Contracts on the three major indices rose Sunday night, revamping the S&P 500 to reach record highs again. Gold futures (GC = F) hit higher Sunday night, after futures closed below $ 2,000 on Friday and posted their first weekly decline since June. This week, trading in Treasuries is also …
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Georgia’s Cherokee County closes third high school for concerns over COVID-19
A Georgia district school said Sunday it will close a third high school by the end of the month amid a COVID-19 outbreak. The Cherokee County School District has decided to close Creekview High School after 25 students tested positive for the coronavirus and 500 of its 1,800 students in …
Read More »San Diego County hits milestones to see from list to list
Local officials on Friday said San Diego County has met the metric that it can be removed from the state watch list, although confirmation of those numbers is pending state approval. For the third consecutive day, the province recorded an average of 14 days of less than 100 cases of …
Read More »The Good and Not So Good from Day 2 of 49ers Training Camp
SANTA CLARA – Here’s what stood out among the second non-padded practice of 49ers training camp. THE GOOD 1. Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Completed 10 of 14 passes (71 percent), threw no interceptions for the second day in a row and threw the best deep pass on the sideline I have …
Read More »Review ‘Lovecraft Country’: HBO drama deals with Jim Crow Era
Pulp noir meets Lovecraftian horror in a series perfectly suited to the madness of the year 2020. With its spherical mix of paranormal and social threats, “Lovecraft Country” uses horror to comment on American race relations. It rejuvenates the genre by not only blackening its heroes, but by putting the …
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