By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In four months, the world’s best athletes will be at the Paris Olympics. Yet some competitors say it won’t be truly representative of the global talent as not all countries can afford to give their athletes a fighting chance to get there. Senegal’s top ranked surfer
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SALEM, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — The Oregon Senate voted Thursday morning to approve a pair of bills that tackle the state’s housing crisis. Senate Bill 1530 and Senate Bill 1537 passed 21-7 with bipartisan support, KGW reported. The bills are part of the $376 million Emergency Housing Stability and Production Package, which aims to boost housing production, infrastructure
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A private airplane carrying singer Karol G made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport Thursday evening, a news report said. The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport around 9 p.m. with no immediate reports of injuries, KABC-TV reported. The plane left Hollywood Burbank
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Holly Yan, Joe Sutton and David Williams, CNN (CNN) — As many as 500 structures have already been obliterated as the biggest wildfire in Texas history continues its deadly march across the state’s panhandle. And the devastation is far from over as the inferno is expected to spread more rapidly this weekend,
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher Monday ahead of China’s top annual political gathering, while Japan’s benchmark surpassed the 40,000 level for the first time. U.S. futures fell and oil prices were little changed. Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index advanced 0.5% to 40,150.00, breaching the 40,000 level,
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA and AJIT SOLANKI Associated Press JAMNAGAR, India (AP) — It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he’s expecting billionaires from around the world, heads of state, and Hollywood and Bollywood royalty
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La Policía de Houston emitió una Alerta Amber para una niña de 12 años que ha estado desaparecida desde el 22 de febrero. Un portavoz de la Policía de Houston dijo el miércoles a CNN que, cuando E’minie Hughes desapareció, inicialmente se creyó que se había ido por su cuenta y
Continue ReadingBy VINCENT THIAN and EILEEN NG Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane has arrived in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated at a hospital for an infection. King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report from United Nations experts says paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios, Caitlin Hu, Jim Rogers, Sahar Akbarzai and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Flights at Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti’s capital have been disrupted for the second straight day by heavy gunfire nearby, as the Caribbean nation grapples with surging gang violence and political instability. The US Embassy in Haiti issued a security alert on Friday,
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lambasted North Korea Friday, for what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke on March 1 Independence Movement Day, a holiday marking a 1919 Korean
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Manuel Rocha, el exembajador de EE.UU. en Bolivia acusado de actuar como agente extranjero secreto de Cuba, dijo en la corte este jueves que planea declararse culpable de los cargos, según su expediente judicial. Rocha, de 73 años, está acusado de varios cargos, entre ellos actuar como agente ilegal de
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York was sentenced Friday to more than 25 years to life in prison. Kevin Monahan, 66, was convicted of second-degree murder in the
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A new High Desert Museum exhibit, ‘Sensing Sasquatch,’ a ‘Pint Night for Saving Grace’ and the Mastondon Trail Race – fun weekend options from Isabella Warren. You can find many more and submit your own events at http://events.ktvz.com.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines arts organization is preparing to rip out a roughly 30-year-old artwork that lines a beloved pond in a historic city park, outraging arts advocates nationally and surprising local residents. The New York artist who created the work says she can’t believe the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En el marco del inicio de la temporada de 2024 en el monte Everest, Nepal anunció un nuevo requisito para todos los alpinistas: deberán alquilar y utilizar chips de seguimiento en su viaje. “Las empresas de renombre ya los utilizaban, pero ahora es obligatorio para todos los escaladores”, dijo a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s nothing complicated about the latest tobacco product trending online: Zyn is a tiny pouch filled with nicotine and flavoring. But it has stoked a debate among politicians, parents and pundits that reflects an increasingly complex landscape in which Big Tobacco companies aggressively push alternative products
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER AND STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — California authorities shut down 100 miles of Interstate 80 on Friday as the biggest snow storm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada. Authorities closed the interstate in both directions after 5 p.m. on a day most ski resorts around Lake
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of people lined up to pay respects before the funeral of a nursing student found slain on the University of Georgia campus. A funeral service for 22-year-old Laken Riley was held Friday at Woodstock City Church in suburban Cherokee County north of Atlanta. It was
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