Health officials will be on high alert for germs as millions of soccer fans gather for World Cup matches.

California is heading toward an election with its two marquee races defined by uncertainty, while two outsider candidates are looking to crack open the state’s durable Democratic hierarchy.

(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)ALBANY, N.Y. – At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, two Democratic governors on opposite ends of the country were hailed as heroes for their leadership in a crisis. The COVID-19 virus has been an especially painful illustration of that point. “New York and California are under a magnifying glass,” said Jared Leopold, former spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association. First, the state’s Democratic attorney general chastised the Cuomo administration for minimizing the death toll at nursing homes by excluding certain fatalities from the count. “Any of these Democratic governors are going to come off these initial highs they got that were better than Republican governors,” Stutzman, a Republican, argued.

This New York nanny is willing to got to jail for a cat, and it's not even hers. Rebecca Katz yes, that's her real name faces petty larceny charges after she swiped her former Long Island employers' cat, Tigger, claiming that the family had threatened to put the 15-year-old animal to sleep. Katz said she offered to take the cat in, but the family declined. But she stands by her decision nonetheless, adding that she's willing to go to jail for Tigger. RELATED STORIESWhy Losing a Pet Is So HardHate to Say It, but Your Cat May Be FatPicture Purrrfect?