The festival, which is scheduled to take place from Friday until Sunday in San Francisco, comes in the wake of several shootings and San Francisco Mayor London Breed assured people they would be safe. Additional fencing, police officers and private security will be at the music festival. Outside Lands also implemented a bag policy in an effort to keep festival-goers safe. People were recommended to attend bag-free, but acknowledged that wasn’t always a possibility....

More cases of the COVID-19, which was first detected in China’s Wuhan city of the Hubei province, have now been confirmed outside the country than within. China has more than 81,400 cases, while nearly 260,000 cases have been reported in nearly 166 other countries. South Korea has also seen a large number of recoveries, with nearly a third of its infected population having recovered from the virus. Italy, despite having the largest number of confirmed cases outside China, has also seen recoveries than deaths since the outbreak began....

Greg Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, estimated that 11 million people would lose at least some of their benefits across 35 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the AP reported. Of those 11 million, about 8.9 million are expected to lose all benefits, while 2.1 are estimated to lose only the extra $300 federal aid. In an effort to motivate people receiving unemployment benefits to return to work, 25 states have already frozen the extra federal benefits for about 3....

More than 153,000 of the affected vehicles are 2004 to 2006 Ford Ranger trucks, with the manufacturer looking to find 45 missing and potentially dangerous Takata air bags, according to The Associated Press. Ford also lists Ranger models from the years 2005 to 2011, Edge SUVs from 2007 to 2010, Fusions from 2006 to 2012, Mustangs from 2005 to 2014 and Ford GTs from 2005 to 2006 as vehicles that have been recalled....

According to a press release from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the seizure occurred on September 10, when CBP officers at the Port of Louisville inspected 32 shipments “containing counterfeit designer watches.” CBP said in the press release that if the watches were authentic, they would be worth $57.84 million. Among the 32 shipments, CBP agents discovered a total of 2,168 watches that were determined to be counterfeit by their “trade experts” at the Centers of Excellence and Expertise....

Between April 19 to 28, researchers collected blood samples from 15,101 shoppers at 99 New York grocery stores, across 26 counties which house 87 percent of the state’s population. Of the total volunteers, 1,887 had antibodies to the coronavirus which causes COVID-19. The team used this information to estimate how many people may have caught the virus across the state by March 29, and arrived at 2,139,300. The findings were published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology....

Cases rose to 952,171 on Thursday, and the United States remains the epicenter of the outbreak with 216,722 cases, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The virus has claimed the lives of 48,320 people and as the death toll rises, so does the public level of fear and panic. The big picture of the situation is now “painfully clear,” according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. However, he also reiterated that many people who contract the virus will recover....

Tens of thousands of voters have become former Republicans this month in states including Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, Maryland, Colorado and Florida, according to a Wednesday report from The Hill, citing state statistics. A far smaller number of voters dropped affiliation with the Democratic party during the same time. In Pennsylvania, almost 10,000 Republicans had parted ways with the GOP by January 25. Of those, 3,476 changed their registration to the Democratic Party, while the rest moved to a third party or remained unaffiliated....

Conducted by The Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, the survey asked 1,000 adults about their lives during the pandemic, as well as what they expect their lives to be like after the crisis. When it comes to wearing masks, 43 percent of those surveyed said they plan to wear them in crowded places. However, 54 percent said they do not. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they plan to wear masks when they are sick, according to the poll....

White evangelical Christians have been a key base of support for former President Donald Trump since his 2016 presidential campaign, with about eight in 10 voters from the religious demographic voting for Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. During the January 6 attack against the U.S. Capitol by a mob of the president’s supporters, many carried Christian banners or symbols as prominent evangelical Christian leaders promoted Trump’s false claims that widespread voter fraud led to President Joe Biden’s electoral victory ahead of the riot....

A total of 5,816 Americans voluntarily relinquished their citizenship in the first half of 2020, compared to the 2,072 who gave it up in all of 2019, according to research conducted by Bambridge Accountants New York. The first six months of 2020 saw a 1,210 percent increase in renunciation compared to June through December 2019, in which just 444 cases were recorded. Alistair Bambridge, a partner at Bambridge Accountants, attributed the sharp increase to the coronavirus pandemic and U....

Several sources have suggested that the former Gunners forward will return to Emirates Stadium at the end of the 2017-18 campaign. He is, however, currently filling a directorial position at Ajax, having taken that job back in 2012. Overmars is under contract in Amsterdam until 2020 and has offered no indication that he intends to break that agreement. “I’m happy at Ajax,” the ex-Netherlands international told NOS. “There’s nothing happening with other clubs....

And sometimes, while in a match, you might pull off a nice killstreak or some other feat you want to brag about to your friends. If you do, you don’t have to worry about recording all your gameplay with an external program or hardware. Instead, you can save your Overwatch 2 match highlights using a system built into the game. One of the most important aspects of any competitive game is looking at what you did right and what you did wrong in previous matches....

The news of Blitzchung, a Hearthstone player who was banned by Blizzard Entertainment for saying “Free Hong Kong” during the Grandmasters event, has made it hard to stay “focused” on Overwatch, team members said, adding that they feel that it’s important they represent the “face of Hong Kong people proud of representing their country” at Blizzcon. The team set up a fundraiser in August because they were unable to afford to travel from Hong Kong to Anaheim, California....

In a Facebook post, Idaho State Police said that Sgt. Brandalyn Crapo responded to several calls from concerned motorists who spotted an owl sitting in the median on I-84. Despite the traffic, Crapo managed to find the owl, which was “obviously in some distress.” Police said the owl’s talons managed to get tangled in the plastic, but they did not clarify if the plastic was stuck to the roadway or if the plastic was heavy and therefore prevented the bird from flying....

A cash-value policy creates savings that you can withdraw or borrow against. You also need cash values to keep your coverage in force, at affordable premiums, in old age. Term insurance, by contrast, contains no cash. You don’t expect to keep it forever because you’re investing somewhere else. Some cash-value policies were built to last. But many others are tottering, especially those bought in the 1980s when insurers projected double-digit rates of return....

In the video, posted to the page @remy_woof, an adorable Golden Retriever named Remy can be seen lying on the floor in front of his younger brother Rocco, who is in a dog crate while the text reads, “They ask ‘How’s crate training going?’” After a few seconds Remy opens the crate with his mouth, releasing his puppy brother. The video caption reads, “Everybody has a ride or die in your life, and that includes Rocco!...

Michael Pratt and Matthew Wolfe, owners of the GirlsDoPorn website and its GirlsDoToys affiliate, along with producer Ruben Garcia and administrative assistant Valorie Mosser, used deception and false promises to “lure” young women into performing pornography, the statement alleges. According to financial records, the two websites generated revenue upwards of $17 million. The women had responded to ads for modeling jobs—with promises to receive $5,000—but were then allegedly coerced to perform sexual acts on film....

The Germany star arrived at London Colney on Thursday where he will be assessed by the club doctor, with Ozil missing Arsenal’s last two Premier League games through illness. Ozil will sit out the FA Cup third round match against Preston on Saturday but looks set to return for the trip to Swansea a week later. 28-year-old record signing Ozil is currently locked in contract talks over a new long term extension with the club....