By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s largest city. Concerns over large class sizes, salaries that haven’t kept up with inflation and a lack of
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s largest city. Concerns over large class sizes, salaries that haven’t kept up with inflation and a lack of
Continue ReadingBy Marybel Gonzalez Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — Chicago’s migrant population is dealing with their first winter snowfall – with many still waiting for a space in a shelter and sleeping outside in the cold. As CBS 2’s Marybel González reported Tuesday night, the city and volunteers have been
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Attempting to visit the apnews.com site at various points from Tuesday afternoon would load the
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish prosecution dismissed two separate cases against former defense minister, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, and ex-head of the country’s foreign intelligence service, Lars Findsen, due to the inability to divulge classified information in court. Both were charged with leaking state secrets. In a statement, Denmark’s prosecution
Continue ReadingBy C.C. McCandless Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A Las Vegas man who committed an additional felony offense while on release was sentenced by United States District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey to 111 months in prison followed by a 20-year term of supervised release for collecting and sharing thousands
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden traveled to Minnesota Wednesday to kick off a series of events by the administration aimed at connecting with rural America, a visit to the home state of a political rival where he will appeal to a voting bloc often ignored by Democrats. During a visit
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Police are searching for the driver who struck and then dragged a bicyclist for about one mile in a fatal hit-and-crash in the Van Nuys area. The driver was traveling southbound on Van Nuys Boulevard at Delano Street when they collided
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people gathered in Barrancas, Colombia on Tuesday to form a mass protest demanding the release of Liverpool FC star Luis Díaz’s father. Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife, Cilenis Marulanda, were kidnapped by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in Barrancas, the family’s home town,
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of the Keystone pipeline system and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say that the company has finished cleaning up a massive December 2022 oil spill in northeast Kansas. Canada-based TC Energy and the EPA’s regional office announced Tuesday that the creek affected by the
Continue ReadingBy Jory Rand Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Dawn Todd is one of two United Airlines flight attendants who has filed a lawsuit against the airline, saying they were discriminated against because of their race, age, religion and appearance. “I was told by a supervisor at United that I
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Savior of many a cramped pair of legs, the jet stream is well known for lopping roughly an hour off long haul west-to-east flights. But it’s working especially hard for travelers in economy class right now, with the jet stream over the Atlantic so strong that flights heading from the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The NASA Lucy mission had its first encounter with a space rock. The spacecraft, launched in October 2021, successfully completed a flyby of the small asteroid Dinkinesh, the agency confirmed on Wednesday. Lucy was expected to come within 265 miles (425 kilometers) of the asteroid’s surface during its closest
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Danish wind developer Orsted is halting the development of two massive New Jersey offshore wind projects due to cascading economic pressures, including skyrocketing interest rates and a supply chain crunch – two factors that have dogged wind energy projects up and down the East Coast. The decision is ominous news
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas says she won’t seek reelection in 2024. The Republican chairwoman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee is the nation’s longest-serving GOP congresswoman. The 80-year-old congresswoman said Wednesday that “it’s time for the next generation to step up.” Her decision ends a barrier-breaking career that
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a closing argument, a prosecutor told a New York jury to follow overwhelming evidence and the “pyramid of deceit” that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried constructed to conclude he’s guilty of fraud charges. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos launched a day of closings in Manhattan federal
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles III will attend the UN’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai this year and deliver an address at the opening ceremony, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday. Last year, the UK government, led by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss, advised the British monarch against attending the 2022 annual talks, which
Continue ReadingBy Kyle Jones and Logan Rude Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wis. (WISC) — MADISON, Wis. — UW-Madison officials said Tuesday that claims recently made on social media and shared by conservative commentator and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch about antisemitic protests outside UW Hillel were “significantly exaggerated.” On Tuesday, Loesch shared
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say an international conference seeking to reconstruct one of Libya’s coastal city’s, decimated in a fatal flood in early September, has begun. The two-day conference marks a tentative step toward the rebuilding of the city of Derna, with at total of 400 participants convening there
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria has expelled a Russian journalist for allegedly engaging in activities that pose a threat to the country’s national security. The State Agency for National Security said the correspondent for Russian state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta was barred from entering Bulgaria and other European Union member nation. The agency says Alexander Gatsak
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