UNEWS, Top stories for U.S. Latinos in English

Dr. Fauci says widespread implementation of a vaccine is needed to bring an end to the pandemic; the president and the head of the CDC at odds over the effectiveness of face masks and timeline for vaccine distribution; massive flooding along the Florida-Alabama border after Hurricane Sally slams into the coast; and an indigenous Mexican woman popularizes her traditional cuisine on new a Netflix series.

Sally makes landfall as a category 2 hurricane lashing the Alabama coast line; 70 fires are burning across 10 west coast states as President Trump dismisses link to climate change; the president faces tough questions from undecided voters on his pandemic response and calls for racial justice during town hall meeting.

Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for a potential category 2 hurricane; a record 3 million acres have burned in wildfires on the West Coast as President Trump dismisses climate change threat; Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden visits Florida in an effort to win Latino voters.

Death toll is rising in the devastating West Coast fires, nearly 100 fires have burned millions of acres across California, Oregon, and Washington; President Trump insists the nation is turning a corner on coronavirus during Nevada rally, kicking off his Western swing; number of dead due to Covid-19 rises to 194,000 as states start seeing a drop in cases.

Wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington are forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate as the death toll continues rising; President Trump defended his handling of the pandemic, saying the nation is turning a corner as the CDC projects 217,000 deaths by first week of October; Americans commemorate the 19th anniversary of 9/11 with tributes altered by coronavirus.

President Trump calls Bob Woodward’s book a political hit job and defends his administration’s pandemic response; cases continue rising in colleges and universities as the US reports 34,000 new cases yesterday alone; wildfires are burning in the Pacific Northwest, destroying hundreds of homes and triggering mass evacuations.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca is forced to pause its coronavirus vaccine human trials after a volunteer develops an adverse reaction; Joe Biden heads to Michigan for another socially distanced campaign stop; wildfires in California setting a record number this year with more than 2.2 million acres burned so far.

Coronavirus-related deaths reach 190,000 as experts warn of a double threat with the start of the flu season; President Trump denies making disparaging comments on fallen troops as he ramps up attacks on the military’s top brass; and California is facing a record number of fires as 2 million acres have now burned across the state.

A man sought in connection in the death of a pro-Trump protester in Portland, Oregon, last week is dead after being shot by officers who were trying to apprehend him; a key model predicts the US will reach 400,000 deaths in January; 1.4 million jobs were added in the last month according to the Labor Department but the country is still a long way from regaining the amount of jobs lost since the start of the pandemic.

The CDC is telling states to be ready to distribute a vaccine by November 1st, just days before the election; Biden meets with Blake family during visit to Kenosha; and can the Latino vote in key battleground states like Florida and Texas sway the elections?