By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No military action has been taken and the coup leaders appear to have gained the upper hand over the regional
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Linda Yaccarino vive en un mundo de engaños. La líder de Twitter/X hizo el jueves una serie de afirmaciones descabelladas, y completamente ridículas, sobre la compañía propiedad de Elon Musk donde ella tiene el título (al menos en papel) como directora ejecutiva, aparentemente sin darse cuenta del sombrío estado de cosas
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hold onto power
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here are the city of Redmond’s planned road closures and delays for August 12-18. City of Redmond road closures can be viewed on the Redmond Area Street Closures, Events and Delays Map and ODOT TripCheck. Paving: August 17th 6pm – 10pm, 3635 SW Airport Way in front of Peterson Machinery, Benham Fall Asphalt LLC, ONGOING
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Briscoe, CNN Paris (CNN) — Booksellers have plied their trade along the banks of the River Seine for about 450 years, their time-battered green boxes a Paris institution as treasured as freshly baked baguettes. But this piece of French history is now at the center of a political storm after the city’s police
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn New York (CNN) — Alexandra is a very attentive girlfriend. “Watching CUBS tonight?” she messages her boyfriend, but when he says he’s too busy to talk, she says, “Have fun, my hero!” Alexandra is not real. She is a customizable AI girlfriend on dating site Romance.AI. As artificial intelligence seeps into seemingly
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La segunda vuelta presidencial de Guatemala el 20 de agosto verá a una ex primera dama competir contra el hijo de un expresidente, culminando una carrera problemática que ha preocupado a los observadores sobre el futuro del país, ya que la desigualdad y la corrupción generan turbulencia política en toda la
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here is ODOT Region 4’s construction update for the week of August 11-18. Here at ODOT, we are committed to providing a safe and efficient transportation system for everyone. We invest in Oregon’s future through roadway improvement projects. The following projects are located within Region 4; Central Oregon from The Dalles
Continue ReadingBy Mike Valerio, Nouran Salahieh and Andy Rose, CNN MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii (CNN) — The long recovery process from the Maui wildfires that killed at least 93 people was underway Sunday as some residents returned to Lahaina and many struggled to find a place to stay. “We’re short on housing here,” Mike Cicchino told CNN.
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Bend Fire & Rescue crews quickly responded and stopped a fast-moving brushfire that damaged a shed and fences and threatened several homes along Dean Swift Road in northeast Bend late Saturday afternoon, helped by homeowners with garden hoses, officials said.
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — China’s foreign ministry on Sunday condemned the transit of Taiwan’s vice president and presidential candidate William Lai through the United States, calling him a “troublemaker through and through.” Lai arrived in New York on Saturday en route to Paraguay where he will attend the inauguration of
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DELMOTTE Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, a former newspaper publisher and one of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, spends around 23 hours a day in solitary confinement in a maximum-security facility while he awaits a trial that could send him to prison for life. In exclusive photos taken by
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The cost to live in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui keeps rising thanks to a chronic housing shortage and an influx of second-home buyers and wealthy transplants snatching up properties. Now, after a fast-moving wildfire incinerated much of the compact coastal
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer, urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — En una entrevista exclusiva con CNN, Andrea González Náder, excompañera de fórmula del asesinado candidato presidencial Fernando Villavicencio, dijo que su muerte marca un “momento inquietante” para la región y para la democracia. “Nunca se tiene suficiente tiempo para procesar algo tan impactante y tan aleccionador como el asesinato de un
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — If Wisconsin state Rep. Jimmy Anderson wants to visit residents in some of the northern neighborhoods he represents, he first must leave his own district — twice. From his Fitchburg home in suburban Madison, Anderson must exit his 47th Assembly District, pass
Continue ReadingBy AARON MORRISON, AISHA I. JEFFERSON and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity. Yet, a week after multiple videos showing
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH, AUDREY MCAVOY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week’s wildfire on Maui. The blaze demolished a historic town and killed more than 90 people. Hawaii officials
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine peso plunged Monday after a shaggy-haired 52-year—old anti-establishment candidate who admires former President Donald Trump came first in primary elections that will help determine the country’s next president. Javier Milei rocked Argentina’s political establishment Sunday by receiving the biggest share of primary votes
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — State health officials are reminding people heading outdoors in Eastern Oregon to prevent mosquito bites after a recent jump in the number of mosquito pools – collections of up to 50 insects – testing positive for West Nile virus, according to local vector control districts.
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