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  • 1,030 new coronavirus cases in San Diego County over weekend

    City News Service|Updated Jul 6, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County updated its COVID-19 totals today, adding 1,030 positive cases over the weekend for a total of 16,726. There were no deaths reported Saturday or Sunday and the region's total remains at 387, health officials said. On Friday, 468 new cases were reported and another 562 were reported Saturday.. Cases requiring hospitalization totaled 1,899 and hospitalized cases admitted to an intensive care unit totaled 510. On Friday, 7,321 tests were reporte...

  • Justices rule states can bind presidential electors' votes

    Updated Jul 6, 2020

    MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states' popular vote winner in the Electoral College. The ruling, in cases in Washington state and Colorado just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner, as electors almost always do anyway. So-called faithless electors have not been critical to the o...

  • Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge virus can spread in air

    Updated Jul 6, 2020

    LONDON (AP) — More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air — a change that could alter some of the current measures being taken to stop the pandemic. In a letter published this week in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, two scientists from Australia and the U.S. wrote that studies have shown "beyond any reasonable doubt that viruses are released during exhalation, talking and coughing in microdroplets small enough to rem...

  • Firefighters douse car fire that spread to brush in De Luz

    Will Fritz, Associate Editor|Updated Jul 6, 2020

    Firefighters were able to tackle a car fire that spread to nearby vegetation in De Luz early this morning. The blaze was reported just before 4:30 a.m. along Sandia Creek Drive more than a mile north of Rock Mountain Drive, according to information from North County Fire Capt. John Choi. Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters found the car that originated the fire was unoccupied, and flames had spread to an approximately 20-by-20-foot spot of brush, Choi said. Crews from...

  • Debates turn emotional as schools decide how and if to open

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    PATRICK WHITTLE and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — School districts across America are in the midst of making wrenching decisions over how to resume classes in settings radically altered by the coronavirus pandemic, with school buses running below capacity, virtual learning, outdoor classrooms and quarantine protocols for infected children the new norm. The plans for the upcoming school year are taking shape by the day, and vary district to district, state to state. The debates have been highly emoti...

  • Kansas newspaper's post equates mask mandate with Holocaust

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governor's order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. The cartoon on the Anderson County Review's Facebook page depicts Gov. Laura Kelly wearing a mask with a Jewish Star of David on it, next to a drawing of people being loaded onto train cars. Its caption is, "Lockdow...

  • Israeli leader's son takes center stage in corruption sagas

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — As scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands trial for corruption, his 28-year-old son has emerged as a driving force in a counterattack against critics and the state institutions prosecuting the longtime Israeli leader. A favorite of the prime minister's nationalistic base and far right leaders around the world, Yair Netanyahu has become a fixture in the news, clashing with journalists on social media, threatening lawsuits against his father's adversaries and p...

  • Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government's new trade pact. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about foreign policy at a roundtable in south Florida. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler toured parts of Michigan and Wisconsin, where he boasted of the Trump administration's efforts to clean up the Great Lakes. And just this p...

  • Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice. These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions. A...

  • Naked men and drunks: England assesses the reopening of pubs

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It seems to have been more like a typical Saturday night than a drunken New Year's Eve. The reopening of pubs in England does not seem to have overwhelmed emergency services as many had feared ahead of the biggest easing of Britain's coronavirus lockdown. But one senior police officer said Sunday it was "crystal clear" that drunk people struggled, or ignored, social distancing rules. For the most part, people appeared to abide by the rules and rejoiced at the chance Saturday to lift a...

  • Democrats, Biden look to accelerate Southern political shift

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan push across the South is chipping away at reminders of the Civil War and Jim Crow segregation. Now, during a national reckoning on racism, Democratic Party leaders want those symbolic changes to become part of a fundamental shift at the ballot box. Many Southern electorates are getting younger, less white and more urban, and thus less likely to embrace P...

  • 3-vehicle crash reported in Valley Center early Sunday; alcohol possibly a factor, CHP says

    City News Service|Updated Jul 5, 2020

    VALLEY CENTER (CNS) - Alcohol may have contributed to a three-vehicle crash in Valley Center, authorities said. The incident occurred at Miller and Misty Oak roads at 1:51 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. It's unclear whether anyone needed medical attention, but one of the vehicles did flip over, according to a CHP officer. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department was asked to assist with the investigation, a department dispatcher confirme...

  • North County Fire responds to 5 separate fires on July 4

    Will Fritz, Associate Editor|Updated Jul 4, 2020

    At least five separate small fires were reported in the Fallbrook area on the July 4 holiday. None of the fires impacted structures. While North County Fire Protection District Capt. John Choi could not confirm whether any of the fires were caused by fireworks, he did say that possibility was under investigation for at least two of the blazes, both of which were reported after dark. The first fire to be reported on Saturday was a small vegetation fire located just east of...

  • Firefighters quickly deal with Rainbow fire

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    RAINBOW — A brush fire broke out Saturday in Rainbow near the southbound offramp of Interstate 15 at Rainbow Canyon Road, first reported by North County Fire at 12:20 p.m. Initially, reports indicated that the fire had spread to a quarter of an acre and one structure was threatened, but reports by 1 p.m. indicated the fire had been contained by firefighters to about one acre. Fire crews are on the scene mop up the remnants of the fire....

  • California counties warned: Enforce virus rules this holiday

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    JOHN ANTCZAK and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - California counties that fail to enforce health orders could lose state funding, the governor warned as cases of the coronavirus jumped, prompting renewed closures of businesses and beaches heading into the Fourth of July weekend. With hospitalizations and infection rates rising, Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the three-week closures of bars, indoor restaurant dining areas and other indoor venues for 21 of 58...

  • More fireworks in Americans' hands for July 4 raises risks

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - For many Americans, the Fourth of July will be more intimate this year. It also could be riskier. Saturday will be unlike any Independence Day in recent memory. From Atlanta to San Diego, hundreds of fireworks shows have been canceled as officials restrict large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, especially as infections surge across the U.S. With fewer professional celebrations, many Americans are bound to shoot off...

  • Trump, Biden fight for primacy on social media platforms

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    ALEXANDRA JAFFE and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - On an average day, President Donald Trump sends about 14 posts to the 28 million Facebook followers of his campaign account. His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, delivers about half that many posts to an audience of just 2 million. The numbers are similarly skewed in other spheres of the social media landscape. On Twitter, Trump's 82.4 million followers dwarf Biden's 6.4 million. The president has spent years...

  • In troubled times: Independence Day in a land of confusion

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    TED ANTHONY AP National Writer It was the worst of times. It was the weirdest of times. It was a season of sickness and shouting, of defiance and tension, of industrial-strength falsehood and spin. It was a moment of ugliness and deep injustice - and perhaps, too, a moment when the chance for justice felt nearer than ever before. On Independence Day, we Americans - if there is in fact a "we" in American life - celebrate the anniversary of a time when a lot of people, feeling...

  • At Mount Rushmore, Trump digs deeper into nation's divisions

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    STEPHEN GROVES, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) — At the foot of Mount Rushmore and on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump dug deeper into America's divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a "merciless campaign to wipe out our history." The president, in remarks Friday night at the South Dakota landmark, offered a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and seared by the recent h...

  • Much of US scales back on holiday, but Trump plans to go big

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases spike, public health officials are pleading with Americans to avoid large crowds and hold more muted Independence Day celebrations, but subdued is not President Donald Trump's style, and he aimed to go big, promising a "special evening" in Washington that could bring tens of thousands to the National Mall. Trump's "Salute for America" celebration on Saturday evening was to include a speech from the White House South Lawn that he said would celebrate A...

  • 'People aren't stupid': Pence's virus spin tests credibility

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has long played the straight man to Donald Trump, translating the president's bombast into more measured, calming language. His job has become even more difficult. As coronavirus cases spike across large parts of the country despite months of lockdown, Pence has spent the past week trying to convince the American public that things are going very well, even though they're not. "Make no mistake about it, what you see today is that America is going back t...

  • Padres outfielder tests positive for coronavirus

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Padres outfielder Tommy Pham has tested positive for the coronavirus, general manager A.J. Preller announced Friday. ``Tommy Pham has tested positive for the coronavirus,'' Preller told reporters on a Zoom call before the start of the team's first official Summer Camp workout at Petco Park. ``He began the self-isolation process immediately. He is asymptomatic. I've been in contact with him every single day. He feels fine/asymptomatic. As a staff,...

  • Large crowds fill San Diego County beaches as holiday weekend begins

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Large crowds flocked to San Diego beaches at the start of the Fourth of July weekend as positive coronavirus cases surged throughout the county. San Diego County beaches are among the only open stretches of coast line in Southern California, as most others have closed in response to mounting positive coronavirus cases. On Friday, lifeguard officials from Encinitas, Del Mar and Coronado reported beach population estimates that were on par with or greater than...

  • Sunny and warm for Fourth of July weekend

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Fourth of July weekend is expected to be sunny and warm in San Diego County, with highs a couple of degrees above normal and a high surf advisory in effect until noon Monday, the National Weather Service said. A few beaches in San Diego County could remain partly cloudy into the early afternoon Saturday, especially along the central part of the coast, forecasters said. A south-southwest swell will continue through the weekend along with strong rip...

  • San Diego County placed on state's COVID-19 monitoring list, 489 new cases reported

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County was placed on the state's COVID-19 monitoring list Friday afternoon, which could lead to closures or new restrictions on businesses following the Fourth of July weekend. San Diego County was the final county in southern California to be place on the state's monitoring list after it saw a steady rise in daily coronavirus cases. The number of local cases has now reached 15,696, and the 489 cases reported Friday is the sixth time in a week the... Full story

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