By Rob Hodgetts, CNN (CNN) — From the litany of bad headlines surrounding the world of travel, you could be forgiven thinking it’s been the summer from hell for vacationers. Environmental disasters, aviation industry mishaps and strikes, dirty beaches, soaring temperatures, deluges, price hikes and overcrowding all seem to have conspired to ruin getaways for
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El ciclón postropical Lee está provocando fuertes lluvias, vientos destructivos e inundaciones costeras en Canadá y Maine, dejando sin electricidad a decenas de miles de personas, azotando las costas con grandes olas y provocando llamados a permanecer en casa. Lee, que alguna vez fue un poderoso huracán, está agitando vientos máximos
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — During the final days of 1936, about 50 autoworkers at General Motors shut down their machines at Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, and sat down. The workers, members of the tiny United Automobile Workers union founded just a year prior, sought to improve brutal
Continue ReadingBy Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — The numbers on an Maryland woman’s license plate led her to win a $50,000 lottery prize from a $1 ticket. The 50-year-old Baltimore woman, who hasn’t been publicly identified, was assigned the lucky license plate with her new car a few years ago. She initially didn’t like the numbers
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, Nouran Salahieh and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Authorities will be offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat inside his patrol car, they announced Sunday. Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer,
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Newly acquitted of impeachment charges, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is back on the job and getting back to the usual. Promises to keep dragging the Biden administration into court. Support from former President Donald Trump. And coming soon, a sit-down
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Barely a week after being elected as a local councilor for Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, Womberaiishe Nhende and a relative were pulled out of their car by unidentified men, shot with a stun gun and handcuffed. They were then bundled into a pickup truck and driven
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president said the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he plans to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week. Worries about Russian-North Korean ties have
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La fuga del asesino convicto Danilo Cavalcante y la persecución de casi dos semanas que condujo a su captura pusieron a las autoridades de Pensilvania en el punto de mira. Desde la forma en que Cavalcante subió como un cangrejo por los muros de la prisión hasta la libertad, pasando por
Continue ReadingBy HAZEM TURKIA and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Zahra el-Gerbi wasn’t expecting much of a response to her online fundraiser, but she felt she had to do something after four of her relatives died in the flooding that decimated the eastern Libyan city of Derna. She put out a call for
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads as shipping costs soar. That comes as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and send tons of corn and soybeans downriver to New
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT F. BUKATY and DAVID SHARP Associated Press BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Atlantic storm Lee — which made landfall at near-hurricane strength, bringing destructive winds and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada — kept weakening Sunday after officials withdrew warnings and predicted the storm would disappear early this week. The U.S.
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Saturday marked Day 2 of the three-day, 17th annual Bend Roots Revival music festival. It’s a free event for the community, where you can listen to more than 100 bands over the weekend. For the festival, there are seven different stages, four at Silver Moon Brewing and three more at the Bunk and Brew. You can listen to a
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Downtown Bend is getting a new mural behind Chase Bank, thanks to Greetings Tour, which creates timeless landmarks through public art. Muralist Victor Ving and his wife, photographer Lisa Beggs, have created more than 60 murals in more than 25 states. Their goal is to have postcard mural attractions in all 50 states. The couple has painted murals from Orlando
Continue ReadingCNN By Heather Law, Nechirvan Mando, Heather Chen, Sahar Akbarzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Protests erupted throughout Iran on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old women who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly.
Continue ReadingBy Heather Law, Nechirvan Mando, Heather Chen, Sahar Akbarzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Protests erupted throughout Iran on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old women who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly. Video
Continue ReadingPALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are asking for the public’s help and offering a $250,000 reward as investigators search for the assailant who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat in his patrol car at an intersection. Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, died Saturday at a hospital. Sheriff Robert Luna says
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The remnants of post-tropical cyclone Lee were moving out over the ocean and away from Atlantic Canada on Monday, after US officials announced at least two deaths due to the storm. Lee, once a powerful hurricane, churned northward with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph on Sunday after making
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — In a basement in one of the front-line cities in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, people gather three times a week in the morning for yoga to alleviate the stress caused by the constant shelling from Russian artillery. Soothing music fills the basement in Kramatorsk, where the humid
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of US soldiers for a peacekeeper training exercise in Armenia has rankled the Russian government, which has for decades acted as the sole security guarantor for the former Soviet republic. The 10-day “Eagle Partner” exercise, which began Monday, involves 85 US and 175 Armenian soldiers and aims
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