Most resorts only saw an inch of snow over the past 24 hours. A weak front is moving onshore in Washington and Oregon bringing precipitation mainly to the Cascades tomorrow. Expect a passing rain or snow shower in the mountains.
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Happy Friday Central Oregon! Freezing temperatures will be a factor in some areas before sunrise and into the morning making icy conditions likely on roadways during your commute. Fog and freezing fog are also possible, though nothing widespread has been reported yet. A dusting of snow will be possible through the early morning hours across
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Farmers in Italy, Spain and Poland are demonstrating as part of ongoing protests against European Union farming policies and to demand measures to combat production cost hikes, reduced profits and unfair competition from non-EU countries. The actions follow similar ones in other EU member nations in recent weeks
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is announcing an investment of $5 billion in a public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips. The announcement of the chip investment came Friday. The National Semiconductor Technology Center is being funded through the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.
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Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Tuning into the Super Bowl used to be easy — flick on the TV and find the broadcast channel or channels it was airing on. It’s still that way, but for cord-cutters that don’t have a TV package or antenna, it’s a little more complicated. This year,
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — After Ben Affleck appeared as a Dunkin’ drive-thru worker in a Super Bowl commercial last year, the breakfast chain’s sales exploded. “They sold more donuts the next day than any other day in their history,” an individual close to the Dunkin’ Super Bowl campaign told CNN. “That
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Varlin Higbee traveled more than two hours from his Lincoln County, Nevada, home to see Donald Trump in person last month, but when he arrived at the former president’s Las Vegas rally, he was stopped at the door. Despite carrying a VIP invite from the Trump campaign, Higbee, the
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Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Cristóbal del Solar wrote his name into the history books on Thursday, as the Chilean golfer shot a 13-under 57 at the Astara Golf Championship to set the new record for the lowest round ever shot at a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. The 30-year-old Florida State alumni shot two eagles
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Seiji Ozawa, the Japanese conductor who amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died, his management office said Friday. He was 88. The internationally acclaimed maestro, with his trademark mop of salt-and-pepper hair,
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Un grupo de diputados oficialistas presentó un proyecto de ley para derogar la legalización del derecho al aborto en Argentina, también conocida como Ley IVE (Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo). Desde la Casa Rosada, el vocero presidencial desligó al presidente Milei de esta iniciativa: “No es parte de la agenda
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The Irish women’s national basketball team refused to shake hands with the Israeli women’s national team ahead of the first game of the 2025 Women’s EuroBasket qualifier in Riga, Latvia, on Thursday. Basketball Ireland, the governing body of the sport for Ireland, said in a statement that it told FIBA
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — A happier life after getting married may not just be in fairy tales. It’s in the data, too. Adults who are married report being far happier than those in any other relationship status, according to a Gallup Poll published Friday. “Any way you analyze those data, we see a
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has announced that she will retire after the upcoming Summer Games in Paris. In an interview with Essence magazine, the 37-year-old Fraser-Pryce, a dominant force in women’s sprinting ever since she won her first Olympic gold in 2008, said that she is stepping
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government has adopted plans to scrap its current foreign trainee program, which has been criticized as a cover for importing cheap labor, and replace it with a system it says will actually teach skills and safeguard trainees’ rights as Japan desperately seeks more foreign workers
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Adi Koplewitz CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — The deadly Hamas attacks of October 7 united a shocked, grieving Israel behind its leaders, burying at a stroke the divisions that had riven the country for years. Four months into the war and with hopes for a new deal to return Israeli hostages from
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Soon after John Roberts took his seat at the center of the Supreme Court bench on Thursday, the cadence of the justices’ questioning suggested the chief justice would have an easy majority, if not unanimity, to reverse a Colorado ruling that blocked Donald Trump from the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Thrust into an election year that had already been defined in part by voters’ concerns over the president’s age and fitness for office, special counsel Robert Hur’s report amounted to a legal victory but a political landmine for President Joe Biden. The president’s outrage on Thursday night made
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