By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NBA’s Board of Governors approved two rule changes for the coming season Tuesday. One change gives coaches a second challenge if their first one is successful. The other will mean a technical foul will be called against players who flop. The challenge rule change
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Beginning Friday and lasting through the weekend, thousands are expected to take part in the “Gambler 500” in around the Crooked River National Grassland. The event is an adventure challenge to clean up trash sites across public lands in the area.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — La presión que ejerció el Gobierno de Biden en los días previos a la cumbre de la OTAN culminó meses de diplomacia tras bastidores para conseguir que Turquía aceptara la adhesión de Suecia a la alianza. Una parte importante de ese esfuerzo diplomático consistió en lograr avances para la posible venta
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is offering $20 gift cards to people who donate at least $1 to his presidential campaign. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has promised grassroots fundraisers a 10% cut of the money they bring into his campaign. Other candidates are just pleading for $1 donations or offering
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out has received a record number of reports of discriminatory behavior during the 2022-23 soccer season. Figures released by the organization showed 1,007 reports were made during the campaign from the grassroots and professional games in Britain and across social media. That’s an increase of 65.1% over the
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out has received a record number of reports of discriminatory behavior during the 2022-23 soccer season. Figures released by the organization showed 1,007 reports were made during the campaign from the grassroots and professional games in Britain and across social media. That’s an increase of 65.1% over the
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Corvallis police have identified a 65-year-old Prineville woman who was killed in a crash last week that also injured four other people.
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Es probable que Michael Burham, el recluso que escapó de una cárcel del noroeste de Pensilvania, continúe en el área y esté recibiendo ayuda mientras evade a 200 agentes de seguridad que le siguen el rastro, señaló George Bivens, teniente coronel de la policía estatal, este martes en una conferencia de prensa.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA is changing its All-Star skills challenge with the new format pitting four sets of teammates against each other in a head-to-head competition. The league announced the two-round competition on Tuesday that will include a timed obstacle course relay competition that showcases players’ agility, dribbling, passing and shooting skills. The
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(Update: adding local alert weather forecast video) Hey there! Hope all is well and you’re enjoying your week. Expect clear skies Tuesday tonight with an average low between 40 and 51 degrees. Hold on to your hats as winds will pick up, gusting upwards of 26 mph through Wednesday evening. We are instore for lots
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on the Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists says a new geologic epoch began then. Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the
Continue ReadingWARREN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities searching for a homicide suspect who used bedsheets to escape from a northwestern Pennsylvania jail last week say items found in the last 24 hours lead them to believe he is still in the area. Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said earlier that campsites and small
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Watt, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless population actually grew. Half of all Americans living outside on the streets, federal data shows, live in California.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Larry Nassar was stabbed in his cell at a federal penitentiary in Florida, out of view of surveillance cameras pointed at common areas and corridors. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack. The person
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una “tormenta perfecta” se está desarrollando este verano boreal, según advirtió un científico del clima a CNN, a medida que ciertos ingredientes atmosféricos se combinan para producir inundaciones mortales en el noreste de EE.UU. y el calor récord en el suroeste estadounidense y en todo el mundo. Las inundaciones mortales anegaron
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is backing off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists “are racists.” Tuberville’s brief comment Tuesday follows several media interviews in which he has repeatedly declined to describe white nationalists as racist. And it comes as
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say a suspect has been arrested in an early morning shooting in a nightclub area of downtown Cleveland that sent nine people to the hospital. Federal marshals and city police arrested the 25-year-old suspect in Lorain in the Cleveland suburbs just after 3:45 p.m. Tuesday. Police are still searching for the
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The pickleball craze is hitting the big leagues. Courts for the tennis/badminton/ping pong hybrid were being laid out in Fenway Park on Tuesday in preparation for a weekend that will give fans of the sport a chance to watch the pros play or even give it
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The pickleball craze is hitting the big leagues. Courts for the tennis/badminton/ping pong hybrid were being laid out in Fenway Park on Tuesday in preparation for a weekend that will give fans of the sport a chance to watch the pros play or even give it
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, ERIC TUCKER and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responding to Associated Press investigative stories on the Supreme Court, said Tuesday it was time for the justices to bring their conduct in line with the ethical standards of other branches of government. “If they just establish the
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