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AMY FORLITI and JEFF BAENEN Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a handcuffed black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander's video showed the man pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced the firings on Twitter, saying "This is the right call." The man's death Monday night after he struggled with officers was under...
KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday cleared barbershops and hair salons to reopen in the majority of counties, including Riverside and San Diego, the latest move in his rapid relaxation of restrictions put in place more than two months ago in the battle against the coronavirus. "We're making progress, we're moving forward, we're not looking back - but we are walking into the unknown," Newsom said during a news...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - UC San Diego Health has provided mobile life support systems to multiple COVID-19 patients in the last three weeks, officials announced today, giving a chance to patients so ill that ventilators alone cannot sustain life. These patients require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, when ventilators prove not enough to keep them alive, health professionals said. "Patients who require ECMO are the sickest of the sick. They are beyond being kept alive by a ventilator and need full support to keep the...
LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is at a crossroads in the coronavirus crisis, wrestling over whether to "go big," as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants for the next relief bill, or hit "pause," as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists. It's a defining moment for the political parties heading toward the election and one that will affect the livelihoods of countless Americans suddenly dependent on the federal government. Billions of...
LONDON (AP) - J.K. Rowling is publishing a new story called "The Ickabog," which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The "Harry Potter" author said Tuesday she wrote the fairy tale for her children as a bedtime story over a decade ago. Set in an imaginary land, it is a stand-alone story "about truth and the abuse of power" for children from 7 to 9 years old and is unrelated to Rowling's other...
AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis was seen on a bystander's video pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck during the arrest and kept his knee there for several minutes after the man stopped moving. The death Monday night after a struggle with officers was under investigation by the FBI and state law enforcement authorities. It drew comparisons to the case of Eric Garner, an unar...
DINO HAZELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The husband of a woman who died accidentally in an office of then-GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough two decades ago is demanding that Twitter remove President Donald Trump's tweets suggesting Scarborough, now a fierce Trump critic, murdered her. "My request is simple: Please delete these tweets," Timothy J. Klausutis wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The body of Lori Kaye Klausutis, 28, was found in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, congressional office on July 20, 2001. K...
KATHY GANNON and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government released hundreds of Taliban prisoners Tuesday, its single largest prisoner release since the U.S. and the Taliban signed a peace deal earlier this year that spells out an exchange of detainees between the warring sides. The government announced it would release 900 Taliban prisoners as a three-day cease-fire with the insurgents draws to an end. The Taliban had called for the truce during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr that mark...
NEW YORK (AP) — The verbal dispute between a white woman walking her dog and a black man bird watching in Central Park might normally have gone unnoticed in a city preoccupied by the coronavirus pandemic. That changed when birdwatcher Christian Cooper pulled out his phone and captured Amy Cooper calling police to report she was being threatened by "an African-American man." The widely watched video — posted on Facebook by Christian Cooper and on Twitter by his sister — has sparked accusations of racism. The confr...
MATT OTT, TED SHAFFREY and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange reopened Tuesday in a largely symbolic step toward economic recovery, and stocks surged at the opening bell, even as the official U.S. death toll closed in on 100,000, a mark President Donald Trump once predicted the country would never see. With infections mounting rapidly in places like Brazil and India, a top global health official warned that the crisis around the world is far from over. The NYSE t...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures will soar well into the triple digits in the San Diego County deserts today and the blazing conditions are not expected to let up until this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. Building high pressure over Southern California will keep temperatures warm throughout the county until Friday, with Wednesday and Thursday expected to be the hottest days of the week in desert areas, forecasters said. The NWS issued an excessive heat...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - Authorities asked for public assistance to find a 34-year-old man who was reported missing today in Escondido. Kyle Meekins was last seen about 11:30 a.m. in the in the 2200 block of Puesta Del Sol, according to The San Diego County Sheriff's Department. According to the sheriff's department, Meekins doesn't have a cell phone and doesn't know how to operate a vehicle. Meekins is white. He stands 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds with brown...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County has reported another 96 cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths, bringing the county's total to 6,797 cases and 249 deaths as statewide stay-at-home orders begin to loosen. The total number of cases requiring hospitalization is 1,244 and cases requiring intensive care are 370, the County Health and Human Services Agency reported. Of the 3,700 tests reported to the county Sunday, 96 were positive new cases. The 14-day rolling-average...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A 25-year-old man died after he walked against a stop signal at an Oceanside intersection and was struck by an approaching car, police said today. The accident happened around 10:30 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of State Route 76 and College Boulevard, according to Oceanside Police Department Sgt. Rick Davis. Witnesses said the driver of the car traveled east on SR 76 and the traffic signal was green when the driver approached the intersection. The...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Gov. Gavin Newsom issued guidance today to houses of worship in California on how they can safely reopen amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Under the guidelines, places of worship must limit attendance to 25% of building capacity or 100 attendees, whichever is lower. This limitation will be in effect for the first 21 days of a county public health department's approval of religious services within their jurisdictions, after which the California Department of Public Health will review the limits. They must...
DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - With Brazil emerging as one of the world's most infected countries, President Jair Bolsonaro is deflecting all responsibility for the coronavirus crisis, casting blame on mayors, governors, an outgoing health minister and the media. By contrast, he portrays himself as a clear-eyed crusader willing to defend an unpopular idea - that shutting down the economy to control COVID-19 will ultimately cause more suffering than allowin...
MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It's back to the future as NASA astronauts launch again from the U.S. - aboard a retro-style "Right Stuff" capsule. Make no mistake: This is not your father's - or grandfather's - capsule. SpaceX's Dragon crew capsule outshines NASA's old Apollo spacecraft in virtually every way. The Dragon's clean lines and minimalist interior, with touchscreens instead of a mess of switches and knobs, make even the space shuttles...
ERIC OLSON Associated Press Vicki L. Friedman always wanted to play golf with her adult sons but until this spring couldn't find time to learn the game and practice. Shaun Warkentin was looking for a diversion when his young sons tired of jumping on the backyard trampoline and being indoors. He discovered the joy of taking them fishing. Neighborhood and park trails across the country have been getting higher-than-usual use by runners, walkers and bicyclists as people find...
STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The coronavirus hasn't been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of COVID-19, their sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs are parked unattended on the streets, making them easy targets for opportunistic thieves. Despite silent streets and nearly nonexistent traffic, vehicle larcenies shot up 63% in New York and nearly 17% in Los Angeles from Jan. 1 through mid-May, compared with the same...
JONATHAN DREW Associated Press President Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if the state's Democratic governor doesn't immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trump's tweets about the upcoming RNC in Charlotte come two days after North Carolina's largest daily increase in virus cases yet. On Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper moved the state into a second reopening phase by loosening restrictions on hair salon...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump honored America's fallen service members on Monday as he commemorated Memorial Day in back-to-back appearances in the midst of the pandemic. "Together we will vanquish the virus and America will rise from this crisis to new and even greater heights," Trump said during a ceremony at Baltimore's historic Fort McHenry. "No obstacle, no challenge and no threat is a match for the sheer determination of the American people." Earlier, Trump silently h...
WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance in more than two months on Monday as he marked Memorial Day by laying a wreath at a veterans park near his Delaware home. Since abruptly canceling a March 10 rally in Cleveland at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has waged much of his campaign from his home in Wilmington. When Biden emerged on Monday, he wore a face mask, in contrast to President Donald Trump, who has refus...
AMY FORLITI, R.J. RICO and SARA BURNETT Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Americans marked a Memorial Day like no other Monday as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations and forced communities to honor the nation's military dead with smaller, more subdued ceremonies like car convoys and online tributes instead of parades. On the weekend that marks the unofficial start of summer, U.S. authorities warned beach-goers to heed social-distancing rules to avoid a resurgence of the disease that has infected 5.4 m...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Some 1.3 million Roman Catholics in the San Diego County diocese are being invited to attend in-person Masses as early June 8 after closing for COVID-19 in mid-March, church officials said this weekend. Parishes may adopt different logistics, such as indoors, outdoors or a hybrid. The announcement comes as churches statewide looked forward to guidance today from Gov. Gavin Newsom on how they can safely reopen. "After a great deal of discussion, we concluded...
MARIAM FAM Associated Press WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — With no congregational prayers or family gatherings, Salsabiel Mujovic has been worried that this year's Eid al-Fitr celebration will pale. Still, she's determined to bring home holiday cheer amid the coronavirus gloom. Her family can't go to the mosque, but the 29-year-old New Jersey resident bought new outfits for herself and her daughters. They are praying at home and having a family photo session. The kids are decorating cookies in a virtual gathering, and popping b...
