By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tyler Robertson scored 22 points and sixth-seeded Portland knocked off seventh-seeded Loyola Marymount, 78-70 in a second-round battle in the West Coast Conference Tournament Friday night. The Pilots advance to third-seeded San Francisco in a quarterfinal-round match-up. Robertson had eight rebounds and seven assists for the Pilots
Continue ReadingCNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. More than 100 women were killed in 2023. The term ‘femicide’ – which is
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. More than 100 women were killed in 2023. The term ‘femicide’ – which is typically
Continue ReadingBy Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, two senior administration officials told CNN. The Biden administration was specifically concerned
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Hikers and hunters and anglers aren’t the only folks who’ll find something fun and interesting at this weekend’s Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show. There’s something for just about everyone.
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Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods. Rotting fruit and withered vegetables sit next to hundreds of empty water jugs and propane gas canisters at businesses across the country. Worsening the situation
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in prison, which devastated Kremlin critics and spurred concerns about the safety of other imprisoned dissidents. Putin has
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Moon is an adorable bunny rabbit who will be available for adoption next week at the Humane Society of Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters will elect 230 lawmakers to the National Assembly, the country’s parliament. The lawmakers will then choose a new government. Two moderate parties that have alternated in power for decades — the center-left
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a cleaning person found two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of a vacated apartment. Authorities have detained a man and woman who lived in the apartment and are believed to be the parents. The bottles were about a foot tall and the
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jalen Green had 27 points, including two statement dunks in the third quarter, and the Houston Rockets pulled away to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 123-107 on Friday night. Fred VanVleet added 18 points and 10 assists for the Rockets, who had lost four
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly raped and killed her two other children, including a
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NewsChannel 21 Chief Meteorologist John Carroll was having fun exploring the wide variety of exhibits, vendors and activities at the opening night of this weekend’s Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond, including the traditional trout pond.
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just don’t want to see how much we have to adjust,” Blackhair said while sitting in her home office in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, the only area in Arizona that
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted by police after he recited a poem objecting to Russia’s war in Ukraine. A low-profile woman committed to a psychiatric facility for condemning the invasion on social media. President Vladimir Putin’s
Continue ReadingBy PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center where a 19-year-old Guinean allegedly hanged himself last month. Visiting opposition senators have decried “undignified” conditions for people ordered to leave Italy but awaiting repatriation. Italy’s 10 migrant repatriation centers have long
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 130 years since the first three women were elected to state legislative offices in the U.S., women remain massively underrepresented in state legislatures. In 10 states, women make up less than 25% of their state legislatures, according to Rutgers’ Center for American
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International Women’s Day. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a packed U.N. commemoration Friday
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address the plans for providing aid to Gaza by sea, the Army’s 7th Transportation Brigade and other units were scrambling to pull equipment together. They received their orders before the speech:
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