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Month: April 2026

Central Oregon largest private employers 2026

New rankings out: St. Charles still region’s largest private employer, grew workforce by nearly 7% in past year

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Economic Development for Central Oregon released on Thursday the 2026 Central Oregon Largest Employers List, including breakouts of the top employers in each Central Oregon community. The data, collected by EDCO annually for the past 25 years, is the most comprehensive major employer list in Central Oregon. EDCO’s regional list features the largest private employers, including for-profit and non-profit organizations, while

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Vance lidera las conversaciones de paz con Irán. Ahora Trump pregunta a aliados y asesores cómo evalúan su desempeño

Por Kristen Holmes y Kevin Liptak, CNN Con el vicepresidente J. D. Vance, un antiguo escéptico de una guerra con Irán, ahora encargado de negociar un acuerdo para ponerle fin, el presidente Donald Trump ha estado supervisando de cerca su progreso y preguntando a diversos amigos y asesores cómo calificarían su desempeño, según tres personas

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Michael Selig

Trump’s top regulator for prediction markets pledges crackdown on insider trading

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The top federal regulator for the rapidly growing prediction market industry vowed Thursday to crack down on insider trading, and said his agency is actively investigating hundreds of possible cases. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Michael Selig, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, tried to allay rising

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Chiloquin Elementary School

Redmond, other Oregon school leaders call for funding formula changes after federal poverty data leads to cuts

By Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM, Ore. — The head of Salem-Keizer Public Schools spent nearly a year painstakingly holding meetings and restructuring staffing plans to close a $23 million budget deficit for the next school year. By early February, Superintendent Andrea Castañeda shared the plans publicly with staff and media, describing it at

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the socialist character of the Cuban revolution in Havana

Cuban leader, marking Bay of Pigs anniversary, vows to defeat US forces if attacked again

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Cuba’s president says his nation does not want war with the United States, but he vows that, if attacked, Cubans would defeat American forces. Dressed in military fatigues, Miguel Díaz-Canel addressed a crowd of government supporters commemorating the 65th anniversary Thursday of the start of the US-backed

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Liberan bajo fianza a Ezequiel Véliz, el médico venezolano que fue detenido por agentes de inmigración en el sur de Texas

Por Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español El médico venezolano Ezequiel Véliz, que fue detenido hace una semana por agentes de inmigración en el sur de Texas, fue liberado bajo fianza este jueves, dijo su familia a CNN. “Logramos pasar el puesto de control”, dijo su esposo Joseph Williams, ciudadano estadounidense, tras pagar la fianza por

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Dr. Erica Schwartz is being nominated to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Public health veteran is Trump’s pick to lead CDC as administration shifts tone on vaccines

By Sarah Owermohle, Brenda Goodman, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a public health veteran who has led vaccination programs, a new sign of the administration’s shifting views on vaccines. Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination to lead the embattled agency came

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Trump no puede decir que el salón de baile de la Casa Blanca responde a motivos de seguridad nacional, dice juez

Por Devan Cole, CNN Un juez federal ha ordenado nuevamente al presidente Donald Trump que suspenda la construcción de un nuevo y gigante salón de baile en la Casa Blanca, al rechazar el intento “poco sincero” del mandatario de eludir una resolución anterior argumentando que el proyecto debía continuar por razones de seguridad nacional. El

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