MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Lynx center Sylvia Fowles has a cartilage injury in her right knee and will be out indefinitely. The seven-time All-Star is in her final WNBA season. Fowles who was hurt in the previous game against New York. Fowles is averaging 16.5 points, 10.3 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.3 blocks per game.
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have met for the very first time. Biden and Bolsonaro came together Thursday while both are attending a summit of leaders from Western Hemisphere nations that Biden is hosting in Los Angeles. The two had
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A week from Saturday, if all goes as planned, Bend Park and Rec’s Whitewater Park will open back up for surfers for the first time since a teen’s tragic death this spring. But not without numerous changes, including more signs, webcam modifications, a strong recommendation for helmets and personal flotation devices, and a ban on leashes.
Continue ReadingCNN By Allie Torgan, CNN It’s not every day you meet a rabbi from Texas with a thing for underwear. But Rabbi Amy Weiss is bringing something so simple, yet essential, to those in dire need: Undies. For everyone. It’s her mission and her organization’s moniker. And by the end of this year, Weiss said
Continue ReadingBy Allie Torgan, CNN It’s not every day you meet a rabbi from Texas with a thing for underwear. But Rabbi Amy Weiss is bringing something so simple, yet essential, to those in dire need: Undies. For everyone. It’s her mission and her organization’s moniker. And by the end of this year, Weiss said Undies
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN The California man arrested near US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh‘s home and charged with attempting or threatening to kidnap or murder a US judge said in calls he made to 911 before the arrest that he was thinking of killing himself and needed psychiatric help, according to audio recordings released
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings will rely heavily on cornerback Patrick Peterson again this season. He re-signed with the team for his 12th year in the NFL. The Vikings are running a new scheme under defensive coordinator Ed Donatell. The role of safeties in disguising coverages
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has won an unexpectedly tight race to become the Republican nominee in the race for a new U.S. House seat representing western Montana. His victory Thursday comes after one Montana county spent days hand-counting ballots because of a ballot printing error. Zinke was endorsed by former
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN The Perseverance rover made friends with a pet rock about four months ago, and the two have been inseparable ever since. A rock found its way into the rover’s left front wheel in early February while roaming around the red planet, according to Perseverance’s left hazard avoidance camera. In four months,
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A person’s race and ethnicity must be taken into account when deciding whether they were free to leave an encounter with police, the Washington Supreme Court said Thursday in its latest decision seeking to counteract bias in the justice system. The unanimous ruling concerned Palla Sum, a
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Se encontraron rastros de sangre en un bote perteneciente a un sospechoso de la desaparición del periodista británico Dom Phillips y el experto en asuntos indígenas Bruno Pereira, informó este jueves la Policía Federal de Brasil. La policía ha solicitado que el sospechoso, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, permanezca bajo arresto.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Roma (CNN) — Dos turistas estadounidenses fueron multados y se les prohibió brevemente el acceso al centro histórico de Roma después de dañar la Plaza de España con scooters. El incidente, que fue captado por las cámaras de seguridad, se produce menos de un mes después de que un hombre saudí fuera detenido
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A decades-long search by a Florida woman and her extended family linked to an unsolved murder case has resulted in the woman finding her missing granddaughter, now grown with no previous knowledge of her tragic history. But the mystery behind who brutally killed the infant girl’s parents more than 40 years
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yonathan Daza looped a tiebreaking single into right field, capping a three-run fourth inning fueled by three errors, and the Colorado Rockies rallied past San Francisco 4-2 to take two of three from the Giants. San Francisco made a season-high four errors, including a pair in
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears has married her longtime partner Sam Asghari at a Southern California ceremony that came months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship. Asghari’s representative Brandon Cohen confirmed the couple’s nuptials. He said: “I am very ecstatic this day
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Como productora ejecutiva del nuevo programa de Hulu “The Kardashians”, una de sus estrellas, Kourtney Kardashian, puede ver los primeros cortes de los episodios antes de que estén disponibles para el público. Pero ella reveló en un episodio publicado esta semana que no estaba contenta con la forma en que el
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments, published Thursday, that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law
Continue ReadingBy EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press VILLA COMALTITLÁN, Mexico (AP) — A group that once numbered as many as 5,000 migrants has split on whether to keeping walking through Mexico toward the U.S. border. A group of mainly younger male migrants set out walking from the southern town of Huixtla. But throngs of families with
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials have confirmed the first cases in the Southwest of a bird flu that has led to the deaths of 37 million birds on commercial farms in the central and eastern U.S. Arizona Game and Fish officials announced this week that the disease was present in
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials have confirmed the first cases in the Southwest of a bird flu that has led to the deaths of 37 million birds on commercial farms in the central and eastern U.S. Arizona Game and Fish officials announced this week that the disease was present in
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