By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Claus Guth’s controversial staging of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” set on a spaceship and a planet’s barren surface, returns to the Paris Opéra six years after an audience uproar at its premiere caused conductor Gustavo Dudamel to momentarily stop the show. Guth imagines the drama unfolding across an unspecified future, perhaps
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN The Met Gala figures prominently in the past love story of Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, so it felt right that they would meet up again at the annual event. The pair, who split in August 2022 after less than a year of dating, were photographed Monday during the festivities
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A coalition of 30 news organizations launched another effort Monday to get a gag order lifted in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. The coalition, which includes The Associated Press, had asked the Idaho Supreme Court
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple and Google are teaming up to thwart unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices that were created to help people find lost keys, keep tabs on luggage or to locate other things that have a tendency to be misplaced or lost. The two companies behind the iPhone and the software that powers
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — El gobierno de Australia prohibirá los cigarrillos electrónicos mediante un estricto control de las importaciones y los envases para desincentivar el vapeo, especialmente entre los adolescentes, en el marco de su mayor reforma del tabaquismo en más de una década. El ministro de Sanidad de Australia, Mark Butler, declaró
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have signed right wing Marcus Johansson to a two-year, $4 million contract to secure a key player who was set to become an unrestricted free agent. Johansson’s salary cap hit of $2 million for the next two seasons will give general
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business A decade ago, the Tesla Model S was MotorTrend’s Car of the Year and Consumer Reports hailed it as the best car it had ever tested. It was so good, Consumer Reports had to rethink its own rating scale because the Model S was literally off the charts. The Model
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer Bob Baffert won’t be saddling any horses in the Kentucky Derby this weekend. The winner of a record-tying six Derbies will miss the race for the second straight year while completing a two-year suspension issued by Churchill Downs Inc. He was banned after his 2021 winner, Medina Spirit, failed
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA’s newest academic progress rate score is steady at 984. That’s despite slight decreases in men’s basketball, football and women’s basketball. Each athlete on each team receives one point each semester they are academically eligible and each semester they remain in school or graduate. The cutline is 930. The NCAA attributes
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Adventure lifestyle company POWDR announced Tuesday that John Merriman has been named the new president and general manager of Mt. Bachelor Ski & Snowboard Resort in Bend, three months after the departure of John McLeod from the role.
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls and Nimi Princewill, CNN Uganda’s parliament has passed an amended version of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 on Tuesday. Under the new proposed bill, homosexual conduct will still be illegal, but identifying as homosexual without conducting in homosexual acts will not be outlawed. The bill, however, retains its more extreme elements, including the death penalty for
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer A person familiar with the situation says the Green Bay Packers and quarterback Jordan Love have agreed to terms on a one-year contract extension that makes his deal run through 2024, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor around a rocky exoplanet that orbits a star located 26 light-years away from Earth. Now, astronomers are trying to determine whether that water vapor is an indicator of what would be the first-known presence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. Small,
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says a review of a Montana nuclear missile base where an unusual number of troops have reported being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma has found no immediate risk factors. The same was true at two other bases that could launch ground-based warheads, the service said
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators have barely written the epitaph for First Republic Bank, but investors on Wall Street have already moved onto speculating which bank might be the next to fail. Bank stocks fell sharply Tuesday, led downward by smaller banks with heavy exposure to uninsured deposits and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A wealthy attorney who came close to being elected governor of Maine in 2010 is expected to plead guilty to possessing videos and images of child sexual abuse and to serve nine months in prison, according to a court document. Seventy-six-year-old Eliot Cutler is due in
Continue ReadingBy HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled a hospital cannot be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19. The decision upholds a lower court’s ruling against Allen Gahl, who sued Aurora Health Care in 2021 when doctors refused to treat
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The Family Access Network recently received a $5,000 grant at the recommendation of First Interstate Bank’s Redmond branch. These funds will support the services of FAN’s 27 advocates who work directly in public schools throughout Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN It’s been four months since Allison Holker lost her husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss to suicide, and she still doesn’t have many answers. In her first interview since Boss died at the age of 40, days after their ninth wedding anniversary, Holker told People magazine, “It’s been really hard because I
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration have been tracking a balloon that was flying off the coast of Hawaii last week. A defense official says there’s no indication it is connected to China or any other adversary, and it presents no threats to aviation
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