By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is planning to raise the refugee cap for fiscal year 2022 to 125,000, in line with the goal President Joe Biden set. Biden previously conceded that his goal of 125,000 refugee admissions within the first fiscal year of his presidency “will still be hard to hit,” but the
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inlsee has asked the federal government for assistance staffing hospitals and long-term care facilities in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Inslee wrote Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID-19 coordinator, that the state Department of Health has requested 1,200 clinical and non-clinical staff, and that he was requesting
Continue ReadingTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes have proposed a $1.7 billion development in Tempe that will include a hockey arena. Renderings by the Coyotes include proposed restaurants, shops and apartments on a 46-acre tract of land. The team says the arena would be funded by private investors but would seek city sales tax revenues
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr underwent tests on his injured right ankle, but coach Jon Gruden expects him to be able to play this week. Carr got hurt after throwing a TD pass to Foster Moreau in the third quarter of Sunday’s 26-17 victory over the Pittsburgh
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s latest major software update — packed with features to help people better focus, connect with others on FaceTime and keep track of medical records, including vaccine status and test results — is now available for download. Although it’s not a massive design overhaul, many of changes coming to
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble gum and super glue” approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark after Hurricane Ida. The lawsuit was filed Saturday against Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans, which provide power to
Continue ReadingBy ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas gamer whose online dispute with another player sparked a deadly hoax call will have to face a jury after violating the terms of a diversion deal he made with prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren granted on Monday the government’s motion to resume
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a pilot in connection with brutal attacks on women in Southern California where he allegedly choked them into unconsciousness and assaulted them in the bushes off a running trail. Robert Yucas faces life in prison if convicted in the case filed
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Barcelona needed a 90th-minute equalizer by defender Ronald Araújo to salvage a 1-1 home draw against Granada in the Spanish league. The draw comes less than a week after a demoralizing home loss to Bayern Munich at Camp Nou Stadium in the Champions League in the
Continue ReadingNEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — Officials say an employee at a school outside of Portland, Oregon went to work in blackface last week and has been placed on leave. KTVL-TV reports a message from the Newberg School District said, “It is important to remember how Blackface has been used to misrepresent Black communities and do harm.”
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble gum and super glue” approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark after Hurricane Ida. The lawsuit was filed Saturday against Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans, which provide power to
Continue ReadingBy BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trump-era policy as it disperses thousands of Haitian migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in and around the small South Texas city of Del Rio. The Department of Homeland Security is invoking the public health law known as Title 42
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — Un menor de edad fue detenido el lunes tras tiroteo en una escuela en Newport News, Virginia, que dejó dos personas heridas de bala y otras dos lesionadas, dijo la policía el lunes por la tarde. El tiroteo ocurrió el lunes por la mañana en Heritage High School. Dos jóvenes, hombre y
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A date has been set for the trial of a former Fort Worth police officer who was charged with murder after shooting a Black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door in 2019. Aaron Dean’s trial is scheduled to
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In celebration of National Lifeline Awareness Week, the Oregon Public Utility Commission is reminding Oregonians about Lifeline, a federal and state government program that provides discounted or free phone or high speed internet service to qualifying low-income households.
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN Despite all the scientific and medical advances of the past 103 years, the Covid-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 flu pandemic did. More than 675,000 people in the United States have died from Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. That surpasses the estimated US death toll from
Continue ReadingSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Federal authorities say they’re examining the fatal shooting of a Black man by a Georgia state trooper last year during an attempted traffic stop involving a broken tail light. The office of acting U.S. Attorney David Estes in Savannah said Monday that it was consulting with the FBI about the August
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Four people, all of whom just six months ago had no formal spaceflight training, strapped themselves into a SpaceX capsule atop a 200-foot-tall rocket and took a three-day spin around Earth. After splashing down off the coast of Florida on Saturday, the passengers emerged from their capsule, smiling and waving,
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians are scrambling to find jobs, food and housing after being deported from the U.S. to a country that they left almost a decade ago and is now largely unfamiliar: The president has been assassinated, an earthquake has destroyed their relatives’
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Dan Mullen says quarterback Anthony Richardson will “probably do a little bit more at practice” this week before the 11th-ranked Gators host Tennessee. Richardson was held out of Saturday’s 31-29 loss to Alabama as a precaution after the redshirt freshman strained his right
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