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  • U.S. Agents in Portland set to pull back, but tensions simmer

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    Valley News Staff PORTLAND, Oregon - The Trump administration and Oregon leaders declared victory after it was announced that U.S. agents guarding a federal courthouse during violent demonstrations in Portland will pull back, The Associated Press has reported. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday, July 29 that agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin leaving the city's downtown area Thursday. But acting secretary fo...

  • Wall Street slides, but tech strength helps avert a big loss

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Most of Wall Street stumbled Thursday, but yet another rise for big technology stocks helped keep the market's losses in check. The S&P 500 dropped 12.22 points, or 0.4%, to 3,246.22, with nearly three out of four stocks in the index falling. Among the hardest-hit were oil producers, banks and other companies that most need the economy to pull out of its recession. Treasury yields also sank in a sign of increased pessimism about...

  • Big Tech, hit by the pandemic, reports mixed earnings

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    MICHAEL LIEDTKE, MATT O'BRIEN and JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writers Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices. The staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports from Amazon, Facebook, and Google's corporate parent, Alphabet. Apple, the most valuable company of them all, is set to disclose its numbers for the April-June quarter later o...

  • Big Tech, hit by the pandemic, reports mixed earnings

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    MICHAEL LIEDTKE, MATT O'BRIEN and JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writers Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices. The staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports from Amazon, Facebook, and Google's corporate parent, Alphabet. Apple, the most valuable company of them all, is set to disclose its numbers for the April-June quarter later o...

  • John Lewis mourned as 'founding father' of 'better America'

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis' example and fight injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church after nearly a week of mourning that took the civil rights icon from his birthplace in Alabama to the nation's capital of Washington to his final resting place in his home of Atlanta. Lewis was "a man of pure joy and u...

  • UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test

    Updated Jul 20, 2020

    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...

  • Trump Demands Payroll Tax Cut In Next Relief Bill Or He May Refuse to Sign

    Updated Jul 20, 2020

    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...

  • Son of US District Judge Esther Salas killed, husband shot

    Updated Jul 20, 2020

    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...

  • Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality

    Updated Jul 20, 2020

    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...

  • Florida Counted Young Motorcyclist Who Died in Fatal Crash as COVID-19 Death

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    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...

  • Trump says he is 'saddened' by Lewis' death

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    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...

  • Oregon sues feds over Portland protests as unrest continues

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    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...

  • Given a chance, Trump would push court pick before election

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    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...

  • As virus surges in some US states, emergency rooms swamped

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    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....

  • Oregon officials decry federal agents after protest clashes

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    ANDREW SELSKY and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Militarized federal agents deployed by the president to Portland, Oregon, fired tear gas against protesters again overnight as the city's mayor demanded that the agents be removed and as the state's attorney general vowed to seek a restraining order against them. Federal agents, some wearing camouflage and some wearing dark Homeland Security uniforms, used tear gas at least twice to break up crowds late...

  • Mnuchin Proposes Priority Areas for Phase 4 Stimulus

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    TOM OZIMEK The Epoch Times Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin identified priority areas for additional support as he urged Congress on Friday to work with the Trump administration to pass the phase 4 stimulus package by the end of the month. Testifying before the House Committee on Small Business, Mnuchin called for lawmakers to act quickly to provide supplemental relief to further blunt the impact of the pandemic on America’s economy, including more funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). “A next phase of rel...

  • Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and 'American hero'

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very beginning — when he was just a kid wanting to be a minister someday — his audience didn't care much for what he had to say. A son of Alabama sharecroppers, the young Lewis first preached moral righteousness to his family's chickens. His place in the vanguard of the 1960s campaign for Black equality had its roots in that hardscrabble Alabama farm and all those clucks. Lewis...

  • John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    CALVIN WOODWARD and DESIREE SEALS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis' passing late Friday night, calling him "one of the greatest heroes of American history." "All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing,"...

  • Mayor of Portland to Trump: Get your troops out of the city

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    ANDREW SELSKY and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city after some detained people on streets far from federal property they were sent to protect. "Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city," Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a news conference. Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said Trump is looking for a confrontation in the hopes of winning political points elsewhere and t...

  • How does COVID-19 affect kids? Science has answers and gaps

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer What role children play in the coronavirus pandemic is the hot-button question of the summer as kids relish their free time while schools labor over how to resume classes. The Trump administration says the science "is very clear," but many doctors who specialize in pediatrics and infectious diseases say much of the evidence is inconclusive. "There are still a lot of unanswered questions. That is the biggest challenge," said Dr. Sonja...

  • Fauci Says COVID-19 Has Potential to Be As Serious As 1918 Flu Pandemic

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    TOM OZIMEK The Epoch Times Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, suggested recently that the COVID-19 outbreak has the potential to approach the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in terms of seriousness while expressing hopes that the administration’s interventions would prevent such an outcome. Fauci made the remarks during a Georgetown University Global Health Initiative webinar on Tuesday, during which he called the COVID-19 outbreak a “pandemic of historic proportions.” “The...

  • Republicans eye sweeping shield from coronavirus liability

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new plan from Senate Republicans to award businesses, schools, and universities sweeping exemptions from lawsuits arising from inadequate coronavirus safeguards is putting Republicans and Democrats at loggerheads as Congress reconvenes next week to negotiate another relief package. The liability proposal, drafted by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and senior Republican John Cornyn of Texas, promises to shield employers when customers and workers are exposed to c...

  • Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump's wrath

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn't mention the word ban or that specific flag. The policy, laid out in a memo released Friday, was described by officials as a creative way to bar the flag's display without openly contradicting or angering President Donald Trump, who has defended people's rights to display it. Signed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper on T...

  • Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won't retire

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who spent time in the hospital this week for a possible infection, said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver and that she will continue chemotherapy sessions every two weeks. "I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam. I remain fully able to do that," Gin...

  • Military medics deploy in California, Texas as virus surges

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID CRARY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients, as Miami area authorities began stepping up enforcement Friday of a mask requirement — echoing efforts in many parts of the world to contain surging infections. In California, military doctors, nurses and other health care specialists were being deployed to eight hospitals facing staffing shortages amid a record-breaking case numbers. In Houston, an 86-p...

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