By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN An Oath Keeper who served as private security for right-wing figures around January 6 pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and is cooperating with the Justice Department, becoming the first person charged with seditious conspiracy related to the attack to strike a plea deal. Joshua James, who
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Most Russian players in the National Hockey League have remained silent about their country’s invasion of Ukraine. That is intentional based on the potential repercussions for them and their families back home. Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is among the very few hockey players from
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La Organización Mundial de la Salud emitió una recomendación para el medicamento antiviral molnupiravir para personas con infecciones no graves por covid-19 que tienen un alto riesgo de hospitalización. Según una guía actualizada de la OMS sobre medicamentos para el covid-19 publicada este miércoles en el BMJ, la organización define el
Continue ReadingBy DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Senate Republicans have approved a bill that prohibits transgender females from participating in girls high school sports and women’s college athletics, sending a divisive bill likely to draw legal challenges to the governor. Gov. Kim Reynolds last year lobbied lawmakers to pass a similar
Continue ReadingBy DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Senate Republicans have approved a bill that prohibits transgender females from participating in girls high school sports and women’s college athletics, sending a divisive bill likely to draw legal challenges to the governor. Gov. Kim Reynolds last year lobbied lawmakers to pass a similar
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published March 2, 2022, about election year politics, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a national youth organization focused on climate change. It is the Sunrise Movement, not the Sunrise Foundation.
Continue Readingby Brenda Goodman An Omicron-like variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 — one that appears to be highly divergent from circulating strains and sticks out on a long branch of the virus’ family tree — has been discovered in a population of white-tailed deer in Ontario, Canada, according to a new study. The same
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Biden administration continues to be on alert for potential Russian criminal or state-backed cyberattacks against critical infrastructure targets in the US — a posture that Washington assumed months ago but that has grown more acute since Russia invaded Ukraine. The US is “very much on guard” for potential Russian cyberattacks
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans say Zion Williamson’s recovery from a right foot injury has improved to the point where he can gradually resume basketball activities. But the club says there remains no timetable for when he might play in a game. The announcement came after
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City Club of Central Oregon brings its annual “Regional City Managers Forum” on Thursday, March 17 to hear from city managers across the tri counties region on what has been a challenge, and what solutions they are formulating.
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN President Joe Biden tried to assuage Americans’ concerns about high inflation in his State of the Union address Tuesday, while seeking to boost low ratings for how he’s handled the economy. Since there’s not too much a president can do unilaterally to combat inflation, Biden laid out several proposals to help
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN In a legal win for the National Rifle Association, a New York State Supreme Court justice has blocked the state attorney general’s attempt to dissolve the organization but has allowed her suit against it to move forward. New York Supreme Court Justice Joel M. Cohen said the attorney general’s suit paints
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Kim Kardashian está legalmente soltera. Un juez de Los Ángeles accedió el miércoles a la solicitud de la estrella de reality shows y empresaria de cambiar su estado civil, según una fuente cercana a Kardashian. La noticia fue reportada por primera vez por TMZ. Esto ocurre después de haber presentado la
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La retórica de Vladimir Putin tras la invasión a Ucrania se ha intensificado para incluir referencias directas al vasto arsenal nuclear de Rusia: puso al país en su estado de alerta más alto y forzó una evaluación del equilibrio que evita que las naciones con armas nucleares se destruyan a
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Google is giving its employees one more month of being fully remote before requiring them back in the office at least three days a week. The tech giant will “end the voluntary WFH period” on April 4 that it gave its employees at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN It’s never ideal to arrive way too late to the party, and “Joe vs Carole” feels guilty of that, adapting the story of Netflix’s “Tiger King,” a.k.a. Joe Exotic, into a limited series that dutifully replicates those events without much bite. The attention might still be welcome for streaming service
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say an officer in plainclothes fatally shot a fleeing 12-year-old boy in the back, moments after a bullet was fired into an unmarked car. Investigators have identified the boy as Thomas Siderio Jr. Police say officers took him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead a few
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The father who fatally shot his three daughters and a man at a California church this week repeatedly threatened to kill his estranged girlfriend. He scared their girls so much they cried and one bit off her fingernails. He had a restraining order
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Chelsea is facing a crisis off the field and was in a spot of bother on it when the team fell behind not just once but twice to a lower-league opponent in the FA Cup. The most expensive player of the Roman Abramovich era bailed Chelsea out. Romelu Lukaku
Continue ReadingARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia substitute teacher has been suspended after expressing approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine and urging students to read Russian propaganda outlets. The Washington Post reports that Arlington Public Schools suspended John Stanton, who made the comments during a middle school Spanish class Friday. Stanton says
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