By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Delta variant continues to be a major threat to America’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and getting more vaccine shots into arms is a way to combat it, an expert says. The highly contagious, aggressive variant was first detected in India and has made its way to the majority of
Continue ReadingNew York’s Pride, which launched as an anti-police march, is now embroiled in a controversy over uniformed police participation. CNN’s Polo Sandoval has more.
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Jorgensen and Polo Sandoval, CNN When NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea took the podium Thursday to address this year’s preparations for New York’s Pride weekend, his comments were tinged with disappointment and pride for his own. “This is what makes this department so special,” Shea said. “We are far from perfect. But you look
Continue ReadingBy Alta Spells, CNN The pilot of a small airplane was killed when it crashed into a home in North Logan, Utah, Saturday night, according to authorities. First responders were notified of the crash after receiving a call around 8:40 p.m., North Park Police Chief Ulysses Black told CNN. When fire crews arrived, they confirmed
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN Julie Moore recalls harrowing experiences from the pandemic inside the Philadelphia nursing home where she works. As the virus spread throughout the facility last year, emergency responders came and went regularly, taking yet another resident running low on oxygen to the hospital. Staff members were infected and some died, leaving a
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Two Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and several bystanders helped rescue two men who were drowning at Lake Billy Chinook Saturday evening, Undersheriff Marc Heckathorn said.
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Senator Ron Wyden told reporters online Saturday he has been working to make sure federal, state and local agencies have the resources they need to deal with the “very grave threat” of several large Oregon wildfires at the same time.
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN Linda Johnson-Thomas’ grandfather worked at the Virginia Theological Seminary for more than a decade, first as a farm laborer before moving up to head janitor. Her grandparents lived in a little white house on campus with their four children, including her mother. But until two years ago, she had no idea
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Young people got a chance to take a flight, learn about being a pilot and even take the controls during a ‘Young Eagles’ program Saturday at Prineville Airport.
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Floats, plenty of horses, rodeo royalty and free candy made for lots of fun Saturday at the 75th annual Crooked River Roundup Rodeo Parade.
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Despite the heat, there was a long line at the Old Mill Ticket Mill on Saturday for a special set of $20 tickets for 20 concerts at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. Marketing Director Beau Eastes said the tickets all sold out before 1 p.m. three hours after sales began, and the first three shows to
Continue ReadingAJ Willingham, CNN There are some things that cannot be properly explained within the lines of your average news website. “Ice Planet Barbarians” is one of those things. The science fiction romance series chronicles a band of human women stranded on — you guessed it — an ice planet, along with the hunky blue aliens
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Here are several statements issued by Gov. Kate Brown, legislative leaders and others upon Saturday’s adjournment of the 2021 Legislature:
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN It was a bad week for the Big Lie — former President Donald Trump and his allies’ false claims that widespread fraud is to blame for his 2020 election loss. In one battleground state, Republican senators issued a report that eviscerated Trump’s lies about voter fraud. In another, a judge undercut
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue had a busy Friday night, with three simultaneous rescue missions for an injured hiker near Broken Top, a lost hiker near the South Sister Climbers Trail and a lost motorist east of Bend.
Continue ReadingBy Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Nima Elbagir and Barbara Arvanitidis, CNN A few scattered human bones lay on the rocky ground, along with a broken skull and several half-burned identification cards. That is all the villagers could find, six months after Ethiopian troops rounded up their loved ones and shot them at point-blank range, throwing
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu and Salai TZ, CNN Business Myanmar’s military junta is using torture to extract information from detainees on the whereabouts of senior opposition members and activist leaders, according to an American citizen and journalist who was recently released from a Yangon prison. Nathan Maung, 44, was detained for more
Continue ReadingUS-Burmese journalist Nathan Maung tells CNN of torture and conditions in Myanmar’s notorious Insein prison after he was detained for spreading “fake news”. Maung is safely in the US, but fears for his family still in Myanmar – and the treatment of his TV news producer Hanthar Han Thar Nyein who was arrested at the same time – but remains in prison. CNN’s Anna Coren reports.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN)– La viuda del controvertido empresario del software antivirus John McAfee aseguró que su esposo no era un suicida, y culpó a las autoridades de Estados Unidos de «esta tragedia» después de que fuera encontrado muerto en su celda en una prisión cerca de Barcelona este miércoles. McAfee, de 75 años, tenía múltiples
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Un pasajero resultó herido el viernes después de saltar de un vuelo de United Express que se movía lentamente desde las zonas las puertas en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles, dijo a CNN un portavoz de la policía de LAX. Aproximadamente a las 7:10 p.m. hora local, el hombre
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