BRUGGE, Belgium (AP) — Club Brugge was punished for its defensive mistakes and slumped to its first Champions League loss this season in a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Porto. The Portugal champions avenged their 4-0 home loss when the teams first met in Group B last month and advanced to the round of
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Two new local theater companies — The Deschutes Theatre Company and Ellipse Theatre Community — are working to create a unique footprint for themselves in the Central Oregon community.
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk plans to visit Twitter’s San Francisco office this week ahead of the expected close of his deal to buy the company, Twitter Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Berland told staff in an email Wednesday. “As you’ll soon see or hear, Elon is in the SF office
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business Rank and file members of another railroad union have rejected a tentative labor deal, a move that further raises the odds that America’s freight railroad workers will go on strike sometime next month. The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen voted against September’s tentative agreement, according to results announced
Continue ReadingSTORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn freshman forward Ice Brady will miss the entire season because of a dislocated right kneecap. Brady was a top recruit for the sixth-ranked Huskies. Her injury is another setback for a team that’s already missing Paige Bueckers, the former national player of the year who will miss the season while
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — General Motors said Wednesday that it has secured all of the renewable energy it needs to power its U.S. facilities by 2025, well ahead of its earlier projections. The Detroit automaker, which initially targeted the year 2050 to achieve its all-renewables goal, said it secured sourcing agreements from 16 renewable energy plants
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has held Oval Office talks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, with the Israeli leader warning of a mounting Iranian “challenge.” Iran is continuing its brutal crackdown against young Iranians who have taken to the streets and U.S. efforts to revive the
Continue ReadingBy PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference wants tremendous competition. It also wants teams from both schools to have a safe experience after playing in perhaps the most frenzied arenas in college football. Wild celebrations after No. 3 Tennessee’s landmark home win over No. 6 Alabama and No. 18
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s cultural and satellite agencies have joined forces to more systematically track the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the country’s architecture, art, historic buildings and other cultural heritage, and have compiled an initial list of more than 200 sites that have been damaged or
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press A delivery driver charged with killing a Google employee from New York who went missing while out for a run near her mother’s Massachusetts home six years ago has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Prosecutors say Angelo Colon-Ortiz’s plea Wednesday in the Aug. 7, 2016, killing of 27-year-old Vanessa Marcotte
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s new Premier Giorgia Meloni has defended her policy aims ahead of a second and final confidence vote in Parliament before the new government led by her far-right party can get down to business. During a wide-ranging reply to parliamentary questions that lasted about an hour, Meloni on Wednesday rejected criticism by
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Thousands have rallied in Prague to honor two Slovak gay men shot dead this month outside a bar in Slovakia, and demanded better protection of LGBTQ people and their families. The gathering in Prague’s central Wenceslas Square Wednesday was held the same day the funerals of Matúš Horváth and Juraj Vankulič were
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors makes a big deal out of the Ultium battery technology underpinning its new and upcoming electric vehicles like the Cadillac Lyriq, GMC Hummer EV and the Chevrolet Silverado EV pickup. But the GM EV that’s a hit with customers right now is, ironically, the Bolt, a model that
Continue ReadingCNN By Kyung Lah, Kate Sullivan and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former President Donald Trump took Blake Masters to task after the Arizona Republican Senate nominee said in a debate this month that he hadn’t seen evidence of election fraud in Arizona. During a phone call between Trump and Masters captured in a Fox documentary at
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN Monkeypox can have “devastating outcomes” on severely immunocompromised patients such as those with untreated HIV, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research published Wednesday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report examined clinical case data for 57 patients hospitalized with monkeypox complications and found that
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to adopt a new rule that would require public companies to take back executive compensation when their financial statements contain errors. These “clawback” requirements are intended to hold corporate executives financially accountable for any reporting errors, whether they are the result of fraud
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — UCLA forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. and guard Tyger Campbell spoke during the offseason about unfinished business with the Bruins and how they both wanted to come back for their senior seasons. “He had opportunities, I had opportunities,” Jaquez said Wednesday at Pac-12 media day. “But
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Lazy Z Ranch in Sisters could soon be serving people its homemade wine.
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Arizona chapter of the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit in federal court late Tuesday targeting groups and individuals that they say are conspiring to intimidate voters in Arizona through a coordinated effort known as “Operation Drop Box.” The lawsuit was filed on behalf
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A waiting and vetting period would be baked into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the November statewide ballot passes. If voters approve the measure Nov. 8, buying a gun would first involve the potential purchaser obtaining a permit, which requires a number of
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