By Sandee LaMotte, CNN It’s an unfounded message experts say is repeated again and again: Having an abortion may damage a woman’s mental health, perhaps for years. “There’s so much misinformation, so many myths about abortion. Abortion will lead to substance abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts; abortion is bad for your health; every woman is going
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven U.S. Defense Department satellites has been launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast. The modified jumbo jet took off Friday night from Mojave Air and Space Port in the Mojave Desert and released the rocket over the Pacific Ocean northwest
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven U.S. Defense Department satellites has been launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast. The modified jumbo jet took off Friday night from Mojave Air and Space Port in the Mojave Desert and released the rocket over the Pacific Ocean northwest
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has condemned Israel’s latest airstrike on Syria and criticized threats from Turkey about another planned incursion by Ankara in northern Syria. The minister spoke on Saturday, at the start of his visit to Syria. Iran has been one of the Syrian government’s strongest
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer Spain has the best player in the world in its squad and can finally call itself one of the title favorites entering a major women’s soccer tournament. Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas will lead Spain at this year’s European Championship in England where the Spaniards will try to break
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN A controversial California bill repealing loitering related to possible prostitution was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. A provision in state law previously allowed police to arrest those who “delay or linger without a lawful purpose” if it appeared they were trying to engage in sex work. Police can
Continue ReadingBy TAMER FAKAHANY and CARA ANNA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence.
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO and ED WHITE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation’s second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order briefly allowing the procedure to resume in some cases, the latest in legal scrambles taking place across the U.S. following the reversal of
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN At least 10 million bees were released onto a highway after a semi-truck crashed in Utah. The truck, driven by a commercial beekeeper traveling from California to North Dakota, tipped over on Interstate 80 at around 10:40 a.m. local time Monday, Cameron Roden, public information officer for the Utah Highway Patrol,
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BOTHELL, Wash. – This fire season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is urging caution with any Fourth of July celebrations that include fireworks, campfires, or grilling and is encouraging residents to be mindful of rising temperatures heading into the summer season. While fireworks and outdoor gatherings go hand-in-hand with the holiday and summer months, they
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Leury García broke up a scoreless game on an RBI single with two outs in the top of the ninth, and the Chicago White Sox beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0. Gavin Sheets started the rally when he reached on a one-out fielding error by
Continue ReadingBy DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Gonsolin continued his bid for his first All-Star Game appearance, pitching into the eighth inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 5-1. Max Muncy and Cody Bellinger hit home runs as Los Angeles won its third consecutive game and improved to
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, CNN A workgroup developing a second-grade social studies curriculum for the Texas State Board of Education last month suggested using the term “involuntary relocation” to describe people who were sold into slavery, the board’s chair said, amid national debates on the role of critical race theory in classrooms. The proposed phrase was
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Sean Murphy was largely responsible for James Kaprielian finally picking up his first victory of the season on the mound. Both in the game Murphy called behind the plate and what he did with the bat. Murphy delivered a pair of key two-out hits, including a
Continue ReadingBy Tricia Escobedo, CNN Patrick Oppmann has reported under one of the most secretive regimes on the planet for nearly a decade. CNN is the only American television network with a bureau in Communist Cuba. As Oppmann got ready to move from Seattle to Havana in 2012, he recalled his boss giving him this advice:
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A cool, wet spring delayed, but won’t head off the earliest shutoff of the Arnold Irrigation District’s summer irrigation deliveries since the district was formed 117 years ago. But there’s hope, in the form of an upcoming canal-piping project, that can be headed off in coming years.
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Breanna Stewart scored 18 of her 20 points in the first half, Tina Charles moved into fourth in WNBA history for career scoring and the Seattle Storm beat the Indiana Fever 73-57 on Friday night. Charles scored nine points to reach 6,902 for her career, passing Candice Dupree with 6,895. Tamika Catchings
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion, guns and religion — a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court’s conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes and Melanie Zanona, CNN Former President Donald Trump is anxiously mulling when, exactly, he should announce a presidential run for 2024 — a decision that has become even more pressing as he tries to reclaim control of his image following a spate of damaging revelations by the House select committee
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Colin formed along the South Carolina coast on Saturday morning, bringing rain and winds, though the storm later weakened and conditions are expected to improve by Monday’s July Fourth celebrations. The National Hurricane Center in Miami warned of the possibility of localized flash flooding along the Carolinas coast through Sunday
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