By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massage therapist who says Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her after she worked on him in 2010 insisted from the witness stand at his Los Angeles trial that she has not changed her account of the incident. Weinstein attorney Mark Werksman said that from her
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN Jimmy Kimmel claims he was ready to walk out on his longtime late-night hosting gig if his bosses at ABC asked him to stop making jokes about then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump. The comedian, who has been hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on the network since 2003, said on the most recent episode
Continue ReadingCNN By Nectar Gan, CNN China has reiterated its unswerving commitment to its longstanding zero-Covid policy, despite mounting public frustration the stringent measures are costing the very lives they’re intended to protect. Unfounded rumors of an exit from the costly strategy had sent Chinese stocks soaring last week, but at a news conference Saturday, Chinese
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter on Friday laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company, in a severe round of cost cutting that could potentially upend how one of the world’s most influential platforms operates one week after it was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk. Numerous Twitter employees began posting
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter has seen a “massive drop in revenue,” as a growing number of advertisers pause spending on the platform in the wake of his $44 billion acquisition. “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The first new type of antibiotic developed in more than 20 years to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) appears to be so effective that the pharmaceutical company stopped testing and will soon submit its data to the US Food and Drug Administration for approval. Drug company GSK said Thursday the new
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber put a sudden end to that record-tying hitless streak by Houston pitchers. Schwarber homered on Justin Verlander’s second pitch in Game 5 of the World Series, a night after four Astros pitchers combined on a no-hitter against Philadelphia. The Astros had held the Phillies hitless for 11 innings
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Happy Thursday, Central Oregon! The chance of showers will increase and begin as snow, with lows in the 20s and 30s Thursday night. Breezes will stay gentle overnight. With a shift in the airflow pattern, we will see temperatures warm into the mid-50s Friday. This next system is packed with moisture, so rain is likely
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian prosecutors have opened an investigation into three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet after he was filmed wishing for the death of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Da Silva narrowly won Sunday’s presidential election against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, whom the 70-year-old Piquet staunchly supports.
Continue ReadingBy CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro met briefly on Thursday with the envoy coordinating the transfer of power to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, four days after Bolsonaro’s tight election loss that sparked protests by his supporters amid his refusal to publicly concede. The meeting between Brazil’s far-right outgoing
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The 2022 growing season has proven to be better than Seed to Table Executive Director Audrey Tehan hoped for.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (Advocate Channel) — An appeals court ruled on Wednesday that requiring the Miss USA pageant to allow transgender women to compete would violate its first amendment right to communicate “the ideal vision of American womanhood.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Coco Gauff has been eliminated from semifinal contention at the WTA Finals after losing in straight sets against Daria Kasatkina in round-robin play. The 18-year-old Gauff is the youngest player to appear in both singles and doubles at the season-ending tournament since Anna Kournikova in 1999. Top-ranked Iga Swiatek earned
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets suspended Kyrie Irving for at least five games without pay Thursday, dismayed by his repeated failure to “unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs.” Hours after Irving refused to issue the apology that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sought for posting a link
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next week’s elections came from untrustworthy sources. But the percentage of videos from untrustworthy sources was much higher on Rumble, a video platform that’s popular with some conservatives and far-right groups.
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about “what it means to be a
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints coach Dennis Allen says the club has decided to place receiver Michael Thomas on injured reserve because of a dislocated toe that has not responded well to rehab. Allen says he doesn’t anticipate that Thomas will be able to return this year. The decision
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Allison Morrow, CNN Business A little over a decade ago, the dominant narrative about the housing market was that Millennials simply weren’t buying. They were either too cheap, lazy, or itinerant to commit to something as weighty as a mortgage. Cut to 2020 and that narrative got flipped on its head.
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business A little over a decade ago, the dominant narrative about the housing market was that Millennials simply weren’t buying. They were either too cheap, lazy, or itinerant to commit to something as weighty as a mortgage. Cut to 2020 and that narrative got flipped on its head. It wasn’t that
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A former housekeeper for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window to get to a bathroom anytime the Bezos family was home. In a lawsuit filed in King County Superior
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