SPRAGUE RIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new wind-driven wildfire was reported Sunday afternoon about three miles northeast of the Klamath County town of Sprague River and had grown to an estimated 1,200 acres late in the day, threatening homes and prompting an evacuation. About 20 to 30 structures were threatened by the Knot Fire, reported
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed. The female pilot, who was not named in the Navy release, was flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower as part
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s decision to step down as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president opens the door for other contenders to become the Democratic nominee in November. The president has thrown his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, and other prominent Democrats moved quickly to rally around her candidacy, but it’s unclear just how smooth
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has cut key interest rates in a surprise move aimed at injecting pep into the economy, while the ruling Communist Party released a 50-page roadmap addressing long-term challenges. The party’s planning document promises to beef up social welfare such as pensions, improve the tax system and
Continue ReadingAlaska authorities are conducting a search for a missing airplane with three people onboard. The state Department of Public Safety says Alaska State Troopers received a report from the U.S. Coast Guard of a missing plane shortly before 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The single-propeller, 1948 Beach Craft Bonanza was flying near Mount Crillon in Southeast Alaska
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RADFORD, Va. (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance used his first solo campaign rallies Monday to throw fresh barbs at Vice President Kamala Harris a day after President Joe Biden threw the presidential election into upheaval by dropping out and endorsing his second-in-command to lead Democrats against Donald Trump. The Ohio
Continue ReadingAssociated Press President Joe Biden’s abrupt decision to bow out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic candidate against former President Donald Trump caused a political earthquake on Sunday. It also changes the contours of a presidential race — which most voters said they did not want to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party’s nominee against Republican Donald Trump, according to an Associated Press survey, as top Democrats rallied to her in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his bid for reelection. The quick coalescing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past year, the presidential campaign seemed destined to be a monotonous slog featuring two candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who voters didn’t really want. But that all changed on a quiet Sunday afternoon just 107 days before the election. Biden’s decision to drop out
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, Lauren Mascarenhas and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of US flights were canceled Monday as carriers, particularly Delta Air Lines, work to recover four days after a global tech outage caused massive delays and left travelers stranded at airports around the nation. Delta is facing mounting pressure to get passengers back
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A man facing execution in Utah has addressed state officials, asking them to spare him the death penalty and allow him to remain imprisoned for life. The two-day commutation hearing began Monday in Salt Lake City for Taberon Dave Honie. He was found guilty of murder in the death of his girlfriend’s mother
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read made a brief court appearance on Monday to set dates going forward for the high-profile murder case against her involving her Boston police officer boyfriend that ended in a mistrial earlier this month. Read is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris has spent much more of her life as a prosecutor than as a senator or vice president – and that is exactly how she is now going to run against Donald Trump. In sessions that were quietly underway at the Naval Observatory even before Joe Biden’s disastrous debate, Harris and
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — With his retirement fast approaching, Jim Dolan, from the US, felt as though his future was more or less mapped out. He and his wife Som Dolan would build a house in her native country, Thailand, and split their time between the Southeast Asian destination and the States. But
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Thunderstorms moving across Central Oregon Sunday brought lightning that sparked more than 25 fire starts around the region that firefighters were busy responding to Monday, many stopped small but one that quickly grew to about 3,000 acres northeast of Paulina and prompted evacuations and road closures.
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — The Sunday after the June 27 presidential debate, top advisers to Donald Trump went to bed expecting the Democratic handwringing over President Joe Biden’s performance to cool and give way to a fresh cycle of headlines at the start of the new
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — The Sunday after the June 27 presidential debate, top advisers to Donald Trump went to bed expecting the Democratic handwringing over President Joe Biden’s performance to cool and give way to a fresh cycle of headlines at the start of the
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review this month’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Officials said Sunday that the panel members will have extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a review of the planning for and actions taken by the Secret
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos Joe Biden se presentó a la reelección para salvar la democracia. Al final, llegó a la terrible conclusión de que sólo podía hacerlo si él mismo cedía el poder. Biden tomó la decisión de poner fin a su campaña después de estar días aislado en su
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden on Sunday abruptly dropped a lawsuit he filed last month against Fox News over the network’s fictionalized miniseries that he alleged included sexually explicit images of him without consent. Biden dropped the lawsuit just hours after his father, President Joe Biden, announced his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, though it’s not clear if the timing is related. The
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