By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the courtroom where she worked for nearly 25 years to take in an “amazing” sight. The first — and for 12 years, the only — woman on the high court saw three women
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is making history this year in ways that Republicans could hardly have envisioned when the party took control. First, the Republicans voted to oust their speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, in October. On Friday they voted to get rid of one of their own, indicted
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government. The charges against pageant director Karen Celebertti
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Mikey is a 10-year-old Russian tortoise, one of the smaller members of the species, who could live another 50 years. You can meet him at the Humane Society of Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — El soldado ucraniano Serhii está sentado en su cama de hospital en una clínica pública del centro de Ucrania. Tiene pequeños trozos de metralla incrustados en las piernas que los médicos no pueden recuperar. A pesar del dolor, dice sentirse bien. “No puedo creer que ahora esté en el hospital
Continue ReadingBy PAOLA FLORES Associated Press EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — When they first started climbing the Andes peaks, they could hear the ice crunching under their crampons. These days, it’s the sound of melted water running beneath their feet that they mostly listen to as they make their ascents. Dressed in colorful, multilayered skirts, a
Continue ReadingBy Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko, Daria Markina Tarasova, Yulia Kesaieva and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — The eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka is increasingly becoming a flashpoint in the conflict, where fighting remains intense even when the front lines have barely moved for months. Russia appears to have made tactical advances in the outskirts of the embattled
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By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Washington went into what likely was the last Pac-12 Championship living on the edge, and of course the Huskies were going to do it again Friday night. They blew a 17-point lead, watched Oregon go ahead by four and immediately responded with the drive of
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Countries once colonized by empires are striking back on global warming — and they have the pope’s blessing. Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday’s high-level speeches at the U.N. climate summit to press rich industrial countries to share their knowhow
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Chris Austin scored 17 points as Portland beat Wyoming 81-70 on Friday night. Austin also had three steals for the Pilots (5-3). Vasilije Vucinic shot 5 of 7 from the field and 3 for 4 from the line to add 13 points. Alimamy Koroma had 13 points
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Adam Smith on Friday condemned intimidation and violence pushed by political “extremes” after he said his Washington state home was vandalized by activists pushing for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. “Sadly, the extremes on the left and the right have increasingly seen intimidation, and in
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Hace 75 años, después de una guerra civil que dividió el país, Costa Rica tomó una decisión que cambió su rumbo: abolir el ejército. El antiguo Cuartel Bellavista, hoy Museo Nacional, es símbolo de ese giro histórico, que se conmemora cada 1 de diciembre. Sus paredes perforadas por balas
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NewsChannel 21’s Noah Chast is live at Sidelines Sports Bar & Grill in downtown Bend as the Oregon Ducks get a rematch against the Washington Huskies in the Pac-12 Championship in Las Vegas.
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in Hawaii before removal from the ocean waters where the aircraft crashed on Nov. 20. Rear Adm. Kevin Lenox, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 3 who is
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The Marshall Project looks into how a Denver police unit started investigating all shootings like homicides—and why other cities are taking notice.
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Five homeless people were shot in Las Vegas on Friday, one of them fatally, and police were searching for a lone suspect, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 5:30 p.m. near a freeway overpass in the northeastern part of the city, according to Las Vegas police. A police commander initially said
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — Amazon acaba de firmar un acuerdo con su principal competidor, SpaceX, dirigido por Elon Musk, para lanzar satélites con transmisión de Internet, una medida que se produce incluso cuando el fundador de Amazon, Jeff Bezos, persigue sus propios sueños espaciales con su propia compañía de cohetes, Blue Origin, y mientras SpaceX
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — El Congreso de Guatemala aprobó este jueves una resolución que retira la inmunidad a cuatro de los cinco magistrados del Tribunal Supremo Electoral del país. La petición aprobada, impulsada por el Ministerio Público guatemalteco, señala a los magistrados Irma Palencia, Mynor Franco, Gabriel Aguilera y Ranulfo Rojas, y la decisión
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — La Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador aprobó este jueves la designación de Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara para ejercer funciones en la presidencia por los próximos seis meses y sustituir a Nayib Bukele mientras este se dedica a la campaña en busca de la reelección en los comicios del 4
Continue ReadingBy BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska has rejected requests from environmental groups to halt winter construction work for the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope while the groups’ legal fight over the drilling project wages on. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason just last month
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