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The State of California has banned singing in any indoor religious services, even with masks on, under new guidelines  issued by the Department of Public Health to control the spread of the coronavirus.

Officials in New York’s Rockland County announced on Wednesday that they had issued subpoenas to eight people allegedly infected by the coronavirus for refusing to speak with contact tracers voluntarily.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott faces a backlash of fury after issuing an order requiring the wearing of masks in most of the state’s 254 counties. The order issued on the day before the Independence Day weekend begins, requires the wearing of masks in counties with 20 or more positive COVID-19 cases to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Joe Biden claimed Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s “weak” stance on China empowered the communist nation to implement a crackdown on Hong Kong without fear of reprisal.

The National Basketball Association has had an additional nine players test positive for the coronavirus. That number brings the league’s total to 25, and adds to already heightened concerns that the anticipated restart of play later this month may not happen.

The NBA hopes to soon be back in action in their “Bubble” at Disney World. However, if that restart ever happens, the league will do it without one of their legendary voices in attendance.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of migrants packed like cargo in a tractor-trailer at a Texas interior immigration checkpoint. The agents found 66 from five different countries.

The NFL will cut its preseason in half and push back the start of exhibition play so teams have more time to train following a virtual offseason made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.

Environmental groups pressured states to resume taxing single-use plastic bags, claiming reusable bags will not spread COVID-19.

President Donald Trump told Fox Business Network’s Blake Burman on Wednesday that he supports wearing masks to prevent transmission of coronavirus, but that he did not want to make wearing masks mandatory.

TEL AVIV — Israel clocked 980 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily tally since the beginning of the outbreak in mid-March.

LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Eric Garcetti told a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon that the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the Los Angeles area were, in fact, partly responsible for a recent spike in coronavirus cases.

Coronavirus-linked deaths across the U.S. have been dropping over the past few weeks, even as the country hit record levels in the number of new confirmed cases in recent days, a Breitbart News analysis of the seven-day average of fatalities revealed.

Canada Day’s annual fireworks on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, will be replaced with “virtual fireworks” and digital shows as part of the government’s lockdown response to the coronavirus outbreak.

A Southern California hospital reports that Coronavirus patients are crossing the border from Mexico to seek treatment. The surge created a crisis in regional hospitals, prompting a patient transfer system across the state.

California’s decision to move coronavirus-infected patients from one prison to another allegedly caused a massive outbreak in San Quentin State Prison, which had previously been unaffected by the disease, according to the New York Times.

The director of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced Monday that a team would be sent to China to investigate the origins of the deadly coronavirus, which quickly swept across the world.

DENVER (AP) — The Denver Nuggets say they’ve closed their facilities after two members of the team’s traveling party tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend. A third tested positive this week.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver noted on Tuesday that the spread of the coronavirus may pose too big a threat for the league to carry out its plans to resume the 2020 season.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), during a tense exchange on Capitol Hill Tuesday, excoriated Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials, accusing them of spreading “undue fear” over the novel coronavirus pandemic and being puffed up with “fatal conceit.”

The number of new Chinese coronavirus cases in the United States could reach 100,000 a day if the country fails to turn things around, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, predicted while testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday.

Colorado Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond plans to sit out this season to be with his family and help grow youth baseball in his hometown in Florida.

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning: “THE LONE WARRIOR!” He is under pressure from all sides, as the nation faces several crises.

Monday on “Fox News @ Night,” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R-TX) insisted the doom and gloom portrayed by the media regarding COVID-19 and Texas was not reflective of reality.

House Coronavirus Crisis Select Subcommittee Chairman Jim Clyburn (D) on Monday threatened not to allow Republicans to attend hearings in person without wearing a mask.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) announced Monday that there will be a delay in school reopenings and closed bars, gyms, movie theaters, and water parks after a recent surge of COVID-19 cases in the state.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced Monday that residents in the state will be required to wear facial coverings in indoor public spaces in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The Washington Nationals will try to defend their World Series title without at least two holdovers from last year’s team, including one of the faces of the franchise.

At least 17 states had reportedly paused or rolled back their phased reopening plans as of Monday to hinder the growing coronavirus outbreaks across the country.

Los Angeles County may run out of hospital beds in the next two to three weeks because of a new surge in coronavirus infections dating to the period in which Black Lives Matter protests broke out.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has suffered a significant drop in his approval rating during his continued slow-walking of the reopening of his state as the coronavirus pandemic recedes.

TEL AVIV — More than half of COVID-19 patients displayed symptoms of respiratory distress even several weeks after recovery, a new study by Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center has found.

Minnesota has witnessed a spike in the number of younger people who are testing positive for COVID-19 as the pandemic continues to grow in the United States.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered all bars in Los Angeles County to close, due to a rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases there in the last several days.

COVID-19 cases in the states of Texas, Florida, and Arizona increased over the two weeks and three days between June 9 and June 26.

Tehran — Iran said Sunday it will make mask-wearing mandatory in certain areas and has allowed virus-hit provinces to reimpose restrictions, as novel coronavirus deaths mounted in the Middle East’s worst-hit country.