CLOSE Some states are moving slowly towards reopening their economies while others are moving more quickly to reopen. USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO – California was the first state in the U.S. to issue a stay-at-home order to combat the coronavirus and it seems determined to be the last one to open up.That was likely the impression…
An employee inside a restaurant waits for customers arriving for pickup in Alhambra, California on May 7, 2020.Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty ImagesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that restaurants in select counties can reopen on-site dining under specific restrictions. He said the state is now in its second stage of reopening, which means…
Republican Mike Garcia claimed victory Wednesday in the race for an open congressional seat north of Los Angeles, the first time the GOP has flipped a California district from blue to red in more than 20 years.Garcia, 44, a defense industry executive and former Navy fighter pilot, held a double-digit lead over Democratic state Assemblywoman…
California officials said Wednesday that 12 of the state’s 58 counties — most of them rural — will be allowed to more fully reopen.Amador, Butte, El Dorado, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Tuolumne, Yuba, Sutter and Shasta have been certified as meeting the state’s conditions for additional businesses to reopen.“This is a dynamic process, and…
Even as officials laid out more tentative plans to reopen California’s battered economy, there were growing signs Tuesday that life would not be getting back to normal any time soon.The 23-campus California State University system plans to all but cancel in-person classes in the fall and instead will offer instruction primarily online, with some limited…
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…