By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sebastian Blanco scored in stoppage time to give the Portland Timbers a 2-2 draw with the Colorado Rapids on Wednesday night. Michael Barrios and Jonathan Lewis scored to help the Rapids extend their unbeaten streak to nine straight games, the longest current streak in
Continue ReadingJapan’s exports rose 26% in August from a year earlier, below analysts’ forecasts, as supply chain disruptions hit manufacturers. Preliminary trade data released Thursday showed the world’s third largest economy logged a trade deficit of 635 billion yen ($5.8 billion), as imports surged nearly 45%, driven largely by imports of oil, gas and coal. Exports
Continue ReadingJapan’s exports rose 26% in August from a year earlier, below analysts’ forecasts, as supply chain disruptions hit manufacturers. Preliminary trade data released Thursday showed the world’s third largest economy logged a trade deficit of 635 billion yen ($5.8 billion), as imports surged nearly 45%, driven largely by imports of oil, gas and coal. Exports
Continue ReadingBy Evan McMorris-Santoro, Linh Tran, Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, CNN Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US. “I don’t think a moral compass will let you ban books about equality and loving each other,”
Continue ReadingCNN By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Linh Tran, Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, CNN Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US. “I don’t think a moral compass will let you ban books about equality and loving each
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Republican state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is flexing the power of his office by filing a slew of lawsuits, including against Democratic cities and schools to stop mask mandates. For state attorneys general hoping to gain greater influence and advance
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Experts say there’s no scientific evidence showing that masks cause harm to kids’ health despite claims to the contrary on social media and elsewhere. The unfounded claims are circulating just as virus outbreaks are hitting many reopened U.S. schools, particularly those without mask mandates. Among the unfounded claims is
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has begun notifying governors and state refugee coordinators about how many Afghan evacuees from the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals are slated to be resettled in their states. State Department data obtained by The Associated Press shows that California is projected to take
Continue ReadingBy Neri Zilber The new Israeli government that toppled long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this summer is full of contradictions. There’s pro-peace leftists, pro-settlement right-wingers, pragmatic centrists and even for the first time an Arab Islamist party, all sitting together in one governing coalition. On the most divisive issue — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — there
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society. The prodigious effort to tax the rich and shift money into projects and programs would touch the lives of nearly every American.
Continue ReadingBy Laura Smith-Spark, CNN More than 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, a number of countries have decided it’s time to open up and adopt a “living with Covid” model. Some have enviable vaccination rates; others have decided that the costs of continued economic and social restrictions outweigh the benefits. Here are five nations to
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‘Now Hiring’ signs have been up for months all over Central Oregon, as businesses struggle and plead to find people to work. But the Bethlehem Inn in Bend may be turning a new corner.
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Lisa Byington is making history as the Milwaukee Bucks’ new play-by-play television broadcaster. The Bucks announced the hiring Wednesday and said Byington is the first woman to work as a full-time television play-by-play announcer for any major men’s professional sports team. Byington replaces Jim Paschke. Paschke retired after 35 seasons as the
Continue ReadingBy GEORGE HENRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Raimel Tapia hit a tiebreaking single off A.J. Minter in the 10th inning that lifted the Colorado Rockies to a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta’s NL East lead was trimmed to 3½ games over Philadelphia as the Braves attempt to win the division for
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death has pleaded not guilty to violating a teenager’s civil rights in a separate case that involved a restraint similar to the one used on Floyd. Derek Chauvin was convicted this year on state charges of
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister says it has canceled a contract with France for conventional submarines and instead will build nuclear-powered submarines using U.S. technology because of changing strategic conditions in the Asia-Pacific region. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says U.S. nuclear submarine technology wasn’t available to Australia in
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Burns resident Carolyn Ellis is leaving Bend feeling defeated.
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Brandon Marsh hit a tiebreaking solo homer off Michael Kopech in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2. Marsh drove a 101 mph, full-count fastball from Kopech over the wall in left-center for his second homer. Mike Mayers struck
Continue ReadingBy Eric Pallant, CNN To make your own sourdough starter, you need only repeat what ancient bakers discovered entirely by accident. The precise measurements are not essential. You are reproducing a technique that is 6,000 years old. Because microbial populations increase rapidly, demanding more and more food to stay alive, most modern descriptions for starting
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Danny Musovski scored moments after entering the game, Cristian Arango scored on a penalty kick and Los Angeles FC beat Austin FC 2-1 on Wednesday night. Musovski, who subbed on in the 76th minute, slipped behind the defense, ran onto a through ball by José Cifuentes and beat goalkeeper Brad Stuver
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