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California governor outlines strict guidelines for schools
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out strict criteria Friday for school reopenings that make it unlikely the vast majority of districts will have classroom instruction in the fall as the coronavirus pandemic surges. The rules include a mandate that students above 2nd grade and all staff wear masks in school.
The Latest: Chicago offers hybrid plan for return to school
CHICAGO — Most Chicago children would return to the classroom two days a week and spend the other three days learning remotely once the school year begins, under a tentative plan outlined Friday.
Pritzker: Illinois speaker 'must resign' if allegations true
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan “must resign” if allegations of corruption are true against the fellow Democrat long considered the state’s most powerful lawmaker.
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Amid virus, Nicaragua forgoes celebration, unveils monument
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government is being deterred by the coronarvirus from holding the usual mass celebration to mark the victory of the country's revolution July 19. Instead, it will unveil a new addition to its collection of monuments in the old city center of Managua on Friday.
Oregon officials decry arrests by federal agents in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents in green camouflage uniforms have been taking into custody people in the streets of Portland, not close to federal property that they were sent to protect, in what the ACLU on Friday said “should concern everyone in the United States.”
Investigators list potential crimes in Indiana assault case
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State investigators identified six potential crimes Thursday in an incident report concerning the
Details released in crash of plane carrying Earnhardt Jr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane's wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before the race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Latest: WHO says larger team to arrive in China later
LONDON — The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief says it is “unrealistic” to expect a larger team to arrive in China this month to investigate the animal origins of the coronavirus.
Chicago plan would have kids in classrooms 2 days per week
CHICAGO (AP) — Most Chicago children would return to the classroom two days a week and spend the other three days learning remotely once the school year begins under a tentative plan city officials presented Friday despite opposition to any in-person instruction by the teachers union because of the coronavirus threat.
2 men charged in assault on Black man at Indiana lake
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two men were charged Friday in an assault on a Black man during which he says
Ex-Indiana House Speaker Bosma resigning early from seat
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma announced Friday he will formally resign from the Legislature at the end of July.
The Latest: Atlanta mayor questions timing of Gov. Kemp suit
ATLANTA -- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sued the city of Atlanta over its face-mask requirement just after President Donald Trump arrived in the city without wearing a mask, says Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
ESPN: Most highest-paid college coaches avoid salary cuts
Most of the highest-paid college football coaches have avoided the voluntary salary reductions that have swept Power Five programs, according to an ESPN survey.
Minister: Iraq to face severe shortages as river flows drop
DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's minister of water resources says his country will face severe water shortages if agreements are not forged with neighboring Turkey over Ankara's irrigation and dam projects that have decreased river inflows to Iraq's parched plains.
Warning: Italy's Mafias eye EU's billions in recovery funds
ROME (AP) — Italy’s anti-Mafia investigators issued a dramatic warning Friday that mobsters will scheme to get some of hundreds of billions of euros in European Union recovery aid after the pandemic.
Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump's wrath
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.
Military medics deploy in California, Texas as virus surges
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (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.
Jamaal Bowman topples US Rep. Engel in NY Democratic primary
NEW YORK (AP) — Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman has toppled 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in New York's Democratic primary in another upset victory for the party's insurgent wing.
The Latest: Nearly 10,000 African health workers had virus
JOHANNESBURG — Nearly 10,000 health workers in 40 African countries have been infected with the coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization.