By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN John Mayer has announced a first-ever solo acoustic tour. The 19-date tour will stop at arenas across North America and is set to kick off on March 11 in New Jersey, according to a press release. The tour ends in Los Angeles on April 14. Tickets go on sale on February
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Democratic-led Virginia Senate panel has defeated several bills that would have restricted abortion access in the state. Among them was a measure that was a priority for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The Senate Committee on Education and Health voted the measures down without debate Thursday
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.” The Multnomah County jury’s award this week to Portland resident Rose Wakefield, 63, included punitive damages of $550,000. Wakefield’s lawyer, Gregory
Continue ReadingBy KCTV Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — On Wednesday morning, Leawood police said a driver had been taken to the hospital after a crash involving a semi. Officers stated the semi hit a silver, compact Kia at the intersection of an on-ramp from State Line Road to
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Tres personas recibieron atención médica durante el rodaje de un programa de reality de “Squid Game”, según confirmó Netflix, pero la compañía negó que fueran “lesiones graves”. El año pasado, Netflix anunció que iba a lanzar “Squid Game: The Challenge”, una serie de reality basada en el exitoso drama surcoreano en
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A circuit court must get more information from the South Carolina Department of Corrections regarding the agency’s attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs. The Thursday order from the South Carolina Supreme Court means it could be four more months until justices decide whether a
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The United States is sanctioning Paraguay’s former President Horacio Cartes Jara and current Vice President Hugo Velázquez Moreno. The U.S. Treasury Department is blocking them from using the U.S. financial system. It accuses them of widespread corruption schemes and ties to members of Hezbollah, which the
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are awaiting execution. They say the policy causes severe physical and psychological harm and restricts their
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the high court’s historically slow start to releasing opinions. Every year the justices begin hearing cases in October and generally finish their work by the end of June before going on a summer break. This
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general is appointing an independent counsel to conduct a comprehensive review of death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction and death sentence. Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the appointment Thursday of former District Attorney Rex Duncan. The 59-year-old Glossip has long maintained his
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The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission issued a recall Thursday for two retail vaping products produced by an OLCC-licensed processor that tested positive for pesticides.
Continue ReadingPAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Toymaker Hasbro is cutting about 1,000 jobs as part of moves announced last year to save up to $300 million annually by 2025. The nearly century-old Rhode Island-based company behind Monopoly, Play-Doh and My Little Pony toys says the layoffs amount to 15% of its global full-time workforce. Hasbro also said
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN PASTRANA Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE (WFOR) — Rev. Peytyn Tobin and volunteers at New Horizon United Methodist Church in Southwest Ranches learned in 2009 that food insecurity was affecting families all over Broward County. So, they launched a grassroots program, Pack-A-Sack, to get meals to kids who needed
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — Shakira continúa conquistando espacios. La cantante colombiana tendrá su propia exhibición dentro del Museo de los Grammy en Los Ángeles. La exposición, titulada: “Shakira, Shakira: The GRAMMY Museum Experience”, abrirá el 4 de marzo y contará con algunas piezas destacadas durante la carrera de más de tres décadas de la
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect against a still rapidly mutating virus. The Food and Drug Administration asked its scientific advisers Thursday to help lay
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN Justice Brett Kavanaugh said this week that he is “optimistic” about the court, his colleagues, and the country in the first-known public comments any justice has made off the bench since the release of an investigative report into the leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v.
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Economic Development for Central Oregon is committed to helping develop the regional workforce by fostering connections between businesses and local students. Part of that commitment includes managing Youth CareerConnect, a regional initiative that provides career services and internship opportunities for high school, college and alternative school students.
Continue ReadingBy RAEGAN SCHARFETTER Click here for updates on this story FRISCO, Texas (KTVT) — Twenty-three people have been arrested following a multi-agency operation that focused on “suppressing the demand for prostitution,” the Frisco Police Department announced Thursday. On Jan. 12 and Jan. 13, Frisco police joined other local agencies in Operation Demand Suppression. Officials said
Continue ReadingBy ELÉONORE HUGHES and EDMAR BARROS Associated Press BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency. While many in Brazil were left wondering how the calamity could materialize seemingly overnight, it
Continue ReadingCNN, WRTV, ABC NEWS, FOX BUSINESS, REALTOR.COM, GETTY IMAGES, FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS, WSOC, RIGHT SIDE BROADCASTING NETWORK, TRUTH SOCIAL, CBS, WPVI By Evan Perez, Kevin Liptak and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The discovery of classified documents at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home immediately raised questions at the Justice Department about whether yet another special counsel
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