California’s top prosecutor is opening a civil rights investigation into how delayed evacuations impacted a historically Black community ravaged by one of the January 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires.

California has gone from worst to first in the rate of coronavirus infections.

(AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a single-car rollover crash on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, police announced. The crash occurred shortly before 7:15 a.m. Police said Woods was transported to a local hospital by ambulance for his injuries. Police said he had to be extracted from the vehicle with the “jaws of life” tool. Woods’ agent Mark Steinberg told Golf Digest: “Tiger Woods was in a single-car accident this morning in California where he suffered multiple leg injuries. Golf star Tiger Woods was injured in a vehicle rollover in Los Angeles County, authorities said.

of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP)Of the world’s 2 million COVID deaths, nearly 20 percent have taken place in the United States as of Jan. 17, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Each week, we’ll provide an update on each state’s total number of COVID-19 deaths and how they compare to other states. Local: Coronavirus in Michigan: Here’s what to know Jan. 17, 2021Below is the total coronavirus death count for each state in the U.S. on Jan. 17, 2021. Graph: See how COVID cases compare in all 50 states hereAs of Jan. 17, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the United States is 397,494 -- the highest in the world. More: Global COVID: Tracking countries with the most virus cases, deaths on Jan. 17, 2021

For months, California did many of the right things to avoid a catastrophic surge from the pandemic. In California, the southern half of the state has seen the worst effects, from the agricultural San Joaquin Valley to the Mexico border. On Thursday, the total number of California deaths surpassed 25,000, joining only New York and Texas at that milestone. And public health directives were never adequately enforced. Public health officials, he said, need to find a way to reach people who have given up or not followed rules on social distancing and masks.