Day: May 1, 2020

By Jim Mustain | Associated Press NEW YORK — A New York City nursing home on Friday reported the deaths of 98 residents believed to have had the coronavirus — a staggering death toll that shocked public officials. “It’s absolutely horrifying,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “It’s inestimable loss, and it’s just impossible to imagine […]

After six weeks of forgoing work and paychecks, keeping children home from school and canceling life events big and small, Californians are growing restless with the uncertainty of when they will regain some semblance of normalcy. From the lawn in front of the state capitol building to the streets of Huntington Beach, protests erupted Friday […]

By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan | Reuters WASHINGTON – Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said on Friday, calling it “counterproductive” to have individuals involved in the response testify. The White House issued […]

By Kim Tong-hyung | Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he was seriously ill. The North’s official […]

By Janet McConnaughey and Grant Schulte | Associated Press GRETNA, La. — More than a dozen states let restaurants, stores or other businesses reopen Friday in the biggest one-day push yet to get their economies up and running again, acting at their own speed and with their own quirks and restrictions to make sure the […]

A judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming Bay Area software giant Oracle paid women less than men in several job categories. The ruling opens the way for more than 4,000 women who work or worked at the Redwood City company in product development, information technology and support functions to join the suit. […]

Southwest Airlines has announced some changes to its usual boarding process in order to better help keep proper social distancing practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Travelers will now be boarding the airplanes in groups of 10, with people only lining up on one side of the Southwest’s boarding poles. This will help customers “spread out,” […]