical hippos. On Monday, the Walt Disney Co. announced...
Governors’ Shutdowns Did Not Cause the Pandemic Jobs Crisis
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 416,000 Americans and recently pulled the U.S. economic recovery into reverse. Some states have shut down again to get a handle on surging caseloads. And critics have blamed those states’ governors, typically Democrats, for job losses. But pandemic-related economic...
Foreign Companies Are Giving up on the United States and Betting Big on China, Report Says
[aggregation-styles] CNN Foreign companies are turning their backs on the United States, taking advantage of China's booming economy and superior management of the Covid-19 pandemic. Direct investment in the US by foreign companies plummeted 49% to $134 billion last year, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nations...
California Has Its Own Coronavirus Variant, Researchers Reveal
[aggregation-styles] HuffPost The U.S. now has its very own COVID-19 variant and scientists believe the burgeoning strain is likely linked to the surge in cases in Los Angeles County. Two independent research groups discovered the strain in California while seeking the more contagious, possible more deadly, British variant in the...
MAGA Media Looks To Turn White House Briefing Room Into a Battlefield
[aggregation-styles] Politico Eric Bolling, the conservative host of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s “America This Week,” would travel regularly to Donald Trump’s White House, interviewing the former president seven times and occasionally attending press briefings. Trump’s now gone and Bolling is facing a vastly different professional landscape. The current president is not...
California Has Environmental Allies Once Again With Biden in the White House
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian California has led the resistance to Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back environmental regulations in the past four years, with the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filing a whopping 122 lawsuits challenging Trump administration rules, most of them focused on climate and public health. Now, following Joe...