LONDON (AP) — England captain Leah Williamson sustained an apparent knee injury in Arsenal’s game against Manchester United three months before the start of the Women’s World Cup. Williamson was helped off the field after falling and immediately signaling to the bench early in the first half of the Women’s Super League match. United won
Continue ReadingBy SHANE LANTZ Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Eric Lauer allowed just four hits over 7 2/3 innings, and Brice Turang hit a go-ahead single and scored in a five-run seventh as the Milwaukee Brewers completed a three-game sweep with a 5-3 victory Wednesday over the Seattle Mariners. Julio Rodríguez clubbed a two-run homer against
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Toronto’s Michael Bunting has been suspended three games for a head shot on Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak in the teams’ first-round series opener. Bunting will now miss Games 2, 3 and 4. The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced the suspension after a phone hearing with Bunting. He was given a
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — En su primera reunión conjunta en la Casa Blanca, el presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, llevará una amplia agenda que discutirá con su homólogo estadounidense Joe Biden, en temas que van desde el cambio climático, la seguridad regional y las sanciones a Venezuela. La agenda, que puede ser descrita
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press OAKLAND, Cailif. (AP) — Dansby Swanson scored the tiebreaking run standing up on an infield grounder to spark a four-run sixth inning and the Chicago Cubs reached Oakland’s bullpen for 10 runs in a 12-2 victory over the Athletics that completed a three-game sweep. The A’s have lost seven straight
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, CNN Chief White House correspondent White House officials have spent weeks engaged in skirmishes with House Republicans over the looming debt ceiling battle. Those skirmishes have now expanded into an all-out war. President Joe Biden’s economic speech in Maryland on Wednesday, which leveled a series of policy and political attacks at House
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s National Assembly has ratified President Miguel Díaz-Canel for a new five-year term, in a decision to maintain continuity as the island faces a deep economic crisis. More than 400 representatives to the assembly who were ratified by voters in March took office early Wednesday and then
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The back injury to Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Miami Heat affected the betting markets. The Bucks were still favored to win Wednesday night’s Game 2, but the lines had dropped. They still are favored to
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Boris Epshteyn, an attorney and adviser to Donald Trump, is scheduled to be interviewed on Thursday by federal prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Epshteyn worked as a special assistant to then-President Trump at the White House, advised Trump
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Wednesday is the first night of this year’s High Cascades Futurity and Benefit race.
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A La Pine man arrested at his Sunriver business last month after a teen seeking a job told her mother he’d been sending her sexually explicit messages pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of luring a minor, admitting he did so with an undercover police officer who continued the exchanges.
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Investigators say two teenagers and a 20—year-old man have been arrested and charged with reckless murder after a shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party in Alabama. District Attorney Mike Segrest said Wednesday the two teens would be
Continue ReadingGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has denied a motion to move the trial of a woman accused of killing and dismembering a man in Green Bay. Twenty-five-year-old Taylor Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of 25-year-old Shad Thyrion in February 2022.
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota state senators are sending to Republican Gov. Doug Burgum a veto-proof bill that would ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. It would be one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Supporters say the bill would further
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The situation on the ground in Sudan on Wednesday remained too volatile to get diplomatic staff from the US Embassy in Khartoum out of the country, a top State Department official told congressional staffers. According to multiple staffers in the room, Assistant Secretary of State for African
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The situation on the ground in Sudan on Wednesday remained too volatile to get diplomatic staff from the US Embassy in Khartoum out of the country, a top State Department official told congressional staffers. According to multiple staffers in the room, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
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Good Wednesday evening, Central Oregon! After waking up to some snow this morning, we’ve mostly stayed dry, but also chilly and windy. The occasional stormy weather may linger with us through the night and into tomorrow, but we will start to warm up slightly tomorrow. Highs should reach the low 50s tomorrow, as the winds
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender girls in North Carolina would be prohibited from joining female sports teams in middle school, high school and college under legislation passed by the Republican-controlled House. The chamber approved the bill 73-39 Wednesday in one of its first actions since attaining a supermajority
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan warned lawmakers that American aid to the country could be diverted to the Taliban as he accused the Biden administration of stonewalling his efforts to investigate. The stunning disclosure by John Sopko comes as House Republicans are using the power
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that House Republicans can question a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Donald Trump. Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil decided Wednesday that there is no legal basis to block the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena.
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