BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina top-flight club Vélez Sarsfield has suspended four players after a woman accused them of raping her last week. Velez says it suspended goalkeeper Sebastián Sosa, defender Braian Cufré, midfielder José Ignacio Florentín and striker Abiel Osorio after learning that prosecutors had launched an investigation. A sexual-abuse complaint was filed
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — For the past 10 years it has remained one of the modern era’s greatest mysteries. A commercial airliner with a strong safety record carrying 239 people vanishing from the map, spawning a wide variety of competing theories, books and documentaries and leaving the families of those left behind asking
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Cohan, CNN Orlando, FL (CNN) — It’s a crisp and sunny Sunday afternoon in Orlando, Florida – a perfect day to play a round on the more than 1,000 golf courses scattered across the Sunshine State. But Annika Sorenstam, arguably the greatest female golfer of all time, is instead playing a lighthearted putting
Continue ReadingBy Bibek Bhandari, CNN (CNN) — Jack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or rice terraces but its “click farms.” Last year, the British photographer spent a month in the capital Hanoi documenting some of the shadowy enterprises that help clients artificially boost online traffic
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Three people were shot Thursday afternoon in a park in Salem, Oregon, and one of them has died, police said. The Salem Police Department said in a news release that officers were called to the reported shooting near Bush’s Pasture Park at about 1:45 p.m. Officers found three males with gunshot
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Three people were shot Thursday afternoon in a park in Salem, Oregon, and one of them has died, police said. The Salem Police Department said in a news release that officers were called to the reported shooting near Bush’s Pasture Park at about 1:45 p.m. Officers found three males with gunshot
Continue ReadingKABB, CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Friendly reminder that this weekend is the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. Telling you a few days in advance gives you the opportunity to forget it by Sunday morning and wake up in a panic anyway. You’re welcome. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting at her kitchen table in Alabama, Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” and warned of a bleak American future under his presidency in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening. The first-term Alabama Republican,
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers gave final passage Thursday to a campaign finance reform bill that limits the amount of money people and political parties can contribute to candidates, following recent elections that saw wealthy donors inject millions into key state races. Oregon is currently one of roughly a
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, who ended his long-shot Democratic primary challenge to President Joe Biden this week, denied Thursday that his campaign had weakened Biden politically. “I think, to the contrary, I think he did so well in the Democratic primaries that I think he looks awfully strong,” Phillips
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans City Council has voted to change the locks on a coveted city-owned apartment in its latest dispute with Mayor LaToya Cantrell. The mayor’s use of the French Quarter property drew scrutiny and figured in a failed recall effort against Cantrell. The apartment in
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade public officials to take the issue seriously. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she would task 750 members of the National Guard
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill that would allow concealed carry of firearms in schools and government meetings heads to Wyoming’s governor after clearing the state Legislature. What happens next is uncertain because Wyoming governors traditionally don’t say if they plan to sign or veto bills. Gov. Mark Gordon has
Continue ReadingABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — A rare calf born with two faces is continuing to flourish eight days after its birth at a southwest Louisiana farm. Owners of Breaux Farms LLC in Cossinade say the calf is named “Deux Face.” She was still thriving Thursday. Deux Face has four eyes, two mouths, two noses and two
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A US Army sergeant has been charged with leaking classified information to China in exchange for $42,000 after prosecutors said he repeatedly sent sensitive documents about some of the military’s most advanced weapons to a foreign national claiming to live in Hong Kong. Prosecutors said Sergeant Korbein Schultz, who served as
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has proposed a law that threatens life imprisonment for residents who “endanger national security.” The bill unveiled Friday is deepening worries about erosion of the city’s freedoms four years after Beijing imposed a similar law that all but wiped out public
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SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Legislature this week passed the EMS Modernization Act of 2024 (HB 4081), a policy framework more than 20 years in the making that begins to address inefficiencies in Oregon’s emergency medical system, after years of ranking near the bottom in national surveys. “The efficiency with which we respond to time-sensitive emergencies
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised artillery firing drills aimed at boosting combat readiness posture. The drills comes as North Korea vows to take corresponding military steps against the ongoing South Korean-U.S military training that it regards as an invasion rehearsal. The
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer A federal judge has ruled that Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio. The decision that was issued Wednesday threw out the railroad’s claim that the companies that made the chemicals that spilled during the derailment
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, CNN Lisbon, Portugal (CNN) — Afonso Mestre proudly displays the Portugal-shaped pin badge for the Chega party on his green knit sweater, as he greets people on a sunny and crisp morning in Cartaxo, an hour’s drive from the capital, Lisbon. The 20-year-old took time off his bachelor’s degree to be here, campaigning for the man who he believes will change Portugal. “I
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