By Lilit Marcus and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN (CNN) — Lena Bychcova couldn’t really believe it when her North Korean tourist visa came through. Many Russian tourists have found themselves locked out of tourism destinations. But North Korea — as a key Russian ally — offered a rare opportunity to travel. The marketing professional was one
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he intentionally avoided hot-button issues and political conflict in his State of the State address. He called on legislators during his speech Monday to support economic development by funding roads, ports and bridges. He urged them to establish 12
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The U.S. Forest Service won’t have to remove homeless camps in the China Hat Road area south of Bend for this summer’s paving and reconstruction of the road, though later fuels reduction and prescribed burn projects will require some camps’ relocation, the agency said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting that killed two adults and severely wounded two others has stunned a tiny Alaska Native whaling village above the Arctic Circle, where parents were told they could keep their children home from school Tuesday to hug them. A 16-year-old boy has been charged as
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the top prosecutor on the Georgia 2020 election subversion case received an onslaught of harassing phone calls over the weekend after their personal contact information was cited in legal paperwork from Donald Trump’s defense lawyer, sources with
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to lay the foundation to attract nuclear energy projects to a state where coal has fueled the economy for generations. Republican Sen. Danny Carroll says Kentucky should embrace a cross-section of sources — including coal, natural gas and
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions. The squabble between Argentina’s central government with the local provinces started late
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Andy Kim says in a federal lawsuit that New Jersey’s primary ballot design unconstitutionally favors candidates who have the support of political party leaders and should be scrapped. The representative, who’s locked in a primary contest for U.S. Senate against the state’s first lady Tammy Murphy, filed the lawsuit
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley was asked in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past: his 1980 arrest after authorities said they found drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at the Eagles co-founder’s Los Angeles home. Henley was testifying at
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A New York City medical school will be tuition-free for all students from now on thanks to a $1 billion donation from a former professor, the widow of a Wall Street investor. Ruth Gottesman announced the gift and its purpose to students and faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Monday,
Continue ReadingCNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They have discovered it started retreating rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that provides an alarming insight into future
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo Nueva York (CNN) — La Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC, por sus siglas en inglés) presentó este lunes una demanda para bloquear el acuerdo por US$ 25.000 millones entre Kroger y Albertsons, y advirtió que la mayor fusión de supermercados de la historia de Estados Unidos podría llevar a precios más altos, el
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — La nave espacial Odysseus envió nuevas imágenes de la superficie de la Luna, que captó durante su angustioso descenso. El módulo logró un alunizaje suave este jueves, con lo que se convirtió en la primera nave de fabricación estadounidense que realiza esta hazaña desde la era Apolo. Intuitive Machines, la empresa
Continue ReadingCNN By John Fritze, Brian Fung and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court expressed skepticism Monday about state laws in Texas and Florida designed to stop social media giants from throttling conservative views but also suggested that whatever decision emerges may not be the court’s final word on the significant First Amendment questions
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police on Tuesday found the bodies of a couple shot and killed by an ex-boyfriend, who happened to be a police officer, hours after he admitted to killing and hiding them under rocks and debris on a rural property. The remains of former television reporter
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill requiring that public and private schools determine why a fire alarm went off before evacuating children from classrooms. The action in the Senate on Monday next needs the governor’s approval to cement into law the change inspired by a deadly
Continue ReadingA 23-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting two teenagers at a Southern California movie theater during a 2021 showing of “The Forever Purge” has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Joseph Jimenez was found guilty in December of two counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he shot 18-year-old Rylee Goodrich
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With no time to spare in a “short” legislative session, a major step was cleared on a Measure 110 “fix” package Monday as Oregon cities, counties and law enforcement endorsed compromise legislation to recriminalize drug possession but also provide “deflection” programs to divert those charged to treatment programs, when appropriate.
Continue ReadingBy INDIA GRANT Associated Press ON THE MALINCHE VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — On the flanks of a central Mexico volcano, the country’s female mountaineers have chosen a new “Queen of the Mountains,” complete with crown, ice axe and red cape. The tradition that dates to the 1950s came this year at a somber moment for
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Edward Blum, the legal strategist behind the Supreme Court case that dismantled affirmative action in college admissions, has filed a lawsuit against the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino and the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services over an internship program that strives to
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