Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Facing the most disruptive pandemic in generations, the technocratic halls of the World Health Organization are now the scene of pitched battles in an increasingly bitter proxy war between the China and the United States. At the U.N. health agency's annual assembly this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined by video conference to offer more money and support. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump railed against the WHO in a letter accusing it of covering up t...
LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for perhaps one of the larger social gatherings still happening in Washington amid the coronavirus — the weekly Senate Republican lunch. Behind closed doors, Trump was unscripted and freewheeling with the 53 GOP senators. He touted his poll numbers, dismissed rival Joe Biden and implored Republicans to "be tough" against Democrats this fall. Despite House passage of a $3 trillion pandemic aid package, Rep...
DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Lauer accused author Ronan Farrow on Tuesday of shoddy and biased journalism in his book "Catch and Kill" that included what Lauer says is a false accusation that the former "Today" show host raped a co-worker. Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer at The New Yorker, said Lauer "is just wrong." Lauer penned an article published on the Mediaite website a day after an investigation in The New York Times suggested that Farrow, who won a Pulitzer for his work on the a...
ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to cover a $54.3 billion budget deficit includes slashing millions in spending that keep more than 45,000 people out of nursing homes — some of a series of cuts targeting older adults who are among the most at risk for the new coronavirus. The proposed cuts have angered state lawmakers from both major political parties who say it's irresponsible in light of the coronavirus pandemic that has spread through nursing homes across the state. It's one...
MICHELLE R. SMITH, COLLEEN LONG and JEFF AMY Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Public health officials in some states are accused of bungling coronavirus infection statistics or even using a little sleight of hand to deliberately make things look better than they are. The risk is that politicians, business owners and ordinary Americans who are making decisions about lockdowns, reopenings and other day-to-day matters could be left with the impression that the virus is under more control than it actually is. In Virginia,...
ZEKE MILLER, MARILYNN MARCHIONE and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump emphatically defended himself Tuesday against criticism from medical experts that his announced use of a malaria drug against the coronavirus could spark wide misuse by Americans of the unproven treatment with potentially fatal side effects. Trump's revelation a day earlier that he was taking hydroxychloroquine caught many in his administration by surprise and set off an urgent effort by officials to justify his a...
MICHAEL BIESECKER and JASON DEAREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting "pro-Trump" doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The plan was discussed in a May 11 conference call with a senior staffer for the Trump reelection campaign organized by CNP Action, an affiliate of the G...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Property crime in San Diego County reached a new 40- year low in 2019, according to a report released today. Property crime rates had also reached a 40-year low in 2018, but kept dropping in 2019 to set a new mark, according to the San Diego Association of Governments' Criminal Justice Research Division. The agency's report, "Forty Years of Crime in the San Diego Region: 1980 Through 2019,'' found that although the region's population has increased 80% over the past 40 years, the relative number of reported... Full story
CAMP PENDLETON (CNS) - Firefighters this morning halted the spread of a blaze that burned roughly 150 acres of brush in a training area on Camp Pendleton, authorities said. The Marine Corps base first reported an eight-acre fire around 7:50 p.m. Monday. By 10:15 p.m., the blaze had grown to 50 acres and was 20% contained. Sheriff's officials reported that smoke from the fire may have been visible in Fallbrook and Vista. Shortly before 1 a.m., base officials reported that the forward spread of the blaze had been stopped. As... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors will meet today to discuss various issues related to reopening the county, including a $34 million economic stimulus package designed to assist local businesses. The Economic and Humanitarian Stimulus Package, proposed by Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Diane Jacob, includes $17 million "for implementing economic stimulus programs for restaurants and small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,'' $15 million for behavioral health services and $2 million for... Full story
JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The University of California is imposing a system-wide freeze on salaries of its non-unionized employees due to enormous financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, President Janet Napolitano said Monday. Napolitano is taking a 10% voluntary pay cut, as are the system's 10 chancellors, she said in a statement that was sent to faculty and staff systemwide. She said her office has initiated conversations with union...
MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - California Republicans have been waiting for a turning point and some think it's finally arrived. The party of Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan has been fading in California for years: Democrats control every statewide office, dominate the Legislature and hold all but eight of the state's 53 U.S. House seats. The GOP's deficit in voter registrations: a staggering 4.4 million. But the victory last week of a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Gusty winds will continue today in the San Diego County mountains and deserts, while temperatures cool throughout the county, according to the National Weather Service. A Pacific storm moving inland through central California is the driving force behind the gusty conditions and cooler temperatures, forecasters said. A wind advisory will last until 9 a.m. today in the mountains and deserts. Winds out of the west will be 20-30 mph today, with gusts possibly reaching 45 mph this afternoon near desert slopes...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The average price of a gallon of self-serve gasoline in San Diego County rose today for the eighth consecutive day and 11th in the past 12 following a run of 59 decreases in 63 days totaling 75.8 cents. The average price rose six-tenths of a cent to $2.833, according to figures released by the AAA and Oil Price Information Service Tuesday. It has increased 5.8 cents over the past 12 days, including two-tenths of a cent on Monday. The average price is 3.3 cents more than one week ago but 1.7 cents less than... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - In an effort to combat recent incidents in Santee of people in grocery stores using their COVID-19 face coverings to display symbols of racism and hate as well as the increase of other hateful incidents, San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher today will propose the creation of a human relations commission to the Board of Supervisor. "In the last several years, divisive rhetoric, hate speech and outward acts of violence have been on the rise across the United States, and while no community is ever immune... Full story
SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) - The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found. But with life and heat-trapping gas levels inching back toward normal, the brief pollution break will likely be "a drop in the ocean" when it comes to climate change, scientists said. In their study of carbon dioxide emissions during the coronavirus pandemic, an international team of scientists...
ALEX VEIGA and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers Stocks are mixed in midday trading on Wall Street Tuesday, a day after the market had its biggest jump in more than five weeks. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% after wavering between gains and losses for much of the day. Technology stocks rose, offsetting losses in health care companies, banks and elsewhere in the market. Bond yields mostly fell, a sign that investors were feeling cautious. Investors are betting that the economy and corporate profits will begin to recover from the...
LARRY NEUMEISTER and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's Democratic Party leadership gave up trying to cancel the state's June 23 presidential primary Tuesday after an appeals court rejected arguments that holding it during the coronavirus pandemic would endanger public safety. Douglas A. Kellner, co-chair of the State Board of Elections, said he and the board's commissioner would not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the ruling by the three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of A...
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, ELENA BECATOROS and NICK PERRY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — As the coronavirus outbreak eases in Western Europe and parts of the U.S., cases are rising steadily in Russia in a crisis that has damaged President Vladimir Putin's standing and stirred suspicion that the true death toll in the country is being concealed. Russia is now behind only the United States in the number of reported infections. Cases are also spiking in such places as India, South Africa and Mexico. On Tuesday, new hot spots e...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Fed's lending programs for medium-sized businesses and state and local governments would begin operating by the end of this month. Powell said that while the Fed has received a "good deal of interest" in those programs, if not enough companies or state and local governments seek to borrow the Fed would consider changes to them. That could include expanding their eligibility. The c...
FALLBROOK - A fire in a Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton training area scorched more than 100 acres and caused an obvious smell of smoke in Fallbrook and other parts of North County as far south as Escondido before firefighters were able to stop its spread early Tuesday morning. Camp Pendleton officials first reported the fire at 7:50 p.m. Monday. At the time, it was described as having burned roughly eight acres in a training area of the Marine Corps base. Base officials...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - More than $75 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds will assist health care providers in North County San Diego and South Orange County to help cover costs incurred as a result of the pandemic, it was announced today by Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano. The funding includes $39.2 million for the University of California San Diego Medical Center, $6.75 million for Tri-City Hospital, $6.14 million for Scripps Green Hospital and $6.45 million for Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. "As we continue to...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Viejas Casino and Resort in Alpine welcomed a capacity crowd and a line out the door today as the first of four tribal casinos to open this week despite coronavirus stay-at-home rules keeping some other businesses shuttered. Viejas and the other casinos are on tribal land, meaning they are not subject to the same state regulations that have limited other business operations in California. Sycuan Casino Resort plans to reopen Wednesday, Jamul Casino Thursday...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Diane Jacob announced today they will introduce a $34 million economic stimulus package designed to assist local businesses struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed Economic and Humanitarian Stimulus Package from federal CARES Act funding would also be used for more behavioral health and child welfare services. The proposal includes $17 million "for implementing economic stimulus programs for restaurants and small businesses impacted by the...
NATIONAL CITY (CNS) - The owner of a ticket with all six numbers in the latest SuperLotto Plus drawing sold at a National City 7-Eleven store has not come forward, the California Lottery announced today. The owner has 180 days from the date of the ticket's purchase to claim the $28 million prize. The drawing was the 22nd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The numbers drawn Saturday night were 3, 9, 23, 27, 35 and the Mega number was 16. The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1...
