By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting in a jungle area near the northeastern border with China, lamented that he’d never seen such intense action. His commander in Myanmar’s
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The Bend Christmas Parade is back this weekend, with a new twist.
Continue ReadingBy Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US-based biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences, which is pursuing the “de-extinction” of multiple species, including the woolly mammoth, has entered a partnership with the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Israeli military has released 30 more Palestinian prisoners after eight more Israeli hostages were freed from captivity in the Gaza Strip under the temporary cease-fire. The army says the Israeli hostages are receiving medical care in Israel and are being reunited with their families. This marks the seventh straight night
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A Deschutes County killer who accepted a life prison term to avoid a death-penalty trial in the 1989 rape, robbery and killing of a Bend woman died Wednesday evening at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, the Oregon Department of Corrections said Thursday.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Según un nuevo estudio, los gemelos sanos que siguieron una dieta vegana durante ocho semanas presentaron un nivel más bajo de colesterol “malo” de lipoproteínas de baja densidad (LDL), mejores niveles de azúcar en sangre y una mayor pérdida de peso que sus hermanos que siguieron una dieta de carne y
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro convocó a un referendo para, según dice, reafirmar sus derechos sobre el territorio del Esequibo, que está en disputa con Guyana desde finales del siglo XIX. En esa consulta popular, que se llevará a cabo el 3 de diciembre, Venezuela les preguntará a sus ciudadanos
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how hackers breached a water utility system near Pittsburgh. The attack prompted the nation’s top cyberdefense agency to warn other water and sewage-treatment utilities they may be vulnerable. In a letter
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy says the ban “oversteps state power and infringes on the Constitutional right of
Continue ReadingCNN By Ibrahim Dahman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said the attackers behind a Jerusalem bus stop shooting that killed three people on Thursday were members of its military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades. Seven people were also injured after the two attackers, identified by Hamas as two brothers, opened fire on a group of
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily halted Montana’s groundbreaking statewide TikTok ban, which was set to go into effect at the start of 2024, pending a trial on the matter. In an order, US District Judge Donald Molloy said that despite the state government’s attempt to
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Más de 10 años tuvieron que esperar los ecuatorianos para que el primer sistema de metro del país comience a funcionar. El Metro de Quito arranca su operación comercial este 1 de diciembre en medio de la expectativa de usuarios y autoridades sobre los resultados de la que promete ser una
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court against incumbent Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in 2025. In his campaign launch Thursday, Schimel cast the race as a chance for conservatives to win back a majority and serve as a check on
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press The owner of two precious metals mines in south-central Montana is stopping work on an expansion project and laying off about 100 workers because the price of palladium fell sharply in the past year, mine representatives said Thursday. Sibanye-Stillwater announced the layoffs Wednesday at the only platinum and palladium
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — The national Black Lives Matter organization on Thursday dismissed as an “imposter” an activist who identified himself as a leader of the movement in Rhode Island and declared he was backing Donald Trump for president. “This is a publicity stunt,” Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter Rhode Island
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Bob Iger, pulcramente vestido con un traje gris y camisa blanca planchada, sin corbata, subió al escenario el martes por la tarde en el New Amsterdam Theatre de la ciudad de Nueva York, saludando a una ansiosa multitud de empleados de Disney reunidos para su tan esperada aparición. El director ejecutivo, un
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State running back Damien Martinez was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants, a misdemeanor, Corvallis police said. Martinez was also accused of reckless driving and reckless endangerment, and he was cited for being a minor in possession of marijuana, the police said. Martinez, 19, ran a
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Famed pop-rock duo Daryl Hall and John Oates of Hall & Oates are in the midst of a legal battle, and new accusations are coming to light. In new legal documents filed on Wednesday and obtained by CNN, Hall accuses Oates of engaging in “the ultimate
Continue ReadingSarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Over 26 years after a woman’s body was discovered buried beneath a pile of rocks in rural Nevada, authorities have announced her identity. On Friday, the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office said 41-year-old Lorena Gayle Mosley was the woman whose body was found by rock climbers on June 9,
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for the billionaire Haslam family has called the bribery allegations from Warren Buffett’s company a “wild invention.” But a judge didn’t decide immediately whether those allegations will be resolved at a January trial that will help determine the multibillion-dollar price Berkshire Hathaway might
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