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Month: July 2024

Radio host who interviewed Biden leaves station after admitting campaign aides gave her pre-selected questions

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders has resigned from WURD Radio after admitting her post-debate interview with President Joe Biden included questions that were pre-selected by Biden’s campaign team, the station told CNN Sunday. “The interview featured pre-determined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of

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Heat wave persists

The upper-level ridge is moving very slowly eastward which means we will have to bear a few more days in the triple digits; I’m not expecting us to break the trend and drop below 100 until Wednesday or Thursday. Tuesday will be our hottest day with temperatures at or above 105 in Bend, Redmond, Prineville,

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A court rules that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through Ecuador’s capital

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A court in Ecuador has ruled that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through the capital, Quito. The city government appealed the unusual ruling, which is based on an article of Ecuador’s Constitution that recognizes the rights of natural features like the Machángara River. Activists who filed

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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff tests positive for Covid-19; Harris is negative

By Priscilla Alvarez, Aileen Graef and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff tested positive for Covid-19 Saturday after experiencing mild symptoms, according to a Sunday statement from his office. Vice President Kamala Harris has tested negative for the virus and remains asymptomatic, Emhoff communications director Liza Acevedo said in the statement. The

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A weakened West Africa bloc asks Senegalese leader to try to convince breakaway states to return

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s divided regional bloc has asked Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states to try to reunite the region whose stability has been under threat following their decision to leave the group in January. At its summit in Nigeria’s

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