The influenza vaccination rate among Oregon health care workers dropped 26% between the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 influenza seasons, new data show, worrying state officials trying to prevent the virus’s spread to people most at risk of severe illness and death.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Residents of a small Ohio town whose lives have been upended since a train hauling toxic chemicals derailed there earlier this month pressed top officials on the long-term health concerns and expressed their mounting distrust Wednesday night during a CNN town hall. Following the February 3 crash, angry and frustrated residents
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has shut down a key border crossing with Afghanistan, just hours after it was reopened. Thursday’s developments are the latest twist in the closure of the Torkham junction and key trade route between the countries that has added to increasing tensions along
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press For Russia, it’s been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes. Now, on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing for
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press For Russia, it’s been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes. Now, on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing for
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi’s state gas company expects to raise up to $2 billion by selling 4% of its shares in an initial public offering. The company said Thursday that the price range for the previously announced sale of over 3 billion shares has been set at 2.25 to 2.34 Emirati
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, normally spreads in poultry and wasn’t deemed a threat to people until a 1997 outbreak
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Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un hombre de Texas fue condenado a más de tres años de prisión este miércoles por agredir a agentes de policía durante los disturbios en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos y amenazar a la representante Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez en Twitter poco después del ataque. Garret Miller, de 36 años, se declaró culpable
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Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Wednesday they are urging Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash to adopt more transparency on “junk fees,” calling it a misleading and harmful price-gouging practice directed at consumers and small businesses.
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Abeer Salman, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Richard Roth and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Israel launched airstrikes targeting alleged weapons manufacturing and storage sites in Gaza on Thursday, following a rocket attack from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. In a statement, the IDF said “fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site”
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s president has urged the country’s more than 2 million refugees to return home in his first meeting with displaced people since civil war erupted almost a decade ago. The appeal comes as the country prepares to hold its first elections since gaining independence
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than a year, killing dozens of civilians and security officers in the deserts of central Syria, even as people of northern Syria have been digging out of the wreckage from the region’s devastating earthquake. The
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By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday, shutting down much of Oregon’s largest city with almost a foot of snow and paralyzing travel from parts of the Pacific Coast all the way to the northern Plains. The nearly
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday, shutting down much of Oregon’s largest city with almost a foot of snow and paralyzing travel from parts of the Pacific Coast all the way to the northern Plains. The nearly
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Palestinian militants in Gaza launched rockets at southern Israel and Israeli aircraft struck targets in the coastal enclave early Thursday after a gunbattle triggered by an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank killed 10 Palestinians. The bloodshed extends one of the deadliest periods in
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge has ruled there is enough evidence for a trial against the person accused of killing five people and wounding over a dozen others at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year. The Thursday ruling sends Anderson Lee Aldrich to trial on dozens
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NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are staying north of the Bering Strait more frequently, a shift that could affect the long-term health of the bowhead population and impact the Indigenous communities that rely on the whales, a new study by Oregon State University researchers shows. Bowhead whales
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Max Rice scored 22 of his 30 points in the second half and grabbed seven rebounds and Boise State beat New Mexico 82-77 on Wednesday. Tyson Degenhart scored 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds and Chibuzo Agbo scored 12 shooting 6 of 7 from the foul line
Continue ReadingFor low- to moderate-income Oregon families, filing a tax return is the key step toward claiming a series of refundable tax credits that could mean thousands of dollars in their pockets, the Oregon Department of Revenue reminded Wednesday.
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