The Giving Plate has a food pantry on wheels, just for kids! It’s called the Kid’s Korner Mobile Pantry, which made a stop in Sunriver Saturday. It’s for kids, up to 17 years old, to choose all kinds of snacks inside the rolling pantry, from fresh fruit to granola bars. Also, kids have an opportunity to earn Kid’s Korner cash. For
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ryan Gauld scored a goal in each half and added an assist to propel the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 3-2 victory over the Portland Timbers on Saturday night. Vancouver (9-8-7), which was coming off a 1-0 win over the Los Angeles Galaxy in the Leagues Cup, won two straight away from
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Some students moving on campus at Ferris State University this fall won’t have to leave their furry friends back home, thanks to a program the Michigan school is piloting. As a remedy for the anxiety and homesickness, Ferris State is trying out a pet-friendly residence hall floor in
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Uliana Pavlova and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — For more than nine years, Russian tourists vacationing in Crimea didn’t need to give much thought to the fact that their country was waging war on Ukraine – or that their sun lounger was parked on occupied territory. But with Kyiv’s counteroffensive underway, the
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors type. The daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Chicago’s suburbs, her forays into nature usually amounted to a bike ride to a community park. She was interested in wild animals but had no idea she
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors type. The daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Chicago’s suburbs, her forays into nature usually amounted to a bike ride to a community park. She was interested in wild animals but had no idea she
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun while on various other jobs. But last summer, while on a construction crew in
Continue ReadingBy Irene Nasser (CNN) — North Korea has announced it will allow its citizens living abroad to return home in an easing of its coronavirus-era border controls. But it will still require them to do a one-week quarantine. The country has decided to “adjust the anti-epidemic degree in reference to the eased worldwide pandemic situation,”
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press The contents of a long-forgotten time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point and believed to have been left by cadets in the late 1820s are set to be revealed. The container to be pried open Monday was discovered in May during restoration to a
Continue ReadingBy Eleni Giokos and Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Athens, Greece (CNN) — In Agia Paraskevi, one of the villages dotted around Mount Panitha, just 15 miles north of Greece’s capital, Athens, we found a familiar sight: a woman standing in front of a burned house, its black, skeletal roof beams reaching imploringly into the smoldering sky
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it will allow its citizens staying abroad to return home in line with easing pandemic situations worldwide. The North’s State Emergency Epidemic Prevention Headquarters said Sunday that returnees will be put in quarantine for a week for “proper medical observation.” The announcement
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, Brad Lendon, Angus Watson, Jake Kwon and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Three US Marines have been killed and several others seriously wounded after an Osprey aircraft crashed during military exercises in Australia. Of the 23 Marines on board the MV-22B Osprey aircraft, three died and five others were taken to the
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz Monahon at McMurdo Station grabbed a hammer. If those in charge weren’t going to protect her from the man she feared would kill her, she figured,
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment and macho culture have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish. The National Science Foundation, which oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a 2022 report in
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The lightning-sparked Camp Creek Fire on the Mt. Hood National Forest has grown to about 1,600 acres, burning in the Bull Run Watershed that serves about 1 million Portland-area residents, but better weather limited its growth on Sunday, officials said.
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press FUTABA, Japan (AP) — For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since the meltdown in March 2011. Its release marks a milestone for the decommissioning, which is expected to
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — La “Messimanía” tuvo una gran presentación en el área de Nueva York el sábado después de que Lionel Messi hiciera su debut en la temporada regular de la Major League Soccer (MLS). Sin embargo, los aficionados que asistieron al partido entre el Inter Miami de Messi y New York
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, Shirin Faqiri and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner in the country’s presidential elections on Saturday after securing an absolute majority in a tense presidential contest that was marred by delays. “The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has announced the 2023 presidential election results. His Excellency
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful gang opened fire Saturday on a large group of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a community armed with machetes to rid the area of gang members. The attack was filmed in real time by journalists at the scene, and several
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Debido a las fallas registradas el 20 de agosto en el voto telemático de los ecuatorianos que residen en el exterior durante las elecciones generales en Ecuador, el pleno del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) resolvió la noche de este viernes acoger un pedido de nulidad del voto en
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