NEW DELHI — India registered 78,761 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the biggest single-day spike in the world since the pandemic began, just as the government began easing restrictions to help the battered economy. The surge raised India's tally to over 3.5 million, and came as the government announced the...
Gaga’s Masks, Weeknd’s Advocacy and More Top Vmas Moments
The MTV Video Music Awards got a little creative trying to put on a somewhat live awards show from New York City in the middle of a pandemic. Sunday's show included performances with mask-wearing artists and fans and artists dancing in front the backdrop of the city's skyscrapers. But amid the...
Walters: Do Crises Help or Hurt Tax Hikes?
Does the trauma enveloping California this year — pandemic, recession, heat waves, blackouts and disastrous wildfires — make voters more or less likely to vote for tax increases? Sponsors of a $12 billion a year hike in taxes on warehouses, office buildings, factories and other commercial property hope it’s more....
US Consumer Spending Rose a Moderate 1.9% in July
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers increased their spending by 1.9% last month, a dose of support for an economy struggling to emerge from the grip of a pandemic that has held back a recovery and kept roughly 27 million people jobless. The July gain marked the third straight monthly increase in...
These Fresno County Schools May Be The First to Open for Students
Two small Sierra schools seeking to reopen for classes on campus might get their wish as early as next week, Fresno County interim health officer Dr. Rais Vohra said Friday. Big Creek Elementary and Hume Lake Charter School officials are asking to be excused from the July state mandate that...
Valley Foster Farms Plant To Shut Down After Deadly COVID Outbreak
A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Livingston has been ordered to shut down after it became the site of one of the largest and most severe COVID-19 outbreaks in the state, health officials said. The order to close the plant came after at least 358 employees tested positive and...
Eviction Deal Extends California Protections Into 2021
SACRAMENTO — Californians who can't pay rent because of the coronavirus could stay in their homes through at least Jan. 31, but only if they pay a portion of some missed payments under a proposal endorsed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders. The California court system has...
These Clovis Unified Kids Will Be Back at School Starting Monday
Some of Clovis Unified School District's most needy students will return to school starting Monday, spokeswoman Kelly Avants says. About 300 severely disabled students of all ages and preschoolers and kindergartners enrolled in the Program for the Acquisition of Language and Social Skills will come individually to campus no more...
Trump Lashes Biden, Defies Pandemic on White House Stage
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House. While the coronavirus kills 1,000 Americans each day, Trump defied his own administration’s pandemic guidelines to speak for more than an hour...
Harris: Nationwide Mask Mandate Wouldn’t Carry Punishment
WASHINGTON — Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said Friday “nobody’s going to be punished” if she and running mate Joe Biden implement the nationwide mask mandate they have called for during the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s really a standard. I mean, nobody’s gonna be punished. Come on,” the California...