[aggregation-styles] Driving With the COVID-19 pandemic now seemingly set to last for months on end, lead-footed drivers are taking to the United States’ empty streets to smash the illegal cross-country Cannonball Run record like never before. Since quarantines first started, seven different Cannonball records have allegedly been broken, which has...
Opinion: COVID-19’s Fifth Column — American Health Choices
COVID-19 is real, and it is vicious. It has killed tens of thousands of Americans. More will follow. But the disease isn’t acting alone. It has some unlikely co-conspirators. Millions, in fact. Dig into the grim statistics documenting deaths linked to the novel coronavirus and you’ll quickly grasp the significant contribution...
Disinfected Dice: Las Vegas Casinos Getting Ready to Roll
LAS VEGAS — Free parking, but no valet service. Bartenders, blackjack dealers and waiters wearing masks. Hand sanitizer everywhere. Yes, dice will roll, cards will be dealt and slot machines will beckon. But poker rooms? Closed. Tourists returning to Las Vegas will see changes since gambling stopped in mid-March for...
Don’t Worry About Spreading the Coronavirus With Cash
Some people worry that cash may be spreading the coronavirus. Earlier this year, both China and South Korea began sterilizing their bills using UV light or high heat before putting them back into use. They also quarantined their bank bills for 14 days in hopes that any lingering viruses would...
Fresno Jobless Rate Doubles as Economy Reopening Accelerates
Unemployment in the city of Fresno more than doubled to 15.5% in April as the full force of COVID-19 business shutdowns took hold around the Valley and across the state. Fresno's unemployment rate exactly matched the statewide rate, while the Clovis unemployment rate to 13.0%. Over 37,000 city of Fresno...
Trump Deems Churches ‘Essential,’ Calls for Them to Reopen
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he has deemed churches and other houses of worship “essential" and called on governors across the country to allow them to reopen this weekend despite the threat of spreading the coronavirus. “Today I’m identifying houses of worship — churches, synagogues and mosques...
Aircraft Carrier Returns to Sea After Coronavirus Outbreak
WASHINGTON — After nearly two months sidelined in Guam with a coronavirus outbreak, the USS Theodore Roosevelt has gone out to sea for training, in preparation to return to duty in the Pacific. Nearly 800 fighter squadron personnel from the Central Valley are aboard the carrier. The ship has been...
Ford Shuts Down Dearborn Truck Plant After Worker Tests Positive for Coronavirus
[aggregation-styles] Detroit Free Press Ford Motor Company shut down its Dearborn Truck Plant on Wednesday afternoon after learning a worker tested positive for coronavirus and released its early shift about 1:30 p.m. "They sent everybody home," said a UAW worker who asked not to be named for fear of disciplinary...
San Francisco Sanctions Once-Shunned Homeless Encampments
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is joining other U.S. cities in authorizing homeless tent encampments in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a move officials have long resisted but are now reluctantly embracing to safeguard homeless people. About 80 tents are now neatly spaced out on a wide street near San...
AP-NORC Poll: Many in US Won’t Return to Gym or Dining out
WASHINGTON — Much of the country remains unlikely to venture out to bars, restaurants, theaters or gyms anytime soon, despite state and local officials across the country increasingly allowing businesses to reopen, according to a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That hesitancy in the wake...