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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAVID EGGERT Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Department of Education is attempting to take pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert the money to private schools, California and four other Democratic-led states argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Trump administration. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the lawsuit, which was joined by Maine, New Mexic...
LEAH WILLINGHAM and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — At least eight Mississippi lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after working for weeks in a Capitol where many people stood or sat close together and did not wear masks. Among those who have publicly acknowledged having COVID-19 are Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, who presides over the Senate, and House Speaker Philip Gunn. The state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said Tuesday there are also at least 11 other suspected cases of the v...
GEOFF MULVIHILL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients climbs. A national nursing union is concerned that gear has to be reused. A doctors association warns that physicians' offices are closed because they cannot get masks and other supplies. And...
COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched an all-out effort to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for political reasons against the will of families. "We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. The moms want it, the dads want it, the kids want it. It's time to do it," Trump said at a White House event. "We're very much gong to put pressure on governors a...
MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, although the pullout won't take effect until next year, meaning it could be rescinded under a new administration or if circumstances change. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said he would reverse the decision on his first day in office if elected. The...
LARRY NEUMEISTER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump's niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday that credits a "perfect storm of catastrophes" for exposing the president at his worst. Mary L. Trump, a psychologist, writes that the coronavirus pandemic, the possibility of an economic depression and deepening social divides have brought out the "worst effects" of Donald Trump's...
CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) - Researchers say a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs and is rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean environments on earth. A study from the University of Hawaii and others says the seaweed is spreading more rapidly than anything they've seen in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, a nature reserve that stretches more than 1,300 miles north of the...
LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. general for the Middle East said Tuesday that the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths. Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command said in a telephone interview with a small group of reporters that the U.S. did not increase force protection...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's small business lending program has benefited millions of companies, with the goal of minimizing the number of layoffs Americans have suffered in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the recipients include many you probably wouldn't have expected. Kanye West's clothing line. The sculptor Jeff Koons. Law firms and high-dollar hedge funds. The Girl Scouts. Political groups on both the left and right....
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved an inaugural automatic aid agreement between the Riverside County Fire Department and the San Diego County Fire Authority, under which each agency will be expected to lend a hand during wildfires and other emergencies within a few miles of the county line. In a 5-0 vote without comment, the board authorized the compact until June 30, 2025, when it will expire, or the parties decide to continue it. "Riverside County and the San Diego County Fire...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors reported Tuesday. The case needs independent verification and it's way too soon to speculate about a possible cure, scientists cautioned. "These are exciting findings but they're very preliminary," said Dr....
MARCELO DE SOUSA and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the coronavirus's severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country. The 65-year-old populist who has been known to mingle in crowds without covering his face confirmed the results while wearing a mask and speaking to reporters huddled close in front of him in the capital, Brasilia. He said he is taking hydroxychloroquine, the a...
WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is promising to shift production of medical equipment and other key pandemic-fighting products "back to U.S. soil," creating jobs and bolstering a domestic supply chain he says has been exposed as inadequate and vulnerable by the coronavirus outbreak. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's campaign released a plan Tuesday to reinforce stockpiles of a "range of critical products on which the U.S. is dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers" in places like...
KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is setting a brisk pace lately in issuing executive orders and he's just getting started as he tries to position himself as a man of action on everything from foreign policy to racial justice in an election year. The impact of some of the orders, though, is less than meets the eye. Trump has so far issued 33 executive orders this year, though he was a critic of such actions when running for office. He's on pace to exceed his high of 55 executive orders is...
STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most of Wall Street is slipping in midday trading on Tuesday, giving back some of the big gains made the past couple weeks, but a handful of tech giants bucked the trend and kept the market's losses in check. Seven out of 10 stocks in the S&P 500 were dropping, and the index was 0.1% lower, as of noon Eastern time. Stocks sank more in France, Germany and elsewhere after the European Union's executive arm said this year's recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be deeper t...
JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Governors who ordered shutdowns as their states responded to the coronavirus pandemic were among millions of beneficiaries of the loan program created to help small businesses weather COVID-19's effect on the economy, data released Monday show. The governors of at least eight states have ties to companies that received loans through the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program. Both Republicans and Democrats, their associated companies' loans ranged f...
COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be "fully operational" even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Anything less, she says, would fail students and taxpayers. DeVos made the comments during a call with governors as the Trump administration launched an all-out effort to get schools and colleges to reopen. Audio of the call was obtained by The Associated Press. "Ultimately,...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Dodgers will open the coronavirus-delayed season July 23 against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium, Major League Baseball announced. The scheduled 7:08 p.m. game -- one of two to be played on that date -- will follow a 4:08 p.m. interleague game between the defending World Series champion Washington Nationals and New York Yankees. Both games will be televised exclusively by ESPN. Government directives prohibiting large gatherings...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - After two weeks of rising COVID-19 cases, San Diego County public health officials today ordered a halt to all indoor operations in businesses such as bars, restaurants, museums, zoos, cardrooms, theaters and family entertainment centers, effective at midnight. Restaurants that are open with dine-in indoor service cannot allow any new customers inside past 10 p.m. Monday, and all customers must be off the premises by 11 p.m. Outdoor dining will still be...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - With the county now on the state's coronavirus watch list thanks to the rising rate of positive cases, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he anticipates local health officials acting shortly to comply with recently enacted ordered, including the closure of indoor dining spaces. The county was officially added to the state's monitoring list -- which now includes 23 counties across the state -- over the weekend, primarily due to the region's rising rate of cases... Full story
Firefighters were working to contain a small brush fire Monday in Bonsall. The blaze, near West Lilac Road and Via Ararat Drive, was reported at 11:35 p.m., according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. Crews arriving at the scene found the fire burning about a quarter of an acre, with a moderate rate of spread, Choi said. The fire's spread had been stopped by about noon. Cal Fire San Diego crews also responded to the fire. Will Fritz can be reached by email at...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, delivered in that city in 1852. Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Police were continuing their investigation Monday and no arrests had been made, according to a department spokesperson. The statue was found at the brink o...
MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred Monday to New York to face charges that she recruited women and girls, one as young as 14, for him to sexually abuse, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed. Prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a Friday court appearance in Manhattan federal court for for Maxwell, 58, who was arrested last week at a $1 million estate she had purchased in New Hampshire. Maxwell, the daughter of B...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department on Monday released the names of more than 650,000 companies that received funds from the government's small business lending program, a massive effort intended to support the economy as states shut down in April to contain the viral outbreak. Treasury identified just a fraction of the total borrowers, naming only those companies that got more than $150,000. Those firms made up less than 15% of the nearly 5 million small c...
JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a weekend spent stoking division, President Donald Trump on Monday blasted NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the sport's only Black driver, Bubba Wallace, of perpetrating "a hoax" involving a rope shaped like a noose in his garage. Exploiting racial tensions, Trump suggested Wallace should apologize after one of his crew members discovered the rope in a garage stall they had been assigned to. Federal authorities ruled last month that the rope h...
