WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish military authorities say that a soldier seriously injured during a training exercise has died. The death raises the death toll to two. A military tracked vehicle ran over two soldiers. One was killed and the other was injured during the drill at a test range in Drawsko Pomorskie in northwestern
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered his country’s main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days. Henry remained in Puerto Rico as of midday Wednesday. He landed in the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Garna Mejia Click here for updates on this story EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (KSL) — On Saturday, thousands of tumbleweeds blew into Eagle Mountain neighborhoods, rolling into yards and blocking streets along the city’s eastern edge. “If a home is buried in tumbleweeds 6 feet deep and there are thousands of them, that’s where the
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s health department has named a physician to address ways to lessen the effects of extreme heat in the arid Southwestern state as the first statewide heat officer in the nation. Dr. Eugene Livar was appointed to the role under Gov. Katie Hobbs’ extreme heat preparedness plan, the Arizona Department of Health
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — A federal judge in Texas said Tuesday that a US Commerce Department agency intended to help minority-owned businesses must offer assistance to all individuals, regardless of race, agreeing with White business owners who claimed that its policies were unconstitutional. The ruling from US District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story DANVILLE, California (KPIX) — In Danville Tuesday, a World War II veteran was honored with a party and presented the key to the city as he celebrated his 104th birthday. The special event for Arthur Larson was held at the Brookdale Diablo Lodge, where he
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The SAT college admissions exam is now entirely online. Rather than filling in a bubble answer sheet with a No. 2 pencil, US test-takers will be using a computer. US test-takers will use the fully digital version of the SAT on Saturday, March 9. Prospective college students are still required
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former college track and field coach has been sentenced to five years in prison for setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick women into sending him nude or semi-nude photos of themselves. Thirty-one-year-old Steve Waithe, of Chicago, pleaded guilty last
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his third State of the Union on Thursday night. It’s one of the year’s biggest pieces of political theater, and it will be carefully scrutinized as he runs for reelection. The speech starts at 9 p.m. ET and will be carried live
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The US government is spending nearly $1 million a month to maintain a luxury superyacht seized from a sanctioned Russian oligarch as part of the Justice Department’s effort to put pressure on the Kremlin. The 348-foot Amadea was one of the first trophies prosecutors claimed as part of a
Continue ReadingBy John Ramos Click here for updates on this story SAN MATEO, California (KPIX) — A woman who worked for Safeway for 22 years had to enter a legal battle with the company to get unemployment after they fired her for stopping a shoplifter. For 22 years, Antoinette Baez worked at the De Anza Boulevard
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dean Phillips is ending his long-shot Democratic primary challenge of President Joe Biden after failing to win a primary contest. The Democratic congressman from Minnesota built his White House bid around calls for a new generation of party leadership while spending freely from his
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a death row inmate convicted of killing two people more than two decades ago. Wednesday’s 4-1 vote clears the way for Michael Dewayne Smith to be executed on April 4. Smith was convicted and sentenced to
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente de Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, respondió este martes a las críticas de su par de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, quien lo acusó el domingo de “ser cómplice” en el conflicto entre Israel y Hamas. “Institucionalmente, estar en la vereda de enfrente de Maduro y de la señora (Delcy) Rodríguez
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips announced Wednesday that he was dropping out of the 2024 Democratic presidential primary and throwing his support behind President Joe Biden. “I ran for Congress in 2018 to resist Donald Trump, I was trapped in the Capitol in 2021 because of Donald Trump, and I
Continue ReadingBy Anthony Bettin Click here for updates on this story BURNSVILLE, Minnesota (WCCO) — A public memorial for three slain Burnsville first responders will be removed Sunday, three weeks after they were killed in a shooting during a standoff, officials said. City officials in Burnsville said they will “begin decommissioning the memorial outside City Hall
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Katie Wilson has been appointed associate dean for student life at Oregon State University – Cascades and will lead strategies and activities that support the engagement and success of undergraduate and graduate students, the Bend school announced Wednesday. She will start on May 17.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Diosdado Cabello, primer vicepresidente del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), anunció este miércoles que la formación política oficialista realizará su congreso el próximo 15 de marzo para “ratificar las propuestas que hagan las bases del partido” y así definir a su candidato rumbo a las elecciones presidenciales pautadas
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Boeing has not turned over important records to investigators probing the door plug blowout on a 737 Max earlier this year, investigators say. That, Boeing signaled Wednesday afternoon, is because there are no records. The records in question are documentation of steps on the assembly line
Continue ReadingBy S.E. Jenkins Click here for updates on this story HEMPHILL COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — A new lawsuit claims a falling utility pole caused the tragic 1 million-acre Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle. A system of different wildfires has torn through the Panhandle scorching over 1.2 million acres over the past week. A
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