A two-day-old wildfire has grown to 14,000 acres during a red-flag warning in Lassen County. The Gold Fire, which started shortly after noon Monday, was listed at 8,500 acres on Tuesday evening and had burned almost 6,000 more acres by 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Lassen-Modoc unit of the California Department of Forestry and…
WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had not recommended the general closure of public schools in the spring when panicked governors and local officials shuttered schools across the land. These high-minded officials -- read Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak -- weren't listening to "the science," as they claimed. At the time, CDC guidelines…
As coronavirus cases continue to surge, officials across Southern California have opted to close the vast majority of beaches during the Fourth of July weekend over fears that holiday crowds could make the state’s already critical outbreak even worse.Los Angeles County was the first to decide to close its shores. Initially, many Orange County communities…
(CNN)Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned Sunday that the "window is closing" for the United States to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, as confirmed cases are surging in a …
Home Two Palm Springs bars were closing their doors due to an employee testing positive for coronavirus. Hunters Nightclub and Streetbar in Palm Springs will be closed until further notice. All employees who were close or in contact with the infected employee will have to get tested as well as quarantine for 14-days. Both bars…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…