San Francisco Fire Displaces Dozens

One firefighter was injured and dozens of workers were displaced after a five-alarm fire engulfed six commercial buildings in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, the city’s Fire Department said. The fire was first reported at 6:30 a.m. at 13th Street and South Van Ness Avenue, just off Highway 101, in …...Read More

Swimmer in Maine Is Killed by Great White Shark in Rare Attack

In the first recorded fatal shark attack in Maine’s history, a woman was killed this week by a great white as she swam in the ocean off the state’s coast, the authorities said. The woman, identified as Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, was swimming with her daughter about 20 yards offshore …...Read More

Report Slams Doctor at V.A. for Dismissing Suicide Risk of Patient Who Later Killed Himself

WASHINGTON — The internal watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday that a veteran who came through the department’s medical center in Washington last year seeking psychiatric treatment died by suicide a few days later, after a doctor there ordered him forcibly removed and was heard saying that …...Read More

How to Open a Top-Tier Restaurant in a Pandemic? Rethink Everything

Illinois has experienced nearly a week with more than 1,200 new coronavirus cases a day, and case numbers are surging in most of the United States. Hours after Mr. Muser’s speech, Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down indoor dining rooms and bars across California. New York City had already postponed its …...Read More

Malls Seek to Evolve as the Pandemic Hastens a Retail Overhaul

In June, Washington Prime Group agreed to turn a former Sears location at its Morgantown Mall into a logistics, distribution and fulfillment center for WVU Medicine, the health care network serving West Virginia University. The move comes after Washington Prime’s recently announced Fulventory initiative, through which the company is providing …...Read More

Helping California’s Hard-Hit Central Valley

In California, that’s meant predominantly Latino communities far away from the coasts — where lower-wage, often immigrant workers have never stopped showing up for their essential jobs and heading home to crowded apartments — have been pummeled. Experts and advocates say this isn’t new, however, and Mr. Newsom’s announcement of …...Read More

New Census Worry: A Rushed Count Could Mean a Botched One

WASHINGTON — As the 2020 census struggles to find its footing amid the coronavirus outbreak and public reluctance to give the government personal data, officials have a new worry: The Trump administration and Senate Republicans appear to be signaling that they want the census finished well ahead of schedule, pandemic …...Read More

Coronavirus Overwhelms Texas Funeral Homes

ELSA, Texas — Johnny Salinas Jr., the owner of Salinas Funeral Home, typically handles five funerals a week. But on a recent day, with the coronavirus tearing through his community, he saw that many grieving families in a single day. A sixth family was waiting, too. His own. Mr. Salinas …...Read More

PM Modi launches high-throughput Covid-19 testing facilities

As per the Office Memorandum issued by Department of Pensions, the payment of “Provisional Pension” will initially continue for a period of six months from the date of retirement and the period of “Provisional Pension” may be further extended up to one year in exceptional cases....Read More

Assembly session can be called at short notice, if agenda is floor test, says Rajasthan Governor

Have written to Prez, spoken with PM on current political situation in Rajasthan: CM to Cong MLAs Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has written to President Ram Nath Kovind and spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the current political situation in the state. Gehlot had also written a letter …...Read More