When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I thought my phone was wrong when it showed the time as 7:45. So I checked my watch and my microwave—both 7:45. It was nearly dark out and not because it was dawn, but because the San Francisco sky was choked with wildfire smoke, turning the landscape a…
The Orange County Health Care Agency reported another 560 new cases of the coronavirus as of Monday, July 20. The cumulative total number of positive cases for Orange County has reached 29,986 since local testing began in March. It appears Orange County has nudged past Riverside County for having the second most total number of…
The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 415 new cases of the coronavirus and no new deaths as of Sunday, July 19. The cumulative total for Orange County cases is 29,426, with deaths at 492 since local testing began in March. The data on deaths in the county is compiled from death certificates or gathered…
NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Lisa Sparks, a member of the Orange County, Calif., Board of Education, about why she approves of the plan to reopen public schools without masks or social distancing. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: California's two largest school districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, both said yesterday that students will not be headed…
(CNN)A California county wants its kids back in schools no matter what -- and won't require masks or social distancing to get them there. The Orange County Board of Education in California approved …
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…