By JESSICA DONATI and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is named the country’s next president after preliminary results showed that he won the first round outright. His victory came less than two weeks after he was released from prison to launch a campaign. Official
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele anunció este domingo en sus redes sociales la instalación de un cerco de 5 mil soldados y policías en 4 distritos del norte del país para desarticular el accionar de la pandillas. “Hace unos días, hubo dos homicidios en la zona norte
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los informes de incidentes aterradores y a veces trágicos a bordo de aviones se aceleraron este año, llevando a muchos a preguntarse si todavía es seguro volar. Las estadísticas sugieren que los vuelos comerciales siguen siendo la forma más segura de viajar. Pero el primer semestre de este año ha
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Deschutes County’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee is closing in on a decision on which of two finalist sites in the east county to recommend to county commissioners as the location for a new landfill when the longtime Knott Landfill in southeast Bend is finally full to capacity in coming years.
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The winning numbers for Monday’s estimated $800 million Powerball jackpot – which would be one of the largest prizes in the lottery’s history – have been drawn. The numbers are 7, 11, 19, 53 and 68 with a red Powerball of 23. This was the first of two opportunities
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, Homero De la Fuente, Steve Almasy, Dalia Faheid and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Faced with growing attention over a theft and gambling scandal, baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani on Monday adamantly denied betting on any sport or paying a bookie and placed the blame for the improprieties squarely on his former interpreter
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La tumultuosa vida de Donald Trump ha sido sacudida por bancarrotas, escándalos personales, juicios políticos y victorias y derrotas electorales, pero nada se compara con la crisis personal y financiera que enfrenta el una vez y posiblemente futuro presidente esta semana. Trump está luchando para pagar una fianza de alrededor
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on Monday, sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting.
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER and WAYNE PARRY Associated Press A major spring storm is hitting parts of the central United States with heavy snow, rain and high winds. Forecasters say tornadoes could form in the South. Monday’s storm is bringing extreme weather conditions to a broad swath from the Dakotas to the Gulf Coast. Other parts
Continue ReadingBy Robert Shackelford, Elizabeth Wolfe and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — A powerful storm is pummeling parts of the Plains with blizzard conditions as it drops a blanket of snow from Colorado to Minnesota through Tuesday, creating deadly road conditions and threatening widespread power outages. The wide-reaching storm will also fire up severe thunderstorms and
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A court in India’s most populous state has effectively banned Islamic schools by striking down a law governing madrasas, weeks before a nationwide election that could further polarize the world’s largest democracy along religious lines. The Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh on Friday declared the Madrasa
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed on Monday, as investors awaited further indications the Federal Reserve might begin cutting interest rates. Japan’s Nikkei 225 shed 0.7% to 40,619.40, as investors sold shares to lock in profits after the benchmark recently hit record highs. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous. “OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in the background. “I’ll
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials will begin April 15, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday after tearing into the former president’s lawyers for what he said were unfounded claims that the hush-money case had been tainted by prosecutorial
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden visited five cities in a multiday trip last week, former President Donald Trump was hardly seen in public, spending most of his time in South Florida. Trump has held just a single public campaign event since he locked up the
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Monday agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s more than $454 million civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175 million within 10 days. If Trump does, it will stop the clock on
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Welcome to New Jersey, known around the world for Tony Soprano, Turnpike tolls, chemical plants, and … maple syrup? If a university in the southern part of the state has its way, the sticky sweet brown stuff you put on your pancakes might one day
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press The auditorium at Crocus City Hall was about three-quarters full, with the crowd waiting to see Picnic, a band popular since the Soviet days of the early 1980s. But the concert was sold out in the 6,200-seat hall, so some of the audience was still likely getting
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council on Monday issued its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the U.S. angering Israel by abstaining from the vote. Israel responded by canceling a visit to Washington by a high-level delegation in the strongest public clash between the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Beyoncé’s “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” a Amazon Prime docuseries about BTS member J-Hope and “Madu,” a documentary about a Nigerian boy who dreams of being a professional ballet dancer. In time for Easter Sunday, Netflix offers a new docudrama in the faith-based genre with
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