Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky. Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate religion into classrooms,
Continue ReadingAP Soccer Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jonathan Rodríguez scored in stoppage time to give the Portland Timbers a 3-2 come-from-behind win over Minnesota United on Saturday night. Santi Moreno and Evander also scored for the Timbers (8-7-6), who are undefeated in seven straight games. Minnesota (8-7-5) got goals from Bongokuhle Hlongwane and Jeong Sang-Bin
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN Vettelschloss, Germany (CNN) — Rolling hills, thick forests and the Rhine River whirling through it all – the region of Rheinland-Pfalz, or Rhineland-Palatinate, is textbook Germany. Nearby Bonn was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990, and before that, the Romantic movement descended on the castles and wooded landscapes
Continue ReadingAsisat Oshoala scored on a penalty in the 76th minute and Bay FC beat Racing Louisville 1-0 on Saturday in the National Women’s Soccer League. Bay FC’s Jordan Bagget fouled Princess Marfo in the box at Lynn Family Stadium and a penalty shot was awarded after a video review. Oshoala scored her third goal of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Beginning Monday, a California law will require credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun stores in order to track their sales. But new laws will do the exact opposite in Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Wyoming by banning the use of
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid, Sara Tonks, Melissa Alonso and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, intensified to an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph Sunday, as it made its way toward the Windward Islands. Beryl is now the earliest Category 4 hurricane
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has an affordable housing problem. The government plans to build 250,000 houses each year, with the aim of eventually closing a housing deficit that World Bank data puts at 2 million units. But experts say construction and financing need to change and speed up for the housing deficit
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Raven Saunders wore a gold nose ring and had gold grills covering their upper and lower teeth. They even painted their nails gold for the occasion. Sensing a theme? Saunders, the shot put standout who wears a mask at competitions and identifies with the pronouns they/them, is chasing
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer Usher accepted the lifetime achievement award at the 2024 BET Awards — even if the superstar mused it might be a bit early. The Grammy winner stayed on his feet as a parade of artists performed his hits — Childish Gambino kicked it off with “U Don’t Have to Call,” joined by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — As Florida’s ban on “lab-grown” meat is set to go into effect, one manufacturer hosted a last hurrah with a cultivated meat-tasting party in Miami. California-based Upside Foods hosted dozens of guests Thursday evening at a rooftop reception. CEO and founder Uma Valeti believes people should have a choice to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — The far-right National Rally leaped into a strong lead Sunday in France’s first round of legislative elections, polling agencies projected, bringing the party closer to being able to form a government in round two and dealing a major slap to centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his risky decision to call
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Eleven people were injured at American Family Field in Milwaukee Saturday when an escalator malfunctioned following the Brewers baseball game against the Chicago Cubs. The escalator was moving fans from the Terrace to Loge Level of the stadium when it malfunctioned, “resulting in an increased downward
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A week after the fast-growing Darlene 3 Fire forced hundreds of La Pine-area residents to evacuate their homes, the blaze held by crews at just under 4,000 acres reached official full containment Tuesday as all Level 3 GO NOW evacuation levels were dropped.
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Eleven people were injured when an escalator malfunctioned at American Family Field in Milwaukee following the Brewers’ loss to the Chicago Cubs. The issue occurred Saturday. Brewers’ spokesperson Tyler Barnes says six people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and five others were treated at the ballpark. The escalator’s malfunction resulted “in an
Continue ReadingAP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week. DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and
Continue ReadingStory by Jessie Yeung, CNNPhotos by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said. Fifty years later,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JAMMU, India (AP) — The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated by a city of some 740,000 people. But a handful of waste pickers ignore both the fumes
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, Xiaofei Xu and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — France has seen the highest turnout in decades as voting in the first round of snap parliamentary elections neared the end. The election could oust President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance and leave him to see out the remaining three years of his term in
Continue ReadingAP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson got passed on the outside down the stretch and finished fourth in the 200-meter final at U.S. track trials Saturday, meaning she’ll only have one chance for an individual Olympic gold medal next month in Paris. Gabby Thomas won the race in 21.81 seconds for her
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson fails to qualify for Olympic 200 meters with 4th place finish at the U.S. track trials.
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