CNN By Tricia Escobedo and Allie Torgan, CNN Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El Departamento de Cuidado y Control de Animales del condado de Los Ángeles concedió por primera vez una licencia para tener un unicornio. Madeline, una niña de 6 años, escribió una carta al departamento solicitando la aprobación oficial para poseer un unicornio, si podía encontrar uno. En una carta manuscrita publicada en
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Tom Brady relished the rare opportunity to come back to the Bay Area to play his boyhood favorite team in front of family and friends. Too bad he couldn’t give them much to cheer about. Brady threw two interceptions and struggled to move
Continue ReadingBy DICK SCANLON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Franz Wagner scored 23 points, Paolo Banchero added 20 points and 12 rebounds and the Orlando Magic beat the Toronto Raptors 111-99 for their third straight win. The Magic didn’t win three in a row at any point last season. Orlando’s last three-game winning streak was
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — For most of this season, the Seattle Seahawks have not faced a day where Geno Smith was unable to make up for whatever issues were on the other side of the ball. This time was the exception, and it might have been the final blow in
Continue ReadingPISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Dre Davis scored 10 points and Seton Hall beat in-state rival Rutgers 45-43 at the Garden State Hardwood Classic. Paul Mulcahy missed a fade-away jumper and Aundre Hyatt’s put-back attempt missed as well before Ndefo appeared to step on the baseline as grabbed the ball and threw it to Davis, who
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson left the Broncos’ 34-28 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs after suffering a concussion at the end of a 14-yard scramble early in the fourth quarter. Wilson had rallied the Broncos from a 27-0 deficit with a trio of touchdown drives. His
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE KRAFT Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Johnny Gaudreau scored 40 seconds into overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Los Angeles Kings 6-5 for their second straight win. Jack Roslovic had two goals and two assists, Patrik Laine had a goal and two assists, and Boone Jenner and rookie Kirill Marchenko
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN COONEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid had 53 points and 11 rebounds, leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 131-113 win over the Charlotte Hornets. With the home crowd serenading him with MVP! chants, Embiid posted his second 50-plus point performance of the season and the fourth 50-plus point game of his
Continue ReadingBy GEORGE HENRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — A.J. Griffin hit a 6-footer on an alley-oop pass at the overtime buzzer and the Atlanta Hawks snapped a three-game losing streak with a 123-122 victory over the Chicago Bulls. DeMar DeRozan sank three free throws with 0.5 seconds remaining in overtime to finish with 33
Continue ReadingBy GEORGE RICHARDS Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Andre Burakovsky scored the go-ahead goal midway through the second period and the Seattle Kraken beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 on Sunday night. Matty Beniers, Jordan Eberle, Daniel Sprong and Yanni Gourde also scored to help Seattle snap a three-game losing streak. Martin Jones finished with
Continue Reading
Happy Sunday evening, Central Oregon! How about all this snow we saw today! A full day of snowfall all throughout the region brought a white coat to the High Desert this Sunday. A winter storm warning was in effect all day Sunday, expiring at 10 p.m. Sunday night. The chances for snow go away as
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Si alguna vez has querido poseer un pedazo de la sede de Twitter, la compañía subastará docenas de artículos de recuerdo y suministros de su oficina en San Francisco. Twitter hará limpieza y quiere deshacerse de objetos como una gran estatua de un pájaro de Twitter y una maceta gigante con una
Continue ReadingSam Fossum and Jack Forrest, CNN President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on Sunday to discuss Russia’s invasion and recent US efforts to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses. Zelensky thanked Biden for an additional $275 million in security assistance, which the Pentagon announced Friday, as well as for the wider and “unprecedented” US
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Las palabras más soeces del mundo suelen referirse a algo vulgar o tabú. Pero hay algo más que tienen en común las palabrotas de todas las lenguas del mundo. A todas les faltan los sonidos consonánticos más melódicos que es más probable escuchar en una canción de cuna que en una colorida
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has acknowledged that its troops fatally shot a teenage Palestinian girl during an operation in the occupied West Bank. It says a preliminary investigation found that Jana Zakaran was hit overnight Monday by fire aimed at gunmen in the area. It was a rare admission of an error by
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai, Xiaofei Xu, Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau China will abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the “Mobile Itinerary card,” on Tuesday, officials say. “Mobile Itinerary card inquiry channels such as text messages, web pages, WeChat extensions, Alipay extensions and app will go offline at the same time,” according to a statement
Continue ReadingThis much snowfall can lead to school and event cancellations and delays, and Sunday’s storm was no exception, as Central Oregon Community College and the Redmond, Culver and Jefferson County school districts canceled Monday classes and programs. Crook County also changed plans for a delay and closed instead.
Continue ReadingCOLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Dexter Dennis had 16 points, Tyrece Radford scored 12 — all in the second half — and Texas A&M pulled away for a 72-54 victory over Oregon State on Sunday night. Dennis sank 5 of 9 shots with four 3-pointers to help the Aggies (6-3) up their non-conference home win
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El principal funcionario de asuntos de rehenes de Estados Unidos reflexionó este domingo sobre la realización del intercambio de prisioneros que condujo a la liberación de Brittney Griner, y dijo que la basquetbolista estrella agradeció de inmediato al equipo que la devolvió a Estados Unidos. “Cuando finalmente subió al avión estadounidense,
Continue Reading