By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline will now be available to the millions of people across the US who use American Sign Language (ASL), according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. The ASL services launched Friday and will be available for callers who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court is once again being asked to make a major ruling on abortion in an election year. The Department of Justice and a manufacturer of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reverse a lower court ruling
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — CPAP sleep apnea machine maker Philips Respironics agreed to pay at least $479 million in a settlement over alleged health risks from toxic sound reducing foam, lawyers for the plaintiff announced Thursday. The settlement will go toward users who bought or rented the recalled devices and those
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to kicking a handcuffed man in the face during a 2021 arrest has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. A federal judge also ordered Sgt. Eric Huxley on Friday to two years of supervised release after he completes his prison
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro. When the Studio Ghibli logo of the magical creature from Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” appeared on the screen Thursday night, it meant to the audience the premiere of Miyazaki’s latest
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — A retired pediatrician from Pittsburgh who helped create the ‘Mr. Yuk’ poison warning for kids has died. Dr. Richard W. Moriarty was 83. The funeral home handling arrangements says he died Thursday. Moriarty was involved in establishing and developing the Pittsburgh Poison Center, where he served as director. He has said children
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — Nearly every presidential center released a joint statement on Thursday emphasizing the principles of democracy and deeming civil political discourse essential, the first known time that presidential foundations and centers have joined to release a statement calling to protect democracy. “Americans have a strong interest in supporting democratic
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Migración Colombia informó de la detención del exsenador Arturo Char, contra quien la Suprema Corte de Justicia había dictado orden de captura internacional “por los presuntos delitos de corrupción electoral y compra de votos”, según un comunicado publicado por el máximo tribunal del país. La medida surge de la investigación
Continue ReadingBy BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Luxury fashion house Dior has confirmed that longtime former artistic director Marc Bohan has died at 97. The couturier served as a designer for the brand for nearly three decades. His designs have been worn by the likes of Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. Bohan was known for crafting Dior’s
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to pay about $191,000 and submit to multiple sanctions after a 16-year-old boy was killed on the job this past summer. Michael Schuls died in July after he became pinned in a wood-stacking machine at Florence Hardwoods. He died two days
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia recommended charges against 39 people, the unredacted grand jury report made public Friday shows. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who had the ultimate charging authority, indicted 19
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Federal Aviation Administration indicated Friday that it is moving toward requiring that planes be equipped with technology designed to prevent close calls around airports. Many new airline jets are equipped with some of this technology, but older ones are not, and neither are many private planes. The FAA
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The Phil’s Trailhead skills area and pump track west of Bend is temporarily closed for two weeks for maintenances and upgrades by the Central Oregon Trail Alliance (COTA).
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the eight years since the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, the world’s nations have not done enough to cut pollution and avert catastrophic levels of warming, according to the first United Nations scorecard since Paris, released on Friday. As the world’s nations gather for COP28 in Dubai in late
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Carey and Amarachi Orie, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Early data from South America shows that the flu vaccine has cut the risk of hospitalization in half this year, a hopeful sign that the vaccine will provide a similar level of protection in the United States as the country heads into its own respiratory virus season. The Southern
Continue ReadingBy KATHIA MARTÍNEZ Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama says it will increase deportations and infrastructure in the area of the Darien jungle along its shared border with Colombia. Officials want to contain a record-breaking flow of migrants passing through there this year. Immigration chief Samira Gozaine said President Laurentino Cortizo has authorized hiring
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía de Ecuadorrealizó nuevos arrestos y medidas de registro por el asesinato del excandidato presidencial, Fernando Villavicencio. “Fiscalía y Policía ejecutan allanamientos en las provincias de Pichincha, Cotopaxi y Chimborazo, como parte de las diligencias del caso en el que se investiga el asesinato del excandidato presidencial Fernando Villavicencio”,
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Collaboration between art and government sometimes breeds conflict. The postponement of a Mesa, Arizona, art exhibition over a perceived anti-police work by artist Shepard Fairey is the latest in a recent series of conflicts in city-run art shows. Artists expect autonomy over what they display, even in
Continue ReadingBy EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — When Augusto Pinochet installed himself as Chile’s dictator in 1973, the age of majority was set at 21 years. But being a minor was no protection from the military dictatorship’s crackdown. Children were killed, detained, tortured, and even used as decoys to detain their parents in
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