By Irene Nasser, Mayumi Maruyama and Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 flights to and from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport are expected to be canceled on Wednesday following the fiery runway plane collision the day before, according to two Japanese carriers. The flight cancellations will impact an estimated 20,000 passengers, reports state broadcaster NHK.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Monday night, the #2 Huskies won a close one in the Sugar Bowl against the #3 Texas Longhorns. The Huskies were looking to beat the Longhorns in a bowl game for the second year in a row. QB and Heisman runner-up Michael Penix Jr. made an impact. Penix threw for 430
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have raided the residence and office of a man who stabbed the country’s opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, in the neck this week. The assault occurred when Lee was passing through a throng of journalists after visiting the proposed site
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In 2024, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro could face a more complicated sophomore year in charge of Pennsylvania. He’s facing pressure to respond to a court ruling that Pennsylvania’s system of public school funding unconstitutionally discriminates against poorer districts. Meanwhile, his administration must oversee a presidential election
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — American higher education has long viewed plagiarism as a cardinal sin. Accusations of academic dishonesty have ruined the careers of faculty and undergraduates alike. The latest target is Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned Tuesday. In her case, the outrage came not from
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Community Needs Assessment Survey is a recurring report, completed about every five years to measure the need for parks and recreation services and establish service priorities. With a combination of mail-in and on-line surveys, the assessment yielded over 2,700 community responses. Bend Park & Rec said, key findings from the survey
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Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday a missing La Pine man who left a doctor’s appointment Tuesday morning and didn’t return to the memory care facility where he lives has been found safe in Madras.
Continue ReadingBy HIRO KOMAE, RICHARD COLOMBO and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press SUZU, Japan (AP) — Rescuers in Japan are braving the cold in a race against time as they search for survivors along the country’s western coastline after a powerful earthquake earlier in the week smashed homes and left at least 78 people dead and 51
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has filed to run as a presidential candidate in Utah after meeting the 1,000-signature requirement needed to qualify. Utah is the first state where Kennedy’s campaign submitted signatures and qualified for ballot access. The son of former senator and
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press In summer 1954, the Eisenhower administration launched a military-style effort to remove Mexican immigrants who were in the country illegally. Donald Trump has lauded the raids since he first ran for president. People affected by the raids and historians argue Trump is using fragments of history for political reasons
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM and TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war have disrupted the first day of California’s legislative session. Protesters sang, clapped and unfurled banners in the state Assembly on Wednesday calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Assembly members tried to briefly continue their
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Love it, hate it or yawn at it, Minnesota is set to get a new state flag next spring that echoes its motto of being the North Star State. It’s replacing an old flag that brought up painful memories of conquest and displacement for Native Americans. The
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Almost every U.S. state has cut taxes in some way in the past three years. But that trend may be slowing as many states head into their 2024 legislative sessions with lagging tax revenues. Every state except Alaska and Nevada has enacted either permanent
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza El cubrimiento de este tema ha finalizado. Para ver más información sobre el terremoto de Japón visita CNNEE.com En esta foto se ven construcciones dañadas después de que múltiples terremotos fuertes azotaran el área el 2 de enero de 2024 en Anamizu, Ishikawa, Japón. (Crédito: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images) Fotografía del 2
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A wide variety of community groups are seeking volunteers for their activities on the Jan. 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service through Connect Central Oregon. You can check them out at https://volunteer.connectcentraloregon.org/.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting more state funding. Eleven municipalities in Illinois and Iowa are the only cities in the U.S. so far to have signed agreements with the U.S. Census
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of firing gunshots inside the Colorado Supreme Court building appeared Wednesday in court, where a judge set his bond at $100,000, noting the defendant’s alleged “escalating behavior” during the incident. The shooting happened Tuesday morning after 1 a.m. when a man who fled
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Emiko Jozuka, CNN (CNN) — When Japan Airlines flight 516 touched down at Tokyo’s Haneda airport carrying hundreds of people on Tuesday it erupted into a terrifying fireball. The Airbus A350 passenger plane had collided with a coast guard aircraft on the runway – killing five people – and the crew had just
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery, Junko Ogura and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Nanao, Japan (CNN) — Minae Akiyama had traveled from southern Japan to Ishikawa prefecture to celebrate New Year’s with her family, when the ground began to shake. “Thinking about it now still makes me tremble. My heart was pounding, my mind went blank, we just scrambled,” she
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is confident Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold hostages seized during their bloody Oct. 7, 2023, attack and to house command infrastructure. That’s according to an American intelligence assessment declassified Tuesday and shared by a U.S. official. The assessment
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