Oregon’s legislative leaders met for a second day Thursday in an effort to end the more than week-old boycott by several senators that has stopped action on legislation in its tracks. And they agreed on one thing — calling off attempts to hold floor sessions for the next three days.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Kentucky Derby winner Mage remains on track to run in the Preakness next week to continue a pursuit of horse racing’s first Triple Crown. Co-owner Ramiro Restrepo says a final decision is expected Friday after the horse has one more workout. Restrepo downplayed concern about the two-week turnaround that’s
Continue ReadingBy Eoin McSweeney, CNN The Israel Defense Forces has apologized for the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a year to the day after she was killed by a bullet to the back of the head while covering an Israeli military operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. It is the first
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include protections against discrimination based on a person’s perceived caste. The measure, the first such effort by a US state legislature, would
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic is right where he wants to be after a slow start to his clay-court season. He’s back at the Italian Open. It’s the clay event where he’s had his most success. The top-ranked Serb is a six-time champion in Rome and six-time runner-up. He
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is ending his lawsuit against sportscaster Pat McAfee after McAfee publicly apologized for his previous on-air statements that Favre had been “stealing from poor people in Mississippi” in a welfare misspending case. Favre and McAfee both announced the settlement Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the microphones picked up some unexpected sounds. The stratosphere is the second layer of Earth’s atmosphere, and its lower level contains the ozone layer that absorbs and scatters the sun’s ultraviolet radiation,
Continue ReadingLAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A 13-year-old exchanged gunfire with police during a chase through a residential neighborhood in Florida, wounding one officer and ending up in the hospital after being shot himself, officials said. One officer was shot in the foot Wednesday evening in Lakeland, between Tampa and Orlando in central Florida, and is expected
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s defiant performance at the CNN town hall may ultimately hurt his standing with key groups of voters in next fall’s general election. But Trump also demonstrated his extraordinary grip on the voters who will decide the GOP’s looming 2024 nomination
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Hay un nuevo niño en el barrio. “Sesame Street” presentó recientemente a TJ, su primer personaje filipino, en un segmento con Kal Penn. Grover, TJ y su amiga Ji-Young, un muppet coreano-estadounidense que debutó en 2021, hablan con el actor sobre la palabra del día: confianza. La confianza, explica Penn, es
Continue ReadingBy SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — S.Y. Noh has a three-shot lead at the AT&T Byron Nelson after he tied the course record with an opening-round 60. Noh decided against going for the green in two on the par-5 18th. He made birdie and finished at 11-under even after dealing with
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general is suing a gun accessory manufacturer for selling a magazine lock that can be easily removed to attach high-capacity magazines. The magazine lock supplied by Georgia-based Mean Arms allowed a white gunman to insert multiple 30-round magazines to the AR-15
Continue ReadingFORT MOORE, Ga. (AP) — The Army’s training hub in Georgia is now officially called Fort Moore. The Army completed a name change Thursday that’s been a year in the making at the base known previously as Fort Benning. The Army post outside Columbus trains soldiers to fight in the infantry and in tank crews
Continue ReadingENID, Okla. (AP) — Sometimes a wrong call can really get your goat. Police in Enid, Oklahoma were seeking the source of faint distance cries in a video that has been widely shared from a Facebook post by the police department in the city about 70 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. The distressing noise that
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Mount St. Helens, the most active volcano in the Cascade Mountains in Washington. Facts Mount St. Helens is located in Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon, and 95 miles south of Seattle. It is administered by the National Forest Service, not the National Park Service. Over
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie, CNN The US ambassador to South Africa on Thursday accused the South African government of delivering arms and ammunition to a sanctioned Russian cargo vessel late last year, local media said. “Among the things we noted was the docking of the cargo ship in Simon’s Town naval base between the 6th to
Continue ReadingBy Reyna Katko Click here for updates on this story COLUMBIA, Missouri (KOMU) — Transgender minors in the state could no longer have access to gender-affirming care under a bill the GOP-led House passed Wednesday. This would include blocking access to hormones, puberty blockers and gender-affirming surgery. “They’re trying to ban something that they don’t
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — This was the moment that had many South Philadelphia residents saying: “He’s invited to all the cookouts!” Sgt. Kevin Woolner was stationed at the Double Dutch Meet Up event at the Wilson Rec Center over the weekend when he decided to show
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday is the NBA’s teammate of the year for the second straight year and third time in the last four seasons. The NBA announced on Thursday the voting results for the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. The award recognizes the player deemed the best teammate based on
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SANTA ANA, California (KABC) — A former cheerleading coach in Orange County has been charged with multiple felonies for molesting six girls – some as young as 11 years old. According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, 44-year-old Erick Joseph Kristianson of Antioch, Tennessee,
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