CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Some journalists are making the ultimate sacrifice while covering the war between Israel and Hamas. At least seven journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Hamas launched its brazen assault on Saturday, according to press freedom groups and media reports. That number could rise even further
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A group of pickleball players in Bend are advocating and raising money for lights at the Pine Nursery Courts west pickleball courts.
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers, Denise Royal and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The Tallahassee NAACP and civil rights attorney Ben Crump are asking authorities to drop felony voter fraud charges against a 69-year-old Black woman who was arrested last month as part of a Florida elections investigation. Investigators allege Marsha Ervin, after serving a prison
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Tras los letales ataques de Hamas contra Israel, el expresidente Donald Trump ha recurrido a la estrategia que empleó durante la campaña de 2016 de utilizar el terror en el extranjero – y el temor a futuros ataques en suelo estadounidense – para impulsar políticas de inmigración de línea dura en
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose debut novel “Daddy Was a Number Runner” is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender and class, has died. She was 100. Her book was published in 1970 and sold hundreds of thousands of
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A Navy sailor pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending sensitive US military information to a Chinese intelligence officer, the Justice Department announced. Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, of Monterey Park, California, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the Chinese officer and receiving a bribe. Zhao worked at Naval Base Ventura
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is defending her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic by presenting statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings. The governor said at a Tuesday news conference that
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — “Monk” is returning. Tony Shalhoub will resume his titular role in “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie,” which premieres on Dec. 8 on Peacock. “It’s been twelve years since the world has seen a fresh installment of ‘Monk.’ The world has changed mightily in those intervening years and
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Measure 110, the voter-approved law that removes criminal penalties for possessing a small amount of drugs, is under serious scrutiny by the community, local and state leaders.
Continue ReadingBy EBRAHIM NOROOZI and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press CHAHAK, Afghanistan (AP) — Another strong earthquake has shaken western Afghanistan days after one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history. Saturday’s temblors killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province. Wednesday’s magnitude 6.3 earthquake was centered about 17 miles
Continue ReadingBY ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer has ended a 8,950-mile run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution. Australians will vote on Saturday at a referendum that would enshrine
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — Joseph Joel John, exsenador de Haití, se declaró culpable ante autoridades de Estados Unidos de haber conspirado con otras personas para cometer el asesinato de Jovenel Moïse, entonces presidente del país caribeño. El crimen ocurrió el 7 de julio de 2021 y agudizó la crisis política en Haití. El acuerdo
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A spooky image of a mushroom, a beached orca taking its final breaths, and a pair of Nubian ibex battling on a clifftop are among the winning images of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023 competition. This year’s grand title was awarded to French underwater photographer and marine
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Un sismo de magnitud 6,3 sacudió Afganistán, cerca de la frontera con Irán, la madrugada de este miércoles (hora local), según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El foco sísmico estuvo localizado a 10 kilómetros de profundidad y el epicentro se ubicó a 28,3 kilómetros
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Phillips, the author, commentator and political strategist whose landmark 1969 book, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” became a blueprint for GOP thinking in the 1970s and beyond, has died. He was 82. Phillips foresaw Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory as the beginning of a paradigm shift
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have come to a interim custody agreement that will see their two daughters splitting their time between two countries. “After a productive and successful mediation, we have agreed that the children will spend time equally in loving homes in both the US and the
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK DONNELLY Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Big Ten got an unexpected boost in the offseason when Zach Edey decided to return to Purdue for a fourth year. But the question remains whether Edey’s towering presence will make a difference next March. Or will Purdue’s well-publicized struggles in the NCAA Tournament — emblematic
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Dozens of people have been evacuated from their homes in Argentina’s central Córdoba province as forest fires grow amid an intense heat wave. Images and video from the area showed massive flames in hills surrounding populated areas as firefighters worked o combat the flames that had reached some homes in
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two laws to require the California State University system and urge the University of California system to update the state on their progress to return Native American remains to tribes. These campuses are mandated by law to return remains
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a U.S. Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China has pleaded guilty to conspiring with a foreign intelligence officer and receiving a bribe. Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao originally pleaded not guilty when he was charged Aug. 4. The Justice Department alleges that the 26-year-old conspired
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