By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Drew Rasmussen and three relievers combined for a three-hitter, Brandon Lowe and Ji-Man Choi both homered and the Tampa Bay Rays coasted past the Houston Astros 7-0, giving them the No. 1 seed in the American League playoffs. The Astros lost for the fifth time in
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 22-year-old white supremacist has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for bursting into a Southern California synagogue with a semiautomatic rifle on the last day of Passover in 2019, killing one worshipper and wounding three others. An agreement with prosecutors
Continue ReadingBy Ali Zaslav and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday night that Democrats had reached an agreement with Republicans on a stopgap bill to keep the government funded through early December and will vote Thursday on the measure to avert a shutdown. “We have an agreement on the CR — the
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has expressed willingness to restore stalled communication lines with South Korea to promote peace in early October, while he shrugged off recent U.S. offers for dialogue. Kim’s statement is an apparent effort to drive a wedge
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer MITO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s next prime minister says he believes raising incomes is the only way to get the world’s third-largest economy growing again. Growth had stalled even before the pandemic hit, stymied by longstanding problems including a shrinking population, growing inequality and stagnant incomes. Fumio Kishida won
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, Liz Stark and Ella Nilsen, CNN The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials announced Wednesday. “For the species proposed for delisting today, the protections of the (Endangered Species
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6 — and in a surprise move, plans to cooperate with the Justice Department and potentially testify against other alleged rioters. The deal with Keller suggests prosecutors might try
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6 — and in a surprise move, plans to cooperate with the Justice Department and potentially testify against other alleged rioters. The deal with Keller suggests prosecutors might
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CNN By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden wasn’t pitching in Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, where players and spectators alike held the key to his political fate. But even off the mound, it was clearer than ever the moment has arrived for Biden to play the closer. His presence in in
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden wasn’t pitching in Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, where players and spectators alike held the key to his political fate. But even off the mound, it was clearer than ever the moment has arrived for Biden to play the closer. His presence in in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden wasn’t pitching in Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, where players and spectators alike held the key to his political fate. But even off the mound, it was clearer than ever the moment has arrived for Biden to play the closer. His presence in in
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN A man in northeastern Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the first human case of the virus in the state since 1954, health officials said Tuesday. The man, who was in his 80s, woke up last month
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer and Alex Rogers, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin are at a crossroads over President Joe Biden’s agenda to transform the government’s role in the country. The Democratic leader said Wednesday that the White House needs to sign off on a multitrillion-dollar bill
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly higher after a day of mixed results on Wall Street. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index fell 0.4% after the release of disappointing factory and retail sales data. Shares also fell in Hong Kong but other benchmarks advanced. On Wednesday, the S&P 500 held on to a
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Veteran amateur radio operator William M. (Bill) Johnson, 86, of Bend, died on Monday, Sept. 20. He was known to his ham (amateur) radio friends by his call sign, N7RGB.
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The only preschool to have a hearing-impaired instructor teaches kids sign language.
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The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office now can be more specific about emergencies, and those who sign up for alerts can be more specific about whether more help is needed.
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La depresión tropical veinte se ha formado en el Atlántico, informó el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. El sistema está ubicado en el Atlántico oriental, a 869 km al sur de las islas de Cabo Verde. Los vientos máximos sostenidos son de 56 km/h y se pronostica un mayor fortalecimiento. Esto es
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Health care workers who were once saluted for saving lives in the COVID-19 outbreak are now being issued panic buttons and ditching their scrubs before going out in public to avoid harassment. Across the country, doctors and nurses on the front lines of
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Así es: los hijos de la pareja Kunis-Kutcher se bañaron. Lo sabemos gracias a un divertido video que Ashton Kutcher publicó el miércoles en su cuenta oficial de Instagram en el que se ve a su esposa Mila Kunis de pie en el baño mientras sus hijos se limpian. (El video es
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