Health care workers are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, risking their lives to protect Americans from illness and even death. Among them are countless Asian American medical professionals, serving as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and more. But as they work around the clock to stop the virus from spreading, many are
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Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) — As the population of unhoused people continues to grow across the Southland, so too is the number of violent crimes. “He was just tired of being asked to leave, so he came randomly one day, charging at me with a, I don’t know, a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HEMET, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A woman was killed and four others shot during a large brawl involving as many as eight people in Hemet, police said Wednesday. Fighting in the 1200 block of Valencia Avenue was reported just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to Hemet police. Officers were
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The Labor Department has exhausted its options for continuing to pay an extra $300 a week in federal unemployment benefits to jobless people in the 22 GOP-led states that are ending them early, an administration official told CNN Thursday. Roughly 3.6 million out-of-work Americans will forgo a total of $21.7 billion in benefits as a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MODESTO, California (KOVR) — Two teen girls spoke out after a car chase throughout Modesto resulted in their friend, who was behind the wheel, being shot by a deputy, leaving him on life support. They’re now questioning why that Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputy opened fire, when they say
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Early in the testing phase of Apple’s M1 chipset, a milestone new product for the company, the processor was installed in a batch of Mac computers and given to staffers working on applications that demanded heavy processing power. It was a pivotal moment: the first time Apple had made its own chip for any of
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It hasn’t been a great week for digital currencies. Bitcoin is trading nearly 40% below its record price of $64,000 following a sudden crash sparked by regulatory moves in China. Ethereum is down more than 35% from its all-time high, and dogecoin is off more than 45%. Investors expect cryptocurrencies to be volatile. But the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SANTA ROSA, California (KPIX) — A woman was arrested after coming onto a high school campus in Santa Rosa Wednesday and allegedly assaulting students and a teacher inside a classroom. The incident happened at around 9 a.m. on the campus of Pivot Charter School on Cleveland Ave. Santa
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A strange underwater creature known as the vampire fish is making a comeback to the American River. Just this week, local divers spotted two of them. The vampire fish, otherwise known as pacific lamprey, is long with leather-like skin, and it has teeth. “It looks
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PALO ALTO, California (KPIX) — Police in Palo Alto said a coordinated group of at least ten suspects stole more than $150,000 in handbags from the Neiman Marcus store at Stanford Shopping Center Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday at about 12:20 p.m., Palo Alto police dispatch received a second-hand
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story THORNTON, Colorado (KCNC) — Police in Thornton say Travis Butts, 38, was driving under the influence at 102 mph when he ran a red light in March, killing a father and his 7-year-old son. Officers responded to the crash just after 1 a.m. on March 6 at the
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The 2021 Copa América will no longer feature games in co-host Colombia after CONMEBOL, the South American football confederation, announced on Thursday it would move games away from the country. The tournament, delayed by a year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, was due to be jointly hosted for the first time its 105-year history, with matches
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(CNN) — Fue un tiro basura, ¿cierto? Sebastián Muñoz logró la forma más rara de hoyo en uno el jueves en el PGA Championship 2021, y uno del que parecía no estar dispuesto a recuperar su pelota. En el hoyo 18 en el Ocean Course de Kiawah Island, el golfista colombiano lanzó su drive hacia
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) — An Aurora police officer, Daniel Bertelson, sent a department-wide email this month as he announced his retirement, offering some barbs and harsh assessments of the current climate for law enforcement. “I am leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism,” wrote Bertelson, who spent
Continue Reading President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to send families with kids thousands more dollars starting in July could slash child poverty in half — but only if the federal government can successfully deliver the money to all eligible households. While the vast majority of eligible families will receive the monthly payments automatically, very low-income households who
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UPDATE: El Paso police late Friday released additional details about an early morning stabbing outside a Circle K gas station on the city’s east side. “During a heated altercation, 30–year-old Nestor Alfonso Chavez stabbed 23–year-old Drew Timothy Psihos as the couple was driving on Montwood,” detectives said in a statement. Psihos was hospitalized with serious
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — El mercado de las criptomonedas se estabilizó el jueves y el bitcoin (ARSC) volvió a subir por encima de los US$ 40.000 dólares. Aun así, la moneda digital más grande del mundo ha perdido más del 30% en capitalización de mercado desde su pico a mediados de abril. El mercado
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced two new coronavirus-related deaths and 42 new cases Friday. The latest deaths involve a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s. El Paso County’s pandemic death toll now stands at 2,601. There are 22 additional suspected Covid-19 deaths currently
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In one week, there were nine cases of Covid-19 in fully vaccinated members of the New York Yankees organization: one player, three coaches and five team staff. The revelation has led to questions about vaccine efficacy and fears of super-strength variant strains. But experts say these cases show the vaccine is working, and testing remains
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May’s “flower” supermoon will grace the sky this Wednesday. This supermoon will be the closest moon to Earth in 2021, according to EarthSky. There are two to four supermoons each year. These lunar events are often a brilliant sight to see because they are brighter and larger than a normal full moon. The definition of
Continue Reading China’s plan to build its way out of the pandemic is pushing its carbon emissions to record highs, new research has found. The country’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement production grew 14.5% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a Thursday report from the Centre for Research
Continue Reading (CNN) — El creciente bloqueo republicano contra la creación de una comisión bipartidista para investigar la insurrección del Capitolio de Estados Unidos el 6 de enero ha cristalizado la fijación del partido con las elecciones de mitad de período de 2022. Incluso en un asunto grave de seguridad nacional, el Partido Republicano ha llegado a
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Canada’s Corey Conners tamed a windswept Ocean course on Thursday, carding the round of the day to lead by two shots after the opening of the PGA Championship, with former winners Brooks Koepka and Keegan Bradley giving chase. Trying to join Masters champion Mike Weir as the only Canadians to win one of golf’s four
Continue Reading (CNN) — La niña de 11 años que evitó un presunto intento de secuestro contra ella esta semana atribuyó al programa de televisión «Law and Order: Special Victims Unit» una idea rápida que tuvo y que ayudó a las autoridades a identificar al sospechoso. En una entrevista con «Today Show» de NBC, la niña, identificada
Continue Reading After Ronald Greene’s fatal 2019 encounter with the Louisiana State Police, family members said police told them he died in an auto accident. A preliminary investigative report later said that Greene actually died after resisting and struggling with law enforcement after the chase ended in a crash. Now, more than two years later, body camera
Continue Reading The end is finally near for Internet Explorer, one of Microsoft’s most-reviled products that refused to die. Microsoft announced this week that it will end support for Internet Explorer 11 on June 15, 2022. That final nail in the coffin came after years of flirting with IE’s demise. For example, in August 2020, Microsoft turned
Continue Reading Tencent is pulling in more money and plans on investing more in games and videos, even as Beijing expands its scrutiny of the tech sector. The Chinese gaming and social media giant said Thursday that revenue jumped 25% to 135.3 billion yuan (about $21 billion) for the quarter ended March compared to the same period
Continue Reading The US is reporting some of the lowest Covid-19 metrics in nearly a year and officials say we’re finally turning the corner. But vaccination rates have slowed nationwide and are uneven across American communities. For parts of the US, it will be an uphill battle to get more shots into arms. But experts say that
Continue Reading Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, has lambasted the BBC for contributing “significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation” felt by his late mother, Princess Diana, in the years before her death, in a rare emotionally charged statement by a royal against the public broadcaster. The Duke’s comments come after the BBC offered an unconditional
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