Ten days before New York issued a stay-at-home order, Truman Lam, 35, was already contemplating whether to close his restaurant Jing Fong, an icon in Manhattan’s Chinatown. It was Tuesday, March 10. During the peak lunch hour, he went upstairs to count how many customers he still had. Jing Fong’s dining room is massive; a
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LAS CRUCES, Mexico – The New Mexico Department of Health reported Friday that a Las Cruces nursing home caring for elderly residents with dementia and Alzheimer’s was among 25 assisted-living facilities statewide with confirmed cases of coronavirus. Officials identified Haciendas of Grace Village as one of the roughly two-dozen care facilities that had infections involving
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The New York State Department of Health has suspended the license of a Brooklyn funeral home where dozens of bodies were discovered in trucks Wednesday, according to a statement by the state health commissioner. The actions of the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home were “appalling, disrespectful to the families of the deceased, and completely unacceptable,”
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Joe Biden released a statement Friday denying a former aide’s claims he sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, saying of Tara Reade’s allegation: “This never happened.” Friday’s statement is the first detailed response from Biden to Reade’s allegation and comes as pressure built on the presumptive Democratic nominee to personally address the matter. “While the
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President Donald Trump has essentially given “Operation Warp Speed” a blank check as the team of government officials, scientists and private companies aims to produce hundreds of millions of doses of a life-saving coronavirus vaccine by early next year. The goal — which may prove impossible to meet — is to make 100 million doses
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EL PASO, Texas — A fuel spill from a truck snarled traffic along Interstate 10 westbound through downtown El Paso on Friday afternoon. The three right lanes of I-10 west at downtown were closed due to the spill, so traffic was having to get by using just one lane. Police said traffic was backed up
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean state media says leader Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance in 20 days amid rumors about his health. The Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that he attended a ceremony marking the completion of a fertilizer factory in Suncheon, near the capital of Pyongyang, with other
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany promised at her first press briefing Friday that she will “never lie” but she did mislead in an answer about fired national security adviser Michael Flynn. “I will never lie to you. You have my word on that,” McEnany told reporters, vowing to hold more regular briefings. While McEnany
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican health officials on Friday reported at eleven additional coronavirus deaths had occurred over the past two days in Juarez, which remains the area of Chihuahua state with the most deaths and infections. The death toll in Juarez rose to 75, which accounts for roughly 70% of the state’s 92 virus
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Click here for updates on this story PLACER COUNTY, Calif. (KOVR) — When you can’t leave your home, sometimes you’ve got to get creative, right? An art-based organization in Placer County wants to see your talents with a new stay-at-home talent show. Armand Munoz, 11, already thought he was a winner when he tackled the
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EL PASO, Texas — Some shopping malls and stores throughout the state of Texas reopened Friday as the state allowed, including the Cielo Vista Mall in east El Paso. Cielo Vista general manager Shawna Thompson, told ABC-7 she was “very glad to reopen.” She said while the mall let shoppers back in, it was also
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Gov. Mike DeWine is testing the patience of Ohio. As stay-at-home orders expire in states across the country and several of his fellow Republican governors move swiftly to reopen shuttered businesses, DeWine said he intends to extend his order on Friday as he takes a measured approach in trying to rebound from the coronavirus fight.
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EL PASO, Texas — Restaurants and retail stores in Texas began the re-opening process on Friday, with requirements to operate at 25-percent capacity to comply with Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order allowing it to happen. The state said that restaurants should offer customers hand sanitizer, and indicated that customers should not be serving themselves at
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight Covid-19, which has killed more than 230,000 people worldwide. President Donald Trump announced the news at the White House alongside Food and Drug
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department were sued Thursday for allegedly continuing to collect on defaulted borrowers’ student loans — more than a month after she said it would stop doing so to provide relief for those struggling during the coronoavirus outbreak. Plaintiff Elizabeth Barber, a home health aid in New York, has seen
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Temps will stay in the mid and upper 90’s this weekend with potentially record setting heat Saturday. The record high is 95 degrees in 1940 and I am forecasting 96. The winds will be out of the SW with gusts around 25 mph. Sunday looks hot as well with sunshine and temps around 95. Cold
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“Billions” has shuffled allegiances so many times it’s tough to keep track without a scorecard. But the bottom line is that Showtime’s high-stakes drama remains enormously entertaining, making its return more than welcome, even if the show’s latest creative bets feel somewhat hedged. After the unexpected alliance between hedge-fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and
Continue Reading Originally set in the period between Episodes II and III of the “Star Wars” saga (or movies five and six, chronologically), “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” is finishing its run in rousing fashion, overlapping with key moments in “Revenge of the Sith.” The four-part finale, airing on the streaming service Disney+, has largely charted those
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With millions of Americans unemployed and rent again due, state and city lawmakers are moving to come up with ways to keep people in their homes. States and cities that moved quickly to provide immediate relief with emergency funds last month have begun exploring longer-term solutions as the economic crisis deepens, including extending moratoriums on
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces Public Schools announced Friday that it will allow the class of 2020 to graduate as scheduled, but with drive-thru commencement ceremonies. “We just want the LCPS community to know that we are doing this as a graduation celebration,” said LCPS Superintendent Dr. Karen Trujillo “We hope that we
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President Donald Trump has picked the worst possible time to relaunch his trade battle with China. The coronavirus pandemic is crushing the US and global economies. Unemployment is soaring. GDP is collapsing at an unprecedented pace. Corporate profits are plunging. Manufacturing is contracting. Yet Trump could amplify that financial pain by attempting to use tariffs
Continue Reading In a pandemic-free world, the Seattle Seahawks would be gearing up for training camp and playing in person. But this isn’t a pandemic-free world, so the next best thing the NFL team got was a virtual meeting with a cameo from Will Ferrell. The comedian, masquerading as newly signed tight end Greg Olsen, joined the
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GALLUP, New Mexico — The governor of New Mexico invoked the state’s Riot Control Act on Friday as she sealed off all roads to non-essential traffic in the city of Gallup to help control a surging coronavirus outbreak in the former trading post city on the outskirts of the Navajo Nation. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A group of about 30 protesters took to the sidewalk outside the Las Cruces City Hall on Friday to demand that the state reopen. “The lockdown is more deadly and more lethal than the virus we’re fighting,” said Tim DeGroat. “People are hurting. They need to get back to work
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WASHINGTON, DC — During her first briefing on Friday, new White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany promised that she’d “never lie” to the reporters in the room.”I will never lie to you. You have my word on that,” she said. The Trump administration is distributing $12 billion to 395 hospitals across the country that have been “hardest hit” by
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It almost felt like an episode of “Shark Tank.” One by one, vaccine developers at a White House roundtable convened by President Donald Trump in early March pitched their product as a viable solution to the coronavirus that was spreading globally and killing Americans. John Shiver, the head of R&D for Sanofi Pasteur vaccines, said
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The British government has claimed a win in its battle against coronavirus. Health Secretary Matt Hancock asserted on Friday that it had met a headline-grabbing aim of conducting 100,000 daily Covid-19 tests by the end of April. The figure was 122,347, he said — although officials conceded that 40,369 of those were sent to people’s
Continue Reading Vanessa Bryant paid tribute to her daughter Gianna on Friday on what would have been her 14th birthday. Gigi, as she was affectionately known by friends and family, died along with her father, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, and seven others in a helicopter crash in January in Calabasas, California. Her mother posted a photo showing
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House lawmakers are demanding that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testify before Congress, threatening to subpoena the world’s richest man following a report last week that the company allegedly uses sales data from third-party sellers on its platform to gain a competitive advantage against them. In a letter dated Friday, House lawmakers said the report from
Continue Reading Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck made their affectionate debut on Instagram. The actress, 32, posted photos of her hugged up with the 47-year-old actor in honor of her birthday on her verified Instagram account. In two of the photos, de Armas and Affleck are seen cuddling. “Thank you all so much for the birthday
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