By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The US government will relaunch a program to provide free Covid-19 home tests to Americans, US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. “We will once again begin our program to provide Americans with an opportunity to request tests,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said during an event at
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan made false claims in his opening remarks at a Wednesday hearing at which Jordan and other Republicans pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Justice Department’s handling of investigations into former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Here
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Deschutes County’s offer to let anyone take apart the century-old A.J. Tucker Building in downtown Bend and reassemble it somewhere else got no takers earlier this year, so county commissioners agreed Wednesday to take apart and catalog pieces of the stone façade, for use elsewhere down the road.
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Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Cuando el club saudita Al-Hilal supuestamente planeó una oferta de US$ 1.100 millones para fichar a la superestrella del fútbol francés, Kylian Mbappé, –incluyendo US$ 332 millones para su club, el PSG, y un exorbitante paquete salarial de US$ 775 millones para el ganador del Mundial por solo un año– fue tachado
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It was a moment the diplomatic world was watching for — but didn’t get. In the end, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov avoided staring each other down at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. Zelenskyy left before Lavrov arrived. The near-miss
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday called the actions of 10 people arrested for blocking and “spewing hateful words” at a bus carrying migrants on Staten Island an “ugly” response to the ongoing crisis. The arrests came as the southern border region has seen
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court claims Google had been informed of
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Viajar por uno de los mejores aeropuertos del mundo será aún más fácil el año que viene. A partir de 2024, el aeropuerto Changi de Singapur introducirá un sistema automatizado de control de inmigración que permitirá a los pasajeros salir de la capital sin pasaporte, utilizando únicamente datos biométricos. “Singapur será
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Nostalgia only goes so far with “The Super Models,” a four-part Apple TV+ docuseries as glossy as a high-end fashion magazine of yore, and often as slim as one from the Internet age. Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington Burns lead this strut down memory
Continue ReadingBy Clare Sebastian, Anna Chernova, Katharina Krebs, Tim Lister and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh has come amid a sharp deterioration in the relationship between historic allies Armenia and Russia, and has been amplified by sometimes incendiary commentary from prominent individuals in Moscow. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other officials
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — A high-ranking Internal Revenue Service official has disputed claims by a whistleblower whose allegations about political interference into the Hunter Biden tax investigation are central to House Republican impeachment inquiries against President Joe Biden. In closed-door testimony obtained by CNN, IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf told
Continue ReadingBAGLEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A woman was rescued Tuesday from an outhouse toilet in northern Michigan after she climbed in to retrieve her Apple Watch and became trapped. State police say Wednesday that the woman lowered herself inside the toilet after dropping the watch at the Department of Natural Resources boat launch at Dixon
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Two lawsuits filed by a Detroit-area man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie “White Boy Rick” have been dismissed by a federal judge who found he waited too long to file them. U.S. District Court Judge Judge F. Kay Behm on Monday dismissed
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A venture capital firm that has backed buzzy new companies has become symbolic of the fight over corporate diversity policies. Fearless Fund has become a target of a lawsuit over a grant program for Black women. But it is a tiny player in the approximately
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday it has awarded $60.3 million to build systems to end youth homelessness in 16 communities across the country, among them four rural communities, including $953,950 to the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With no clear strategy, no sure support and not much time left, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy nevertheless vowed Wednesday he would not give up trying to persuade his colleagues to pass a temporary funding bill to prevent a federal government shutdown. But lawmakers watching
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s revolving door kept spinning this week as the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recently departed second-in-command returned for a new stint with the high-powered consulting firm where he previously advised Purdue Pharma and a drug distributor fighting sanctions over a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments.
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Mascarenhas and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The Alabama band director who was shocked by a police stun gun and arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game said the post-game songs had been arranged ahead of time and the whole experience has left him traumatized.
Continue ReadingBy Adam Campos Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (WKBW) — The Western New York staple, Chef’s Restaurant, will celebrate its 100th year anniversary this Friday. Chef’s has lived under one roof on Seneca Street in Downtown Buffalo for all of its time in business. The restaurant started as just a
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