SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The United States has sanctioned two prominent Bosnian officials. The Treasury Department on Monday accused them of threatening the peace, stability and prosperity in their country which has never fully recovered from its brutal inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. The Bosnian war pitted the country’s three main ethnic factions against each
Continue ReadingSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The United States has sanctioned two prominent Bosnian officials. The Treasury Department on Monday accused them of threatening the peace, stability and prosperity in their country which has never fully recovered from its brutal inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. The Bosnian war pitted the country’s three main ethnic factions against each
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to withdraw from his death penalty trial after the judge ordered them to move forward with jury selection even though one member of their five-member team has COVID-19. Judge Elizabeth Scherer rejected the withdrawal motion
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies swept the Los Angeles Angels and enter a pivotal stretch to revive their season. The Phillies open a three-game series Tuesday at NL Central-leading Milwaukee. The series could show if the Phillies were one-weekend wonders in the wake of the enthusiasm of a
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Budget airline Ryanair says it’s forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with phony passports. Dublin-based Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline, mainly operates routes around Europe and doesn’t
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Matt Egan The gas price spike keeps getting worse. The national average jumped to $4.87 a gallon on Monday, according to AAA. That’s up 25 cents in the past week and 59 cents in the past month. There are now 10 states where the average price of gasoline is $5 a gallon
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Elon Musk hizo este lunes su amenaza más directa hasta el momento de cancelar la compra de Twitter, al acusar abiertamente a la compañía de violar el acuerdo de fusión por no proporcionar los datos que él solicitó sobre spam y cuentas falsas. Cronología del accidentado camino de Elon Musk hacia la
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New Yorkers under age 21 will be prohibited from buying semiautomatic rifles under a new law signed Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, making the state one of the first to enact a major gun control initiative following a wave of deadly mass shootings. Hochul,
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Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El gran ciclista estadounidense Greg Lemond reveló que le diagnosticaron leucemia mielógena crónica. LeMond, ganador del Tour de Francia en tres ocasiones, anunció la noticia a través de un comunicado en su página web. LeMond, de 60 años, dijo en su declaración que se había sentido mal durante algún tiempo antes
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Deschutes County is accepting applications from residents for its 2022 County College program. County College gives members of the community the opportunity to learn more about County services and programs. Participants will get a unique look at how Deschutes County functions by hearing from staff in various departments, participating in group
Continue ReadingBy Adam Pourahmadi and Jeremy Herb, CNN Iran is only a few weeks away from having a “significant quantity of enriched uranium,” the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General Rafael Grossi said on Monday. “Having a significant quantity does not mean having a bomb,” Grossi told a press conference following the start of the quarterly
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Deschutes County is accepting applications from interested residents with banking industry experience to serve on the Facility Project Review Committee. The committee provides recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners on pending and upcoming County building and facility projects, as requested by the Board. The seven member committee includes members with
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — En Carolina del Sur y Texas, a las víctimas les dispararon en una fiesta de graduación de su escuela secundaria. En Kentucky, los asistentes a un funeral fueron atacados afuera de una iglesia. Múltiples atacantes acribillaron a balazos a una multitud en Filadelfia. En Chattanooga, Tennessee, los disparos ocurrieron en una discoteca.
Continue ReadingEDMONDS, Wash. (AP) — A student at Edmonds-Woodway High School in Washington state was arrested after authorities said he made a threat against the school. A 16-year-old male was booked into juvenile jail early Monday for felony harassment, according to the Edmonds Police Department. KOMO reports that the school’s principal said in an email to
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 and 428, or Martian days that correspond with May 3 and May 4. The little chopper’s
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s election agency says the ruling party of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen easily topped the field as expected in nationwide local polls, Official final returns from Sunday’s polls are due to be released on June 26. But a statement released by the National Election Committee says Hun Sen’s Cambodian
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought to it by a Missouri Republican Senate candidate and his wife, who were seeking review of the professional disciplinary action they faced, as lawyers, for pointing guns at racial justice protestors demonstrating outside their St. Louis home. There were
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Milan’s famed La Scala opera house has announced the celebration of next season’s gala premiere with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov.” It’s a move that aims to separate politics from culture. La Scala’s 2022-23 calendar was set long before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also marks the
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state’s three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen death row inmates who were plaintiffs in the case. Judge Stephen Friot’s ruling followed
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