After several days spent notifying family members, Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollock late Thursday released the names of an Idaho couple killed Sunday when their small plane traveling from an airport south of Portland to Idaho crashed southeast of Madras.
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power almost 25 years ago and since then he’s eliminated nearly all independent media — a process he ramped up after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin’s control over media is now absolute. State television channels cheer every battlefield victory,
Continue ReadingBy ALEX BABENKO, HANNA ARHIROVA, SUSIE BLANN and LORI HINNANT Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — One Ukrainian brigade had defended the same block of industrial buildings for months without a break. Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired but with no replacements to relieve them. Ammunition
Continue ReadingBy ALEX BABENKO, HANNA ARHIROVA, SUSIE BLANN and LORI HINNANT Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — One Ukrainian brigade had defended the same block of industrial buildings for months without a break. Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired but with no replacements to relieve them. Ammunition
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s consumer inflation turned positive for the first time in six months, largely supported by the Lunar New Year holiday, when a spending boom pushed up prices. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.7% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Saturday, versus
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — An awards ceremony curveball indeed: Emma Stone, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in “Poor Things,” dealt with a sartorial snafu just moments before she took the stage to accept her trophy. “My dress is broken,” Stone appeared to mouth while en route to receive
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Jack Latham tenía la misión de fotografiar granjas en Vietnam: no las extensas plantaciones o terrazas de arroz del país, sino sus “granjas de clics”. El año pasado, el fotógrafo británico pasó un mes en la capital, Hanoi, documentando algunas de las oscuras empresas que ayudan a sus clientes a aumentar artificialmente
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — There was little mention of politics at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, but there were multiple calls for global peace. Upon winning the Academy Award for best international feature for the Auschwitz-set drama “The Zone of Interest,” filmmaker Jonathan Glazer said in his acceptance speech, “Our film shows where dehumanization leads,
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need. Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s national legislature wrapped up its annual session Monday with the usual show of near-unanimous support for plans designed to carry out ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s vision for the nation. The weeklong event, replete with meetings carefully scripted to allow no surprises,
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from online sports betting this decade, thanks to a compact between the tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press Pranay Karkale is spending years of savings and $60,000 in student loans to pursue a master’s degree in the United States, yet he considers himself lucky. At home in India, it’s common to hear about families selling off their land to send children to universities overseas. Karkale
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A center-right coalition won a narrow victory in Portugal’s snap elections on Sunday but fell short of an outright majority, as fledgling radical right party Chega took nearly a fifth of the vote. The Democratic Alliance coalition won 29.5% of the 98.98% of votes counted early Monday, with
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jack Lobel is a college sophomore who will be voting in his first presidential election this fall, casting a ballot for Joe Biden. At 19, he’s six-plus decades Biden’s junior, which isn’t lost on him. But Lobel is spokesperson for Voters of Tomorrow, one of 15 youth
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press Disney is seeking approval from local officials to expand its California theme park offerings over the next four decades. The proposal wouldn’t increase the company’s geographic footprint in Anaheim, but would allow for new attractions on unused spaces, including a large parking lot. Disney officials say there isn’t room to
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Oscars host and late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday called out former President Donald Trump on stage after Trump insulted Kimmel and his hosting on social media. “I was told we have like an extra minute, and I’m really proud of something and I was wondering if I
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Stephen Hu, Collin McCullough and Helen Regan, CNN Dajabon, Dominican Republic (CNN) — The United States and other diplomatic missions have begun evacuating personnel from Haiti, as gang violence in the Caribbean nation’s capital Port-au-Prince continues to spiral. One evacuation operation carrying staffers from the German and European missions was forced to turn down
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Varias agencias de noticias importantes han retirado una imagen distribuida por el Palacio de Kensington que muestra a Kate, princesa de Gales, y sus hijos, diciendo que creen que la foto ha sido manipulada. La fotografía es la primera imagen oficialmente publicada de la princesa desde que se sometió a
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The protest-vote movement over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war has spread to several states and raised more questions about whether a small but significant number of Democrats angry at Biden might abandon him in November. A week after 101,000 Michigan voters chose “uncommitted”
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from Justin Timberlake and Kacey Musgraves, the launch of season 20 of “Grey’s Anatomy” and Taylor Swift’s concert film “The Eras Tour” landing on Disney+. The comedy “Girls5Eva” has jumped from Peacock to Netflix for its third season, Nicolas Cage appears in people’s
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