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The article provides an update on the resurgence of COVID-19 in the Midwest, South, and California as of August 2, 2020. Topics mentioned include the decision of government officials in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois to retighten restrictions on residents and businesses, thoughts from infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony S. Fauci about the availability of an effective vaccine by the end of 2020 or early 2021, and an increase in daily infections in Japan by over 50 percent in July 2020.

PALO ALTO, Calif. IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg, the ones that the doomsayers proclaim -- with glee or dread -- will go the way of vinyl records. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over the last few months, a steady stream of visitors to Palo Alto, Calif., called an old friend's home number and asked if he was well enough to entertain visitors, perhaps for the last time. In February, Steven P. Jobs had learned that, after years of fighting cancer, his time was becoming shorter. He quietly told a few acquaintances, and they, in turn, whispered to others. And so a pilgrimage began. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

1:25 p.m. Updated Arnold Schwarzenegger has led a life that is made for storytelling: Austrian immigrant comes to the United States as an elite bodybuilder, gains fame and wealth as an international movie star, marries a Kennedy and, even more improbably, is elected governor of California. Now Mr. Schwarzenegger, 64, is promising to write about his experiences in a memoir, expected to land in bookstores in October 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Santa Cruz, Calif., volunteers will re-enact every word and movement in the famous courtroom scene. In Monroeville, Ala., residents dressed in 1930s garb will read aloud from memorable passages. In Rhinebeck, N.Y., Oblong Books will host a party with Mocktails and a performance by the indie band the Boo Radleys. All summer ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' will be relived through at least 50 events around the country, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of a book that became a cultural touchstone and an enduring staple of high-school reading programs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Slamdance Film Festival will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a series of events, beginning with screenings in Los Angeles and New York of two indie films that originally showed at the festival. Christopher Nolan will host the screening of his film ''Following'' (1998) on Friday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (tickets at slamdance.com) and Steven Soderbergh will be the host for his film ''Schizopolis'' (1996) on Sept. 16 at the IFC Center in Manhattan (ifccenter.com). Both films will be followed by question-and-answer sessions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Jose Repertory Theater in California has named Rick Lombardo as its new artistic director. Mr. Lombardo, the departing artistic director of the New Repertory Theater in Watertown, Mass., will begin his new job on Oct. 24. The San Jose Repertory Theater operates on a $5.9 million annual budget. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Barry Feinstein, the rock 'n' roll photographer, was digging through his archives last year when he came across a long-forgotten bundle of pictures, dozens of dark, moody snapshots of Hollywood in the early 1960s. And tucked next to the photographs was a set of prose poems, written around the same time by an old friend: Bob Dylan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Robert Rankin, an uncommitted superdelegate from California, arrived home on Monday afternoon to find a last-minute telephone message from a surrogate for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, presumably to ask -- again -- for his support. But after months of holding out, and after listening to endless pitches from both sides, Mr. Rankin said he was still determined to wait until Wednesday, after Montana and South Dakota had voted, to announce his decision. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her husband had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, adding, ''We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.'' Her remarks were met with quick criticism from the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, and within hours of making them Mrs. Clinton expressed regret, saying, ''The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,'' referring to the recent diagnosis of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's brain tumor. She added, ''And I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that television host Oprah Winfrey collected around $ 3 million in support of Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama in the fund raising campaign in California. It also discusses whether Winfrey could air her support for Obama on the television program, powerhouse talk show, or not. According to the article, commentary by the media does not count as a campaign unless the candidate owned the broadcasting station, hence she could do so.

The article reports on the shutdown of the imprint ReganBooks by the publishing company HarperCollins Inc. on March 1, 2007. Its closure was determined after its editor Judith Regan was fired last month. A huge public outcry was made over a book and television contract of Regan Books with the football player O. J. Simpson. The company has also decided to layoff its 10 employees in the Los Angeles, California office.

The article reports that the Gavin Newsom, Governor of California has announced that the state will increase its efforts to regulate electronic cigarettes with new health-warning standards, a million dollar campaign to raise awareness about the products' harmful health effects.