SACRAMENTO — California's legislative leaders said Thursday they will let absent lawmakers vote on bills during the final month of the legislative session after at least seven people who work in the state Capitol became infected with the coronavirus, including one assemblyman who had to be hospitalized. The state Assembly...
US New Home Sales Jump 13.8% in June
WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes rose a sharp 13,8% in June, the second straight increase after two months when sales plunged as the country went into lockdown because of the coronavirus. The Commerce Department reported Friday that the June gain pushed sales of new homes to a seasonally adjusted...
California's No-Bail Policy Sees Man Arrested for Auto Theft 13 Times in 12 Weeks
[aggregation-styles] Fox News WASHINGTON — Yuanyuan Zhu was walking to her gym in San Francisco on March 9, thinking the workout could be her last for a while, when she noticed that a man was shouting at her. He was yelling an expletive about China. Then a bus passed, she...
Jordan's Prime Minister Says His Country Contained COVID-19 By 'Helping The Weakest'
[aggregation-styles] NPR Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz sits in the front room of his family home in a middle-class Amman neighborhood of traditional white stone houses with small gardens and low walls. Unusually, in a region where senior officials typically live in gated compounds far from public view, the residential...
Trump Cancels GOP National Convention Events in Florida
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has canceled segments of the Republican National Convention scheduled for Florida next month, citing a “flare-up” of the coronavirus. Convention events will still be held in North Carolina. “To have a big convention is not the right time," Trump said of...
'Not Made of This Earth' : Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Directed to Make Some Findings Public
[aggregation-styles] New York Times Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway and officials are continuing to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles. Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, yet it appeared last month in...
White House Drops Payroll Tax Cut After GOP Allies Object
WASHINGTON — The White House reluctantly dropped its bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes Thursday as Republicans prepared to unveil a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, yielding to opposition to the idea among top Senate allies. “It won’t be in the base bill," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking...
Virus Sends Jobless Claims up for First Time Since March
WASHINGTON — The viral pandemic's resurgence caused the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits to rise last week for the first time in nearly four months, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbreak is causing. The increase in weekly jobless claims to 1.4 million served to underscore the outsize role the...
Poll: 3 in 4 Americans Back Requiring Wearing Masks
LOS ANGELES — Three out of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, favor requiring people to wear face coverings while outside their homes, a new poll finds, reflecting fresh alarm over spiking coronavirus cases and a growing embrace of government advice intended to safeguard public health. The survey from The...
'Who Is Holding People Accountable?' Atascadero Man Says Roommate Infected 16 People With COVID-19
[aggregation-styles] KSBY An Atascadero man says his roommate infected their entire household after not telling anyone she tested positive for COVID-19. "My biggest concern -- who is holding people accountable for people who have disregard for human life?" asked William Satterfield. Satterfield is COVID-19 positive after he says his roommate...