By The Associated Press Timeline of the National Basketball Association during the 1990s. The timeline includes milestone moments in the league’s history and key moments off the court as the NBA celebrates its 75th season.
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN On the heels of concerning new lab and animal experiments suggesting that BA.2 may be capable of causing more severe disease than the original Omicron strain, two new studies are helping to show how well human immunity is defending against this strain in the real world. BA.2 is about 30% more
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political stalemate over Ohio’s new legislative maps has plunged the state into confusion. As members of a new map-drawing commission defended themselves against potential contempt charges for failing to meet the latest court order requiring them to stop gerrymandering, top leaders were urging lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has agreed to dismiss a nearly 3-year-old lawsuit over a Bible displayed on a table at a New Hampshire veterans hospital after the plaintiffs’ lawyer proposed a separate display and sought to work with the hospital. Two U.S. Air Force veterans filed the lawsuit
Continue ReadingBy ALEX SANZ Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The former head of the National Space Council tells The Associated Press that tensions over eastern Ukraine should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space. Scott Pace served as executive secretary of the space council under President Donald Trump
Continue ReadingBy ALEX SANZ Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The former head of the National Space Council tells The Associated Press that tensions over eastern Ukraine should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space. Scott Pace served as executive secretary of the space council under President Donald Trump
Continue ReadingBUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A Montana jury has awarded $36.5 million in damages to an Oregon man who suffers from lung disease because of exposure to asbestos while working at a vermiculite mine in Libby. The jury on Friday awarded Ralph Hutt $6.5 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages. Hutt was
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump have suddenly resigned, throwing the future of the probe into question. A spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed Wednesday the resignations of Carey Dunne
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has held her weekly audience with Prime Minister Boris Johnson via telephone despite having contracted COVID-19. Elizabeth, 95. had cancelled even virtual meetings on Tuesday after suffering cold-like symptoms. Her age, COVID diagnosis and recent health scare have been a cause of worry, but being well
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Obsidian Middle School in southwest Redmond went into lockdown “out of an abundance of caution” for about an hour late Wednesday morning after staff received a report of a student on campus talking about having a gun, but police found no evidence of a gun on campus and no arrests were made, officials said.
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — La vacuna de refuerzo contra el covid-19 se comenzó a aplicar en la Ciudad de México a todos los jóvenes de 18 a 29 años que tienen un esquema de vacunación completo para antes del 29 de octubre de 2021. Los expertos en salud están recomendando que todas las personas
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is scrapping the name of a Trump-era initiative intended to crack down on economic espionage by Beijing but criticized as unfairly targeting Chinese professors at American colleges because of their ethnicity. The decision to abandon the China Initiative was announced by the department’s top
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Justice Department is ending its three-year-old China Initiative, a national security program intended to thwart China’s intelligence activities in the US, including those aimed at stealing emerging technology from research universities, in the wake of a string of dismissals of cases and complaints that it fueled suspicion and
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Frozen or burst pipes are on the rise as temperatures plunge to or below zero on the High Desert, and plumbers are busy with customers seeking help.
Continue ReadingBy GRANT SCHULTE Assoicated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed a conservative banker to replace former state Sen. Mike Groene, who resigned after admitting that he took photos of a legislative staffer without her knowledge. Newly appointed state Sen. Mike Jacobson will serve the rest of Groene’s term and seek
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The 2022 Boston Marathon will be the final one with Thomas S. Grilk as the Boston Athletic Association’s president and chief executive officer. The B.A.A., which manages the world’s oldest annual marathon, says the 74-year-old Grilk will be stepping down from his posts on April 30 and making a planned transition into
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The likelihood of hot, dry and windy autumn weather that can set the stage for severe fires in California and western Oregon has increased 40% since the mid-1800s due to human-caused climate change, new computer models show.
Continue ReadingYORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in southeastern Nebraska say a man trying to smoke drugs in a bus bathroom accidentally set himself and the bus on fire. The York News-Times reports that the incident happened early Saturday aboard a Burlington Trailways bus on Interstate 80 in York County. Sheriff’s officials say deputies and firefighters were
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday offered rare praise for President Joe Biden over sanctions targeting the company behind a controversial pipeline that has become a flashpoint in the intensifying Ukraine-Russia crisis. Biden said Wednesday that he was moving ahead with sanctions on the company in charge of building
Continue ReadingJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former state attorney in north Florida has pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery and extortion scheme. Court records show 53-year-old Jeffrey Siegmeister pleaded guilty Tuesday in Jacksonville federal court to conspiracy to use a facility of commerce for bribery and extortion and three other charges. Siegmeister was the elected
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