By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has found itself locked in a battle with Republican Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration over who is in charge of making sure state agencies follow the law. The tug of war began last year when state Attorney General Mike Hilgers wrote an opinion
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid severance payments. Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict. The verdict for Ruby Johnson announced Monday came in a lawsuit brought under a new Colorado law
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, continued proposing ways to overturn the 2020 presidential election even after the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, according to texts and emails made public Monday as part of a lawsuit. The
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By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Russell Wilson’s short and disappointing stay in Denver will come to an end when the Broncos release the 35-year-old quarterback March 13 at the start of the NFL year, the team announced Monday. General manager George Paton and head coach Sean Payton said the decision will help the team
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El portavoz de la presidencia de Argentina, Manuel Adorni, aseguró este lunes en conferencia de prensa que esta semana darán a conocer el plan de cierre de la agencia estatal de noticias Télam, en cumplimiento a una medida que el presidente Javier Milei había adelantado como una de sus primeras decisiones.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A traveling photographic exhibit of Oregon women military veterans, created by the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs, is being hosted by three of Central Oregon Community College’s campuses during the month of March. The exhibit is in recognition of women veterans, Women’s History Month and a forthcoming proclamation by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek to
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some guns will be banned at voting locations, and the waiting period for purchasing firearms is being extended to seven days under measures signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The second-term Democrat visited a school Monday in Albuquerque where she signed four public safety measures that were passed by
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Two years ago, Russell Wilson exuberantly declared he intended to play a dozen years in Denver and double the trio of Lombardi Trophies in the Broncos’ lobby. General manager George Paton was equally dizzy, thrilled to send four premium draft picks and three players
Continue ReadingCLOQUET, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say the man who fatally shot a Super 8 hotel clerk and a guest in a small Minnesota town doesn’t appear to have had any connection with the victims. Cloquet Police said Monday that it doesn’t appear that 32-year-old Nicholas Elliot Lenius, of Ramsey, knew either of the people he
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los pueblos de montaña y las estaciones de esquí de California se recuperan después de que una tormenta de nieve los enterró a ellos y a las principales carreteras bajo metros de nieve. La tormenta azotó las montañas de California durante varios días antes de concluir el lunes. Las
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — El fiscal a cargo de la investigación del secuestro y homicidio del exmilitar venezolano Ronald Ojeda, Héctor Barros, dijo el lunes que el exoficial falleció por asfixia que se realizó “con un elemento de tracción”. Quién era Ronald Ojeda, el exmilitar venezolano secuestrado y asesinado en Chile “Por ahora hay solamente
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have invited the prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 11. The leaders in their invitation say the relationship between the U.S. and Japan has proven to be a force for good and a catalyst for prosperity.
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-dominated Kentucky House has voted to remove any role for the state’s Democratic governor in deciding who would occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The legislation calls for a special election to
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says 11 people were hurt over the weekend while trying to climb over a wall that separates Mexico and the United States and falling on the San Diego side. Ten of those who were hurt were taken to a hospital. They were the latest such injuries
Continue ReadingBy ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in large numbers, officials in Colombia said on Monday, after being stranded for much of last week in a small town along the country’s Caribbean coast due to a work stoppage
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon House on Monday passed Senate Bills 1530 and 1537, key pieces of Gov. Tina Kotek’s $376 million Emergency Housing Stability and Production Package, sending them to her desk as her top priority and the only legislation she proposed for this short legislative session. The investment and related policy doubles down
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a civilian U.S. Air Force employee has been charged in federal court in Nebraska with transmitting classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform. David Franklin Slater was arrested Saturday on charges of illegally disclosing national defense information and conspiring to do so.
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would install requirements for funeral home directors after nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a funeral home in September. Another bill expected to be introduced would require routine inspections of facilities. Both bills would overhaul
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Trenton’s Law (HB 4103), legislation that updates definitions of electric-assisted bicycles in the Oregon Vehicle Code, passed the Oregon Senate 28-2 Monday, carried by Bend state Senator Tim Knopp, and now goes to Gov. Tina Kotek’s desk for her signature.
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