By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans on the committee with broad jurisdiction over national elections have hired at least two former Donald Trump campaign officials involved in the 2020 fake electors scheme as the GOP-led panel gears up to take center stage in an unknown post-election landscape when Congress returns in November. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants in the country after acknowledging his government failed to get the balance right coming out of the pandemic. Trudeau’s Liberal government had targeted bringing in 500,000 new permanent residents in both 2025 and 2026. Trudeau now
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump said Thursday that he would use presidential powers to end Jack Smith’s probe into multiple criminal cases he’s brought against the former president, promising to fire the special counsel who has indicted him on multiple criminal charges. “Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy,” Trump said
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN) — Cuando Estados Unidos subió los aranceles a la mayoría de las mercancías que entraban en el país hace casi un siglo, las consecuencias fueron graves. El comercio mundial se desplomó y las exportaciones estadounidenses se hundieron, al tiempo que otros países tomaban represalias del mismo tipo, agravando una de las
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District will officially reduce the fire danger to LOW and end the 2024 fire season Friday at 12:01 a.m., for lands under their protection and management. The end of fire season is a result of recent wetting rains and an overall cooling trend that
Continue ReadingEssay by Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — Liam Payne’s final moments remain shrouded in uncertainty. Investigators in Buenos Aires believe the 31-year-old musician was alone in his hotel suite when he tragically fell from a third-floor balcony last week, landing in the small courtyard below. While the investigation into the circumstances that contributed to Payne’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats trying to win control of the House on Election Day might have their best chance of flipping a seat in central New York. That’s where a moderate Democrat is facing off against a first-term Republican incumbent in a district former President Donald Trump lost by double digits. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that if he wins the White House, he will fire special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” of taking office. Trump was asked during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt whether he would first pardon himself or terminate Smith to remove the legal cloud
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — US mortgage rates rose again this week, the fourth-straight weekly increase. That rise in borrowing costs has undone some of the relief Americans felt this summer when mortgage rates fell in anticipation of a rate cut from the Federal Reserve as inflation improved. The average rate on a
Continue ReadingBy Auzinea Bacon, CNN New York (CNN) — Keurig Dr Pepper will expand its energy drink business by acquiring the brand Ghost for more than $1 billion. The range of Ghost’s energy drink flavors, in partnership with sweet brands like Sour Patch Kids and Oreo, sets Keurig up to appeal to a younger audience, the
Continue ReadingBy Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — Within a year of dating, 31-year-old Siara Rouzer crossed a major relationship milestone. The guy she was seeing was no longer a boyfriend but her partner. Rouzer said the title change was more than semantics to them. It symbolized their equal commitment to building a life together. People in the
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Between June and August of this year, Harcourts The Garner Group in Bend helped 79 families become homeowners. They have recorded 153 sales for the year to date, an increase from 144 during the same period last year.
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court has reported Mongolia to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin when he visited the Asian nation last month. Putin’s visit was his first to a member state of the court since it issued an arrest
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The undead, Medieval-themed suburban restaurants, the mall. Druidism, decapitated chickens, rebirth. Church, sheep slaughter, science fiction. These are a few, not all, of the topics touched upon on the Pixies’ 10th studio album, “The Night the Zombies Came.” It’s a 13-track kaleidoscopic collection of songs that veer from
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Hay un lugar en la costa desde donde Azamat Sarsenbayev solía saltar al mar Caspio, de color azul verdoso y salobre. Solo una década después, ahora da a un terreno desnudo y pedregoso que se extiende hacia el horizonte. El agua se ha retirado rápidamente de la ciudad costera de Aktau
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will lead his Liberal Party into the next election, dismissing a request by some party members to not run for a fourth term. Trudeau met with his Liberal members of Parliament for three hours Wednesday, where he learned that more than 20 signed a
Continue ReadingSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Two former Penn State football players facing felony rape charges are free on bond while they await their next hearing. Kaveion Keys and Jameial Lyons, both 19, are accused of raping a 17-year-old Penn State student at their on-campus apartment in early July. According to the criminal complaint, a second
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it acted quickly earlier this month to thwart an attempt to flood the state’s absentee voter portal in an apparent attempt to crash the site. The attack was limited to that part of the state’s website, which voters use to request an absentee
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced that they were ending his money laundering trial on health and diplomatic grounds. Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, was freed on humanitarian parole and was returning to the
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer From Boar’s Head deli meat and waffles to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, this year’s illness outbreaks — some deadly — and food recalls may have Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply. But experts say it’s business as usual when it comes to the complicated task of keeping
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