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LOS ANGELES, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Public health experts have warned the United States is running out of time to contain the monkeypox outbreak as nearly 3,000 confirmed monkeypox cases have been reported in the country.

The state of New York had the most cases, with 900, followed by California with 356 and Florida with 247, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Given the testing bottlenecks in the United States, monkeypox cases are likely being undercounted, health experts said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people were killed and at least five others were injured after gunfire erupted Sunday at a Los Angeles park where a car show was being held.

The LA Police Department said the shooting occurred around 3:50 p.m. at Peck Park in LA’s San Pedro neighborhood. The LAPD tweeted it was not an active shooter situation but provided no more information.

LAPD Capt. Kelly Muniz said during a news conference that the casualties were reported at the baseball diamond. Police have not identified the victims.

WAWONA, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size Saturday into one of California’s largest wildfires of the year, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people and shutting off power to more than 2,000 homes and businesses.

WAWONA, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size Saturday and prompted evacuations even as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias.

The Oak Fire, which began Friday afternoon southwest of the park near Midpines in Mariposa County, grew to 10.2 square miles (26.5 square kilometers) by Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.

LOS ANGELES, Jul 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 90 million yesterday, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. COVID-19 case count rose to 90,066,295, with a total of 1,025,796 deaths, as of 1:40 p.m. Eastern Time, yesterday, the data showed.

The United States remains the worst country hit by the pandemic, with the world’s most cases and deaths.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The smiling face of Kristin Smart still looks out from a billboard in front of attorney James Murphy Jr.’s law office more than 25 years after the college freshman vanished from a campus on California’s picturesque central coast.

It once offered a $75,000 reward to help find the college student, but these days the billboard simply says: “Justice For Kristin.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, California — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security.

LOS ANGELES, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The newer and most contagious Omicron subvariants, known as BA.4 and BA.5, now make up over 80 percent of COVID-19 infections in the United States, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday.

The BA.5 subvariant accounted for 65 percent of new infections in the latest week ending July 9, while BA.4 accounted for 16.3 percent of new infections, CDC data show.

BA.5 has become the dominant variant in the United States.

LOS ANGELES, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and three injured in shootings at four 7-Eleven stores in Southern California on early Monday morning, authorities said.

A shooting occurred at a 7-Eleven store in Brea, a city in northern Orange County, at about 4:18 a.m. local time (1118 GMT), leaving a male dead, according to the Brea Police Department.

"Our preliminary investigation suggests that the clerk was killed during a robbery. We later learned that a similar incident took place at a 7-Eleven at La Habra," the department tweeted.

LOS ANGELES, Jul 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Three men were killed and two others were wounded early yesterday morning, in a shooting at a house party in Southern California, local media reported, citing police.

Officers responded to a report of gunshots at 00:45 a.m. local time (0745 GMT), in the 8100 block of Leeds Street in Downey, a city located in south-east Los Angeles County, reported KABC-TV, the West Coast flagship station of the ABC television network.

The officers found four men and a woman had been shot, the report said.