By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the Pacific’s Mariana Trench — has died. He was 92. Walsh died Nov.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Cure the holiday bah humbug with festive programming this December at your Deschutes Public Library. Learn to hand-tie a beautiful holiday wreath and save time and money with gifts in a jar. Live music fills the halls with performances by the Central Oregon Mastersingers, Central Oregon Symphony, Sisters Jazz Choir and
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — State authorities are investigating after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man on a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle over the weekend that was recorded on video. The deadly encounter occurred Sunday afternoon after the highway patrol responded to multiple calls
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A total of 61 educators representing 56 schools across Oregon, including 11 from Central Oregon, have been awarded more than $53,000 as part of SELCO Community Credit Union’s annual SPARK! Creative Learning Grants program.
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo Nueva York (CNN) — Lionel Messi, superestrella del fútbol, se ha alzado con múltiples récords en su carrera, y ahora está a punto de batir uno más. Sotheby’s subastará la próxima semana un conjunto de seis camisetas que Messi vistió durante el Mundial de 2022, en el cual su país, Argentina, se coronó
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is celebrating his 81st birthday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age. At the same time, the White House is strongly defending his stamina and playing down polling suggesting that the issue could cost him votes during next year’s election. Biden is the oldest
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha, who had been contributing to The New Yorker and other publications with reflections on his life inside Gaza during the war, has been released from detention after questioning, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In a statement Tuesday,
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Gun battles between police and armed civilians in Cuernavaca, Mexico, have left nine dead, including two police officers. The Cuernavaca security agency said Monday that two other police officers were wounded in shootouts that began after a convoy of gunmen opened fire on people who were drinking the in street and
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The leaders of Britain and South Korea are seeking to strengthen trade and defense ties between their countries during a state visit to the U.K. by President Yoon Suk Yeol. Yoon landed outside London on Monday ahead of his formal three-day visit. Britain hopes his trip will help cement an “Indo-Pacific tilt”
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The White House on Monday joined the social media platform Threads, delivering a boost to Meta’s X competitor as Elon Musk faces backlash for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The White House launched its own official account, as well as accounts for the president, first lady, vice president, and second
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington in a case that was unsealed Monday as tensions rise in the U.S. from the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. Kevin Brent Buchanan, 62, of Tooele, Utah, called the unidentified group at
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system can finally begin gathering signatures. After repeated delays, Citizens Not Politicians now has until July 3 to collect roughly 414,000 signatures required to make the November 2024 ballot. The amendment aims to replace the
Continue ReadingBy Robert Shackelford, Mary Gilbert and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous thunderstorms rumbled to life across parts of the South on Monday as more than 20 million people from eastern Texas to the Southeast faced a threat of damaging winds, hail and potentially strong tornadoes. The severe thunderstorms moved across eastern Texas and the
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have arrested a new suspect in the July 2021 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse. Defense attorney Jimmy Jean-Baptiste told The Associated Press on Monday that Jacmel mayor Macky Kessa was detained but has not been charged. He said Kessa is being held in
Continue ReadingCOFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas refinery has agreed to pay more than $23 million for violating the Clean Air Act and breaching an earlier settlement for pollution problems. Federal regulators say Monday that the violations by the Coffeyville refinery in southeastern Kansas resulted in illegal emissions from 2015 to 2017 that included an estimated
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El acuerdo de conformidad que alcanzó este lunes la cantante colombiana Shakira le ha ahorrado a la artista verse envuelta en un juicio en su contra que se iba a alargar, como mínimo, hasta mitades de diciembre. Eso, y la posibilidad de ser condenada a las penas solicitadas por la Fiscalía,
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Two Oregon State University College of Engineering faculty members are partnering with NASA on a $525,000 National Science Foundation project to examine the role that gravity, or the lack thereof, plays in microbial growth. Dorthe Wildenschild and Tala Navab-Daneshmand will send specimens to the International Space Station to see how biofilms – aggregates of microorganisms that
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The holidays are dedicated to gathering, gratitude and cherishing our loved ones, but it’s also essential to consider their health and well-being. As the holiday season begins, now is the perfect time to make sure all your loved ones are covered by enrolling in a quality health insurance plan at OregonHealthCare.gov from November
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act, a decision that contradicts decades of precedent and could
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