By Alex Marquardt and Jeremy Herb, CNN The US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment about the origin of the Covid-19 virus following a 90-day investigation ordered by President Joe Biden, according to an unclassified summary of the probe released publicly on Friday. The intelligence community is still divided about which of the two theories
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las señales de advertencia sobre un pico de contagio de covid-19 han estado en rojo en Florida este otoño. Las hospitalizaciones por coronavirus han aumentado desde noviembre, la tasa de positividad de las pruebas es el doble de lo que era a principios de octubre y el recuento de nuevos
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Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The start of the game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia on Friday night was delayed 26 minutes due to contact tracing after the Phillies put three players on the COVID-19 injured list. The game was scheduled to start at 7:05 p.m., but first pitch was at 7:31 p.m.. Earlier
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco have very few questions to settle heading into the Los Angeles Chargers’ preseason finale against the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday night. But determining who will back up quarterback Justin Herbert remains unclear. Chase Daniel will start
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco have very few questions to settle heading into the Los Angeles Chargers’ preseason finale against the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday night. But determining who will back up quarterback Justin Herbert remains unclear. Chase Daniel will start
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It’s week 2 of the high school football season! We’ve got 10 games this week, check out the schedule below. Watch the Best Local Sports Show with Blake Arthur at 11 p.m. for scores, highlights, and more from this week’s action. We’ll also announce our Play of the Week nominees! WEEK 2 – FRIDAY 8/27 Palm Desert
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Cubs infielder David Bote has been scratched after he sprained his right ankle during batting practice. Ian Happ was inserted into the fifth spot in the lineup for the Cubs’ game against the crosstown White Sox, playing left field. Matt Duffy moved from third to second, and Patrick Wisdom moved from left
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By KELLI KENNEDY and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — One of Florida’s largest health networks is seeing the capacity of its hospital morgues strained amid a spike in seriously ill COVID-19 patients and a backup at funeral homes. While virus-related hospitalizations in the state recently started leveling off, the number of daily
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By Liam Reilly, CNN The school board in Gloucester County, Virginia, has agreed to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $1.3 million in legal fees for representing Gavin Grimm during a legal battle over transgender bathroom rights at school, the ACLU said in a news release. The six-year lawsuit was the result of a “discriminatory
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Siete agentes de la policía del Capitolio de Estados Unidos demandaron al expresidente Donald Trump, a los organizadores del mitin “Stop the Steal” y a miembros de grupos de ultraderecha, acusándolos de difundir mentiras, de utilizar sentimientos de supremacismo blanco para intentar anular las elecciones de 2020 y, en última instancia,
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two Texas police officers have been indicted muon murder charges in a line-of-duty fatal shooting of an Austin scientist. One officer, Christopher Taylor, was already under a murder indictment for another on-duty shooting death in Austin. A Travis County grand jury indicted Taylor and Officer Karl Krycia on murder and deadly
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT and DARRON CUMMINGS Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Bernie Sanders has long argued — but not proved — that his big government populism can win over voters in the largely white, rural communities that flocked to Republican Donald Trump in recent elections. Now, as the chief Senate shepherd of a
Continue Reading Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The start of the game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia on Friday night was delayed 26 minutes due to contact tracing after the Phillies put three players on the COVID-19 injured list. The game was scheduled to start at 7:05 p.m., but first pitch was at 7:31 p.m.. Earlier
Continue Reading OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The family of a 23-year-old Marine from Omaha says he was among the 13 U.S. service members killed in the attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. The family of Cpl. Daegan William-Tyeler Page said Friday in a statement that he was part of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines based in
Continue Reading By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge struck a Seattle measure on homelessness from the November ballot even as the city remains mired in a long-term humanitarian crisis. The so-called “Compassion Seattle” proposal would direct the city to provide 2,000 units of emergency or permanent housing within a year and
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty at trial of a 29-year-old convicted felon accused of killing three men during an apparently random string of Las Vegas-area robberies. John Anthony Carrillo faces three murder charges in the early July deaths of Ruben Garcia, Miles Smith and Abraham Acosta,
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw in its cloud computing platform that cybersecurity researchers warned could have enabled hackers to take over a cloud-based database product used by many big companies. The company said Friday there’s no evidence the potential opening was exploited by malicious actors or that any customer
Continue Reading REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw in its cloud computing platform that cybersecurity researchers warned could have enabled hackers to take over a cloud-based database product used by many big companies. The company said Friday there’s no evidence the potential opening was exploited by malicious actors or that any customer
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A Desert Hot Springs man was sentenced today to 56 years to life in state prison for the stabbing death of his landlord. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Dean Benjamini handed down the maximum term for Albert Marchain, 29, who was convicted July 7 of killing 69-year-old Stanislaw Tokarski nearly three years ago. An Indio
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Veteran utility player Marwin Gonzalez has signed a minor league deal with the Houston Astros in a bid to rejoin his original MLB team. He is working out at the team’s spring training camp in Florida. The 32-year-old Gonzalez was designated for assignment two weeks ago by Boston. He began his
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