| THE BIG STORY California is shutting down all indoor dining and bars across the state again as COVID-19 cases surge Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the shutdown of bars and indoor operations at restaurants, wineries, and movie theaters, as hospitalizations spike amid a surge in coronavirus cases in the state.
The statewide orders will affect about half of the state's 58 counties due to local increases in COVID-19.
But it doesn’t stop there for California. Thirty counties — including Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Sacramento, and Contra Costa — are being ordered to close indoor fitness centers, worship services, personal care services, hair salons, and malls. This will affect counties that account for 80% of the state's population.
Officials think the surge in cases is in part caused by young people who think they're invincible, and Californians mingling with people outside their own households and not physically distancing themselves.
STAYING ON TOP OF THIS After days of searching, Glee star Naya Rivera has been found dead at 33
Five days after she went missing from a boat on a reservoir just outside Los Angeles, the body of Rivera has been recovered after an extensive search.
The actor was reported missing Wednesday after her 4-year-old son, Josey, was found asleep and alone on a rented boat found drifting on Lake Piru.
Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said the boy told investigators he had been swimming with his mother when she boosted him from behind into the boat and he then saw her disappear under the surface of the water.
Authorities believe Rivera may have drowned using all her energy to save her son.
Former Glee cast members and fans are paying heartfelt tributes to Rivera.
Jordan Strauss / AP SNAPSHOTS Two men and two teenagers have been charged in the death of rapper Pop Smoke. The suspects face charges of murder and robbery related to the death of the rapper at a Hollywood Hills home in February.
Three Arizona teachers shared a classroom. They all got COVID-19 and one died. They wore masks and gloves, kept their distance, and used hand sanitizer, but that didn’t protect them. One teacher said, “It spread between the three of us in four days. Imagine what's going to happen with more people in the classroom.”
A 51-year-old immigrant man has died in ICE custody after testing positive for COVID-19. Onoval Perez-Montufa, 51, had been in ICE custody since June 15. He was taken to hospital after reporting shortness of breath while in detention.
The conspiracy theory about Wayfair is spreading fast among lifestyle influencers on Instagram. Baseless conspiracy theories about Wayfair are not new, but the version that went viral among influencers appears to have originated on the r/conspiracy subreddit. The apparent original poster speculated that Wayfair had been trafficking children through storage cabinets after noticing several of the products were “extremely overpriced.”
Instagram: @champagneandchanel, Instagram: @madluvv21 BLOCKED EXECUTIONS A judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out lethal injections hours before a man was scheduled to die US District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the death row inmates who are pursuing a series of legal challenges to the Trump administration's new lethal injection protocol should be given time to exhaust those efforts before the federal government can execute them.
The federal Bureau of Prisons was set to execute Daniel Lewis Lee at 4 p.m. on Monday, and two more executions were scheduled for later in the week. They would be the first inmates executed by the federal government since 2003.
The judge’s order came after two weeks of frantic litigation across multiple courts by the death row inmates as well as other parties seeking to stop or at least delay the executions.
It's been a year since Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the Trump administration planned to resume federal executions. Chutkan had previously halted the executions while the inmates challenged the new, single-drug lethal injection protocol announced by the administration.
SAME, BUT DIFFERENT Jimmy Fallon returned to the Tonight Show studio for the first time since lockdown, and everything has changed Fallon made his return to 30 Rockefeller Plaza last night, filming The Tonight Show from the studio for the first time since the coronavirus halted all TV and entertainment production four months ago.
With COVID tests, temperature checks, and no guests, Fallon’s return was a preview of what it’ll look like as other TV production ramps back up again. Here’s what it looked like.
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