By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The father of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is calling on world leaders meeting at the United Nations next week to stand up for freedom of the press and urge Russia to release him. Mikhail Gershkovich came to U.N. headquarters with his wife
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First Interstate Bank locations across 14 states closed at noon Wednesday so employees could help out in the community for their sixth annual Volunteer Day, and Central Oregon was no exception.
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The brother of an Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border says his sibling has been granted U.S. asylum, allowing him to remain in the country. Abdul Wasi Safi is one of thousands
Continue ReadingBy ERALDO PERES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands. Under a huge white marquee, models adorned with headdresses, necklaces and
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN)– Un juez federal de Texas dictaminó este miércoles que una regulación destinada a preservar el programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés), es ilegal, en lo que representa un duro golpe para el Gobierno de Biden. El año pasado, el Gobierno trató de
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee began to unleash strong winds on Bermuda Thursday morning, ahead of a track which will bring heavy rain, wind and coastal flooding from the massive storm to coastal New England and Atlantic Canada Friday and through the weekend. After days of uncertainty, there’s
Continue ReadingHUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say a teenage driver has been arrested on suspicion of intentionally striking three bicyclists and killing one of them last weekend in Southern California. Police say the three hit-and-run collisions occurred in less than an hour Sunday night in Huntington Beach. A 70-year-old man died at the scene of
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden have filed a civil lawsuit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, alleging illegal hacking in violation of federal computer privacy laws. The suit, filed in federal court in California, accuses Ziegler of “accessing, tampering with, manipulation, altering, copying and damaging computer data that
Continue ReadingEWING, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a manhunt for a Tennessee homicide suspect is no longer focused on Virginia’s westernmost county. But the Lee County Sheriff declined to release more details Wednesday because of the investigation’s sensitivity. Authorities say that Jason Dockery is suspected in Tuesday’s shooting death of a woman in Tennessee’s Anderson County,
Continue ReadingCNN By Haley Talbot and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday defended her approach to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019, in her first public comments on the Republican effort to launch an inquiry into President Joe Biden. Pelosi, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Para bien o para mal, todas las miradas parecían estar puestas sobre Selena Gomez durante los MTV Video Music Awards este martes. La cantante y actriz llegó a la alfombra rosa luciendo un vestido rojo floral de Óscar de la Renta con accesorios a juego. Gomez celebró a su amiga Taylor
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — This week the United States’ biggest newspaper chain posted to its site two unusual job listings: a Taylor Swift reporter and a Beyoncé reporter. Gannett, which owns more than 200 daily papers, will employ these new hires through USA Today and The Tennessean,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Talbot and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday defended her approach to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019, in her first public comments on the Republican effort to launch an inquiry into President Joe Biden. Pelosi, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El ministro de Economía y candidato a presidente por Unión por la Patria, Sergio Massa, anunció este miércoles la devolución del impuesto IVA a trabajadores, jubilados y monotributistas (también conocidos como trabajadores autónomos), a través de un programa que fue bautizado como “Compre sin IVA”. De acuerdo con el ministro, esto beneficiaría
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in federal prison in the carjacking of a U.S. congresswoman’s sport utility vehicle in a Philadelphia park almost two years ago. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 21-year-old Josiah Brown was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia. U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon
Continue ReadingSHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A woman has been found guilty of throwing her sons into a Louisiana lake, killing a 10-month-old and injuring a 5-year-old. The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office says in a news release that jurors deliberated about two hours before returning unanimous verdicts against 34-year-old Ureka Rochelle Black of Shreveport. Black was
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Trustees at California State University, the nation’s largest public university system, have voted to raise student tuition by 6% each year for five consecutive years to try to narrow a $1.5 billion deficit. CSU’s governing board on Wednesday voted 15-5 to approve the increases that
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — Descendants of enslaved Africans on Georgia’s Sapelo Island – one of the last intact Gullah Geechee communities in the state – are worried their cultural heritage and property could soon be lost after city officials voted to change the island’s zoning laws. Historians believe Hogg Hammock, on Sapelo Island,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer already convicted in the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history has now been convicted on charges of possessing child sexual abuse images. A jury returned its verdict Wednesday in Manhattan federal court against Joshua Schulte. Authorities say the latest conviction resulted from the discovery
Continue ReadingBy Jack Hannah, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge blocked a temporary order from New Mexico’s governor that suspended the rights to carry guns in public, according to statements from the governor’s office and from the gun rights advocacy group that filed the lawsuit over the original order. The ban is part of a public
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