ellas: July 2020

Friday, July 31, 2020

BREAKING NEWS

California became the first state to report more than 500,000 coronavirus cases, according to a Times database. Here's the latest.

Friday, July 31, 2020 10:27 PM EST

California locked down its residents relatively early, on March 19, buying time for hospitals and public health workers to prepare for an expected onslaught. The state’s weekly average number of infections in late April was less than 20 percent of what it is today.

But while the restrictions led to early success in the state, which has the world’s fifth-largest economy, they eventually wore on residents reeling from spikes in unemployment. Resistance mounted to the restrictions.

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BREAKING NEWS

James Murdoch resigned from the board of News Corp, severing his formal ties to his father's media empire over disagreements about editorial content.

Friday, July 31, 2020 7:18 PM EST

“My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions,” Mr. Murdoch, 47, wrote in his resignation letter, which News Corp disclosed in a filing shortly after the close of business on Friday.

News Corp is the newspaper arm of the Murdoch kingdom, publishing influential broadsheets like The Wall Street Journal as well as powerful tabloids, including The Sun of London and The New York Post.