Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Estados Unidos está estudiando posibles lanzamientos aéreos de ayuda a Gaza a medida que la crisis humanitaria se profundiza y la asistencia no llega a la gente en Gaza devastada por la guerra, dijeron dos funcionarios estadounidenses a CNN este miércoles. Los funcionarios estadounidenses dijeron constantemente que se debe hacer mucho
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As South Korea’s government made a last plea for junior doctors to end a walkout hours before a Thursday deadline, many were expected to defy orders to return to work, risking suspensions of medical licenses and prosecution. Thousands of medical interns and
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The biggest day of this year’s primary campaign is approaching. Sixteen states vote in contests known as Super Tuesday. The election promises to provide all sorts of clues to political junkies about the presidential race in November. Will Donald Trump keep rolling? Will Nikki Haley give in to pressure to
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The winner of the elementary school (K-5) Deschutes County “I Voted” Sticker Contest is Ivy Sapp, a second-grader from Lava Ridge Elementary. Congratulations, Ivy! Deschutes County employees voted to determine the winner. To view all the K-5 submissions, please click here. Middle-high school (6-12) sticker design submissions will be accepted through the
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER AND OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The most powerful Pacific storm of the season started barreling into the Sierra Nevada on Thursday, packing multiple feet of snow and dangerous winds that forecasters say will create blizzard conditions likely to close major highways and trigger power outages into the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El mes pasado, cuando el bitcoin se acercaba a los US$ 45.000, el director ejecutivo de JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, comparó la criptomoneda con un juguete Pet Rock y dijo que la gente debía “dejar de hablar de esa m…”. Ahora, los inversores en bitcoin se están riendo a carcajadas.
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — European consumer rights groups have accused Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of carrying out a “massive” and “illegal” operation of collecting data from hundreds of millions of users in the region. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), an umbrella body for 45 consumer groups, said eight of
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press STINNETT, Texas (AP) — A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle has become the largest in state history. Authorities say the Smokehouse Creek fire grew Thursday to nearly 1,700 square miles of scorched rural ranchlands and destroyed homes. The fire has merged with another blaze and is
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of Republicans are competing for five of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats on Super Tuesday. There’s a good chance in the red state that several will be sent to Washington after the November election. Some turnover can be attributed to redistricting. The Republican-controlled General
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faced pointed bipartisan criticism at a congressional hearing Thursday for his failure to promptly notify President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders about his hospital stay last month. Republicans demanded to know why no one has been disciplined. Members of the House
Continue ReadingBy NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A shop in Iran’s capital has been offering consumers in the Islamic Republic one of the hottest products in the country — an iPhone that came out in 2021. But instead of getting their hands on the handsets, police and prosecutors in Iran allege that customers
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — The White House is formally calling on Fox News to walk back its coverage of bribery and corruption allegations against President Joe Biden. In a letter sent to the right-wing network’s top brass this week, which has not been previously reported, Ian Sams, a top White House spokesperson, noted that the ex-FBI informant who
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border and tussled from a distance over who is to blame for the nation’s broken
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Between bridge and tunnel tolls and parking fees, it can already cost a mint to drive a car into Manhattan. Is forking over another $15 enough to get people out of their cars and onto mass transit? That’s the hope among some New York officials. The
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through which they could end his
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press FRITCH, Texas. (AP) — The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community. Residents in and around Fritch and other rural towns fled
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Democrats are
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Near Orikhiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Pixelated in the thermal drone imagery, the quad bike races down a dirt track, its destination unclear. It swerves and is hit by a grenade, dropped from a Ukrainian drone. Russian soldiers appear to stagger away from it, one rolling. The imagery, supplied
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — American administration and intelligence officials are concerned that Israel is planning a ground incursion into Lebanon that could be launched in the late spring or early summer if diplomatic efforts fail to push Hezbollah back from the northern border with Israel, senior administrations officials and officials familiar with the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has renewed his apology and vowed to hold no more fundraising events himself during his leadership as he appeared at a political ethics committee at Parliament in a bid to showcase his leadership. Kishida is struggling to survive his governing party’s
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