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Italians try social distance swimming
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A birdwatcher. A dog. Another viral racial incident in America
It began with a black man's regular early-morning stroll to glimpse scarlet tanagers, the bright red songbirds found in the Ramble, a shady, meandering series of paths in New York's Central Park popular with birders and ...Read more
House Republicans sue Nancy Pelosi to block proxy voting rule
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with 20 other Republicans and four constituents, challenged the constitutionality of proxy voting in the chamber on Tuesday with a lawsuit aimed at Speaker Nancy ...Read more
Trump to make Florida the face of America's reopening at Cape Canaveral rocket launch
MIAMI -- Grounded for weeks in Washington by the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump is returning to Florida on Wednesday for the first launch on American soil in nearly a decade of astronauts into space.
Trump ...Read more
Washington state aims to regulate water temperature at federal dams, wading into controversy
SEATTLE -- The Columbia is the great river of the West, winding from the north to meet its largest tributary, the Snake in Eastern Washington, then dividing the states of Oregon and Washington on its push to the sea. Big ...Read more
US consumer confidence stabilized in May on reopening optimism
U.S. consumer confidence stabilized in May, indicating Americans are optimistic that the economic drubbing from the coronavirus pandemic will be short-lived.
The Conference Board's index rose by 0.9 point to 86.6, ...Read more
California reopening further, but LA County still stymied by coronavirus numbers
LOS ANGELES -- California is moving into its third stage of reopening, a plan that is affecting some counties dramatically sooner than others.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that barbershops and hair salons would be ...Read more
Air travel gets Memorial Day bump to levels unseen in weeks
Air travel over the Memorial Day holiday weekend returned to levels not seen since plummeting in March when stay-home orders took effect across most of the U.S.
More than 318,000 people passed through U.S. airport ...Read more
With Hollywood clubs closed, underground parties thrive; authorities are cracking down
LOS ANGELES -- With nightclubs shuttered due to the coronavirus outbreak, short-term rentals of Hollywood Hills homes have become a spot for illicit underground parties.
Now, the Los Angeles city attorney and Los Angeles ...Read more
'Terrifying': Lake of the Ozarks worker must return to job, but fears virus in crowds
When Tinara Lynch got a call from her employer, Land Shark Bar and Grill restaurant at Lake of the Ozarks, she felt stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Lynch, who is 21, could choose not to go back to work when the ...Read more
Kaiser's virus patients needed more intense care than ones in China, study finds
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As health experts in the U.S. planned for a surge in coronavirus patients earlier this spring, they relied on data from China and elsewhere to estimate everything from how many hospital beds would be ...Read more
LA County allows churches, stores, pools, drive-in theaters to reopen with restrictions
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County announced Tuesday that it will align with California's latest guidelines and allow the resumption of faith-based services, in-store shopping at low-risk retail stores, drive-in movies and ...Read more
Twitter issues fact check of Trump tweets for the first time
WASHINGTON -- Twitter issued a fact check of some of Donald Trump's tweets on Tuesday, marking the first time the U.S. president's favored social media platform has pushed back against him spreading falsehoods.
The move, ...Read more
'I will not be bullied.' Kentucky Gov. Beshear responds to effigy at Capitol
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A defiant Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday said he will not bow to fear and intimidation after protesters hung an effigy of him from a tree Sunday at the end of a 2nd Amendment rally on the Capitol ...Read more
Biden to keynote Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's virtual convention
MINNEAPOLIS -- Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker at the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's virtual convention Sunday, making an appeal directly to activists in a state...Read more
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District apologizes for 'inappropriate' question about slavery in S.C. students' homework
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina school district is apologizing for a fourth-grade social studies assignment meant to teach ...Read more
Hong Kong police say protesters have started blocking roads
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong police said protesters attempted to block roads and disrupt traffic early Wednesday morning, ahead of what could be the biggest day of demonstrations in months against China's moves to increase ...Read more
Trump targets California in latest attack on mail-in voting
WASHINGTON -- Facing a potentially difficult path to reelection, President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded his attacks on states using mail-in ballots, a scorched-earth campaign that could undermine confidence in the ...Read more
Sources: Two top officials at Pa. veterans nursing home hit by 37 coronavirus deaths are suspended
PHILADELPHIA -- The head of the Pennsylvania-run Southeastern Veterans' Center and a senior staffer there were placed on indefinite suspension Tuesday amid an investigation into operations at the nursing home where dozens ...Read more
UConn senior suspected in homicides remains on the run as family pleads with him to surrender
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Peter Manfredonia, the University of Connecticut senior suspected of killing two people and kidnapping a third before fleeing the state, took an Uber to a Walmart in Pennsylvania and was last seen ...Read more
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