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For hundreds of thousands of high school athletes in the State of California, they finally have an answer as to when they can begin competing at local high schools during the 2020-21 school year. For now. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), along with the help of the 10 regional sections, announced on Monday, July 20, that there will be a modified sports season schedule for the upcoming school year that breaks the sports into two groups — fall and spring — ins... Full story
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California will kill 3.2 million trout to stop the outbreak of a bacterial infection that's threatening hatcheries, wildlife officials said Monday. The trout, which are used to stock waterways for recreational fishing, are in two hatcheries in the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra and one hatchery in the Mojave Desert city of Victorville, northeast of Los Angeles. Fish at the hatcheries have been infected with Lactococcus garvieae, which is similar to streptococcus, wildlife officials said. "We didn't h...
CATHY HE The Epoch Times The United States has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to immediately end its “depraved abuse and mistreatment” of the spiritual practice Falun Gong. “Twenty-one years of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is far too long, and it must end,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a rare statement by a top administration official about the repression. “Extensive evidence shows the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government continues to repress and abuse this community to this day...
JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis' top prosecutor on Monday charged a white husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns during a racial injustice protest outside their mansion. Mark and Patricia McCloskey are both personal injury attorneys in their 60s. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner told The Associated Press that their actions risked creating a violent situation during an otherwise nonviolent protest last month. "It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner — that is...
MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Monday that he is putting Russia and other foreign governments "on notice" that he would act aggressively as president to counter any interference in U.S. elections. The statement came hours after Democratic leaders issued a new warning that Congress appears to be the target of a foreign interference campaign. Biden said in a statement that he would treat foreign interference as an "an adversarial act t...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials Monday announced 453 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total number of cases to 24,135, but no new deaths were reported. Monday's number marked the fewest new cases since July 15, when there were 409, in what was the worst week since the start of the pandemic. Between July 13-19, the county also reported the most hospitalizations -- 163 -- and the most deaths -- 56 -- in any one-week span since COVID-19 began... Full story
LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump insisted "good things" were underway on the next COVID-19 aid package Monday as he met with Republican congressional leaders, but new divisions between the Senate GOP and the White House posed fresh challenges as the crisis worsened and emergency relief was expiring. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been prepared to roll out the $1 trillion package in a matter of days. But the...
Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters outside Portland's U.S. courthouse set a fire in the building's entryway early Monday in yet another night of conflict with federal agents who repeatedly tear gassed the demonstrators to drive them away, officials said. Authorities over the weekend erected large fences around the building in an effort to keep away the protesters who have been on Portland's streets daily since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis n...
MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) - Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. British researchers first began testing the vaccine in April in about 1,000 people, half of whom got the experimental vaccine. Such early trials are designed to evaluate safety and see what kind of immune response was provoked, but can't tell if the...
TOM OZIMEK The Epoch Times President Donald Trump insisted that the next COVID-19 relief bill must contain a payroll tax cut and liability protection for businesses, otherwise he might not sign it into law. Trump made the remarks on Sunday’s interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, with the president saying, “I would consider not signing it if we don’t have a payroll tax cut, yes.” Wallace asked Trump how key is the presence in the next stimulus package of the tax cut and a liability waiver, which according to draft relief bi...
MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press A gunman posing as a delivery person shot and killed the 20-year-old son of a federal judge and wounded her husband at their New Jersey home before fleeing, according to judiciary officials. The shooting occurred Sunday evening at the North Brunswick home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, and killed her son, Daniel, Chief District Judge Freda Wolfson told The Associated Press. Her husband, defense lawyer Mark Anderl, was injured in the attack, Wolfson said. Salas was in the basement at the...
AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of a national strike say tens of thousands of workers are set to walk off the job Monday in more than two dozen U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. Dubbed the "Strike for Black Lives," labor unions, along with social and racial justice organizations from New York City to Los Angeles, will participate in a range of planned actions. In places where work stoppages are not possible for a f...
NORTH COUNTY (CNS) - The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said today 59-year-old Cary Jay Smith, a convicted sex offender recently released from a state psychiatric hospital, is now staying at a North County motel. Smith had briefly relocated to the cities of Orange and Corona, then Lake Elsinore, officials said Sunday. ``Cary decided to leave the Lake Elsinore area. Thank you to everyone who engaged with us upon learning he was in our community,'' the Riverside County Sheriff's Lake Elsinore station posted on Facebook....
CHULA VISTA (CNS) - A skydiver died today after experiencing a medical emergency during a jump from a plane near Otay Lakes Road, authorities said. The skydiver's parachute opened and he drifted off course before landing, where a San Diego County Sheriff's helicopter located him at about 11 a.m., according to Deputy Fire Chief Harry Muns of the Chula Vista Fire Department. A San Diego County fire chopper lowered a firefighter to where the skydiver had landed, Muns said. He...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The number of daily COVID-19 cases in San Diego County has crossed 600 for the second time as the number of total cases rose to 23,114, officials said. County public health officials reported 625 new cases Saturday and six additional deaths, raising the death count to 478. Of the six deaths, four were women and two were men. They died between July 8 and 16 and ranged in age from 60 to mid-90s. All had underlying health conditions. The county recorded 10,290...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Today is expected to be the warmest of the next seven days as cooler weather develops midweek with a weak low-pressure system building along the West Coast, forecasters said. High temperatures Sunday along the coast were forecast to be 74-79 degrees, with highs in the western valleys 83-88 and near the foothills 89-94, the National Weather Service said. Overnight lows on the coast will be 59-65 and in the inland valleys, 57-62. Highs in the deserts will be...
JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty baseball teams from 28 cities, trying to play 60 games each amid a coronavirus pandemic that seemingly hasn't peaked in the United States. Plausible? Worthwhile? Unconscionable? Even among experts, it depends on who's talking: "Baseball games can work," said Dr. David Hamer, professor of global health at the Boston University School of Public Health. "I think it's feasible." "There are certain sports that are higher risk...
ALLEN ZHONG The Epoch Times A young motorcyclist who died in a fatal crash was counted as a COVID-19 death in a Florida county, according to local media. The authorities have since removed the motorcyclist’s death from the list of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus fatalities, Fox 35 reported. According to the latest report (pdf) released by the authorities, there is only one person in his 20s who has died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, as of July 18. A screenshot from a previous report shows the young m...
AAMER MADHANI and LYNN BERRY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours after the death of American civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to retweet old missives about Democratic rival Joe Biden and lash out at his former national security adviser and his niece for writing tell-all books about him. Trump then headed to his golf course in northern Virginia with a political confidant, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, for a nearly four-hour outing. Shortly after 2 p.m., as Trump w...
ANDREW SELSKY and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's attorney general is seeking an order to stop federal agents from arresting people in Portland as the city continues to be convulsed by nightly protests that have gone on for seven weeks and have now pitted local officials against the Trump administration. Federal agents, some wearing camouflage and some wearing dark Homeland Security uniforms, used tear gas at least twice to break up crowds late Friday night, The Oregonian/OregonLive r...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The number of daily COVID-19 cases in San Diego County has crossed 600 for the second time as the number of total cases rose to 23,114. County public health officials reported 625 new cases Saturday and six additional deaths, raising the death count to 478. Of the six deaths, four were women and two were men. They died between July 8 and 16 and ranged in age from 60 to mid-90s. All had underlying health conditions. Bonsall reported 25 cases, Pala reported 27... Full story
Originally scheduled for Hell's Kitchen Motorsports Bar & Grill in Lake Elsinore, the Freedom Protest Rally 2020 went off without a hitch on Saturday, July 18 at Hawk Ranch in Murrieta. The protest, which Hell's Kitchen owner Frank Opp said was forced to move due to warnings from state and law enforcement officials, drew a large crowd to the ranch in temperatures that reached into the low 90s. The event, which was billed as a protest rally to address current issues in the...
TEMECULA (CNS) - Some lanes will be closed on Interstate 15 in and around Temecula next week due to repaving work. The work is part of a $28 million project to replace the number-three and -four lanes on the freeway between the Riverside-San Diego County line to just north of the Temecula Creek Bridge, according to the California Department of Transportation. The work will be done both during daytime and nighttime, Monday to Friday. From 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., crews will be...
AAMER MADHANI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have tried to make it clear: Given the chance, they would push through a Supreme Court nominee should a vacancy occur before Election Day. The issue has taken on new immediacy with the disclosure Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer after four earlier bouts with the disease. The 87-year-old liberal, who apologized in 2016 for her poin...
JAY REEVES Associated Press A fast-rising tide of new coronavirus cases is flooding emergency rooms in parts of the United States, with some patients moved into hallways and nurses working extra shifts to keep up with the surge. Patients struggling to breathe are being placed on ventilators in emergency wards since intensive care units are full, officials say, and the near-constant care they require is overtaxing workers who also are treating more typical ER cases like chest pains, infections, and fractures. In Texas, Dr....
