BANGKOK (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its July 27, 2023, story about purported bomb threats allegedly aimed to implicate a Chinese family seeking visas to the Netherlands and who then wound up in immigration detention in Thailand instead. Documents shown to AP in 2023 that referred to bomb threats have been disavowed by
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration’s efforts to cancel federal student loan debt for borrowers who enrolled in its new repayment plan took another Republican-led legal hit Thursday. The fate of the program, known as SAVE (Saving on a Valuable Education), is in flux as courts across the country
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Debris from a broken offshore wind turbine has for days been washing up on the Nantucket shore, prompting beach closures and frustrating locals at the peak of the summer season. The massive turbine blade – as long as a football field – was part of the Vineyard Wind farm
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — US stocks sold off broadly Thursday as Wall Street continued to shed tech stocks. The Dow ended the day lower by 533 points, or 1.3%, retreating from a record high reached a day ago. The S&P 500 fell 0.8%. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.7%, extending its losses
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — As Ukraine grows bolder in striking targets deep inside Russia, Moscow has quietly upped the security measures around President Vladmir Putin’s country residence north of Moscow. Satellite images have revealed that several Pantsir-S1 air defense systems have been installed in the vicinity of the presidential residence on Lake Valdai
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The US Secret Service pushed back Thursday against recent criticism from right-wing media personalities and lawmakers blaming female agents for security failures during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. In the wake of the Saturday shooting, some right-wing media figures focused their attention on the female agents
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Astrónomos han detectado un exoplaneta con una órbita muy oblonga que experimenta cambios bruscos de temperatura, y que podría estar convirtiéndose en otro tipo de mundo. El exoplaneta, denominado TIC 241249530 b, orbita alrededor de una estrella situada a unos 1.100 años-luz de la Tierra. La estrella forma parte de
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — La hija del gobernante de Dubai aparentemente anunció su divorcio en las redes sociales, en lo que sería un movimiento poco común para una princesa en Emiratos Árabes Unidos. La cuenta de Instagram de Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, hija del primer ministro de Emiratos Árabes Unidos y
Continue ReadingBy Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — A police officer was attacked and injured in central Paris on Thursday evening, as France ramps up security measures in the capital ahead of the 2024 Olympics. “A police officer was attacked in the eighth arrondissement of Paris while he was responding to a call from officers securing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris in the Champs-Elysees neighborhood. Prosecutors say the assailant was shot and died from his wounds. The attack on Thursday came just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In a story published July 18, 2024, about a Justice Department lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc., The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of an alleged victim and the location of the suspected abuse. The alleged victim was 15 years old, not 11 years old, and the reported abuse happened
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — It was only last month that Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau were dueling for the US Open in the North Carolina sun. Yet, as the duo lumbered around a damp and windy Royal Troon on Thursday, that high-octane shootout might as well have taken place a lifetime ago. Reigning
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Bend business owner and advocate John Heylin has been working around the clock in recent months on his effort to collect citizen petition signatures for a November vote on expanding the number of Deschutes County commissioners from three to five.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — A woman has become the top commander of Canada’s military for the first time. Gen. Jennie Carignan officially took over command of the Canadian Armed Forces in a ceremony at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on Thursday. Carignan was promoted to the rank of general during the change-of-command ceremony
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer After two jetliner crashes killed 346 people, a $2.5 billion settlement that let Boeing avoid criminal prosecution failed to resolve questions about the safety of the aerospace giant’s planes. Federal prosecutors now accuse the company of failing to live up to terms of the 2021 settlement. Boeing has agreed to plead guilty
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing is closer to understanding what went wrong with its astronaut capsule in orbit, now that testing is complete on a spare thruster here on Earth. The Starliner capsule has been docked at the International Space Station since June 6. It should have returned with its NASA
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Due to continued hot weather and extremely dry vegetation, the Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland, and Prineville District Bureau of Land Management will move into Stage 2 public use fire restrictions and Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL) III next Monday, July 22.
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The weekend’s second annual FairWell Festival at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds came to a dramatic close Sunday night, delayed a bit by stormy weather that prompted sending the thousands of attendees indoors to the First Interstate Bank Center for a time.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On each passing anniversary of the deadly 1994 attack against Argentina’s largest Jewish community center, Diana Malamud said she endures a brutal “Groundhog’s Day.” In her version of the Kafkaesque nightmare that traps her in the same day over and over, presidents repeat the same pledges to seek
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge has rejected claims from civil and voting rights organizations that Donald Trump supporters intimidated voters when they went door-to-door searching for fraud following the 2020 election. A bench trial in the case began Monday and was supposed to continue all week. But U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney on Thursday
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