KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Asian Football Confederation says an upcoming World Cup qualifying game won’t take place in Iran because of escalating tensions in the region. The AFC switched the venue for the Oct. 15 soccer game between Iran and Qatar from the Iranian city of Mashhad to Dubai in the United Arab
Continue ReadingBy Allie Torgan, CNN Abilene, Texas (CNN) — The marching orders were clear. In 1996, Master Sergeant Gordon Storey was tasked with launching and leading a volunteer program on Dyess Air Force Base. He and fellow airmen would paint and repair homes for local community residents. Storey, who at the time was a very young
Continue ReadingCNN By Allie Torgan, CNN Abilene, Texas (CNN) — The marching orders were clear. In 1996, Master Sergeant Gordon Storey was tasked with launching and leading a volunteer program on Dyess Air Force Base. He and fellow airmen would paint and repair homes for local community residents. Storey, who at the time was a very
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it’s important that allies’ aid to Ukraine doesn’t decrease next year. He received a pledge of a new weapons package from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Friday on a European tour meant to win backing for his “victory plan” aimed at ending the war with Russia. Zelenskyy
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan on Friday reported that its net income fell 2% in the third quarter as the bank had to set aside more money to cover bad loans. Net income fell to $12.9 billion from $13.2 billion in the year-ago quarter. However, the New York bank’s earnings per share
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — It was an emotional night for Greece at Wembley Stadium on Thursday as the country’s football team paid tribute to teammate George Baldock, who was recently found dead in a swimming pool at his home in Athens. Greece recorded the first win over England in the national team’s history, as
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Updating LinkedIn with a new job role is a rite of passage for many professionals, a chance to let the world know you’ve scrambled up another rung on the career ladder. But former FTX executive Ryan Salame made an unorthodox update to his profile on the site Thursday, as
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Relatives of passengers who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes came to a federal court in Texas on Friday to listen as their lawyers asked a judge to throw out a plea agreement that the aircraft manufacturer struck with prosecutors and put the company
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — The New York Yankees clinched an American League Championship Series (ALCS) spot on Thursday night with a 3-1 win over the Kansas City Royals which saw them take the American League Division Series (ALDS) by the same score. Starter Gerrit Cole was the game’s dominant force, giving up just
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three on Friday, Lebanon’s military said, just hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two of them for the second day in a row. The incidents entangling both Lebanon’s official army —
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — Italian government has formally opened two centers in Albania where it plans to process male migrants intercepted in international waters. Italian Embassy officials say is not clear yet when the first migrants will arrive. Under a five-year agreement signed last November, up to 3,000 migrants picked up by the
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The air quality has cleared up nicely for the weekend! Our Air Quality Advisory over Deschutes County is set to expire today and we’ll see good to moderate air quality, which is acceptable.We had nice, crisp, near normal temperatures yesterday but a ridge of high pressure is building over our region again and will keep
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The leaders of Kenya and Haiti are urging international partners to honor their commitment to the U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti, saying the mission needs more resources and that its budget will run out in March 2025. Kenya, which leads the mission to quell gang violence in the Caribbean
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate. Hinton doesn’t work at Google anymore. Nor did the longtime professor at the University of Toronto do his pioneering research at the tech giant. But his impromptu
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Selling baggy jeans isn’t enough to win over Gen Z. Urban Outfitters, the young adult retailer known for its alternative, vintage-inspired styles, learned this the hard way. During its most recent earnings call, the company candidly admitted it didn’t know how to market to the demographic that
Continue ReadingAP Soccer Writer George Baldock, the Greece international soccer player who was found dead at his home in Athens on Wednesday, drowned while swimming in his pool, his family said. Greek police said this week there was no initial indication the death of the 31-year-old former Premier League player was suspicious. The family said the
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy and Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — A United Nations inquiry has accused Israel of carrying out a “concerted policy” of destroying the health care system in Gaza during its year-long conflict with Hamas in attacks it said amount to war crimes. Israel’s actions in the besieged Palestinian enclave “constitute the war crimes of willful killing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) — The leaders of nine southern European Union countries on Friday pledged support for Lebanon’s armed forces to reassert control over the country’s southern territory in hopes of bringing peace to an area plagued by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. In a joint declaration Friday, the leaders of the so-called
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a fire broke out in the engine room of an oil tanker off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast and all seven crew members were rescued. The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service says it was alerted to the fire on the German-flagged vessel, the Annika, on Friday morning. The tanker
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Ludman Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (LAPost.com) — Los Angeles fast-food cooks and cashiers rallied Tuesday at a Subway in Eagle Rock to show support for Eva Rodriguez, an employee at the sandwich shop. Rodriguez filed a lawsuit and an administrative complaint against Subway alleging wage theft “through years
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