Consumers get online tool to check nursing home vaccine data
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare says families and patients have a new online tool to compare COVID-19…
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Qatar’s ruler urges world leaders not to boycott Taliban
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruling emir of Qatar has urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations…
Continue ReadingNew Orleans: Flames shoot up side of Superdome roof, put out
By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome’s roof after a pressure washer being…
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The Roundhouse Foundation gives $30,000 to support COCC career, technical students
Welding tools, fire boots and teaching supplies are just a few of the essential non-tuition expenses connected to studies in Central Oregon Community…
Continue ReadingGyllenhaal, Fuqua on the van that made ‘The Guilty’ possible
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus has forced Hollywood to adapt in countless ways to keep productions running through…
Continue ReadingNATO leader: Allies need to stand together amid sub flap
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — NATO’s leader is suggesting that members need to focus on “the big picture” and…
Continue ReadingActivision confirms SEC probe into discrimination allegation
By TALI ARBEL Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s most high-profile video game companies, has confirmed a regulatory probe and said it is…
Continue ReadingReport: Births decline in pandemic may have turned corner
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have…
Continue ReadingUK minister sorry over Afghan interpreters’ data breach
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense minister has apologized and his ministry has suspended an official after a “significant” data breach…
Continue ReadingRutgers suspends 2 football players after paintball shooting
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Two Rutgers players have been suspended from the football team after they were charged in an incident in which three people…
Continue ReadingIn ‘This is the Night,’ a love letter to cinema, ‘Rocky III’
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmaker James DeMonaco remembers the day “Rocky III” hit theaters as if it were yesterday. On Staten Island in…
Continue ReadingJudge begins key hearing on Boy Scouts bankruptcy plan
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has begun a key hearing that could determine whether the Boy Scouts of…
Continue ReadingKremlin’s party gets 324 of 450 seats in Russian parliament
By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Election authorities announced Russia’s ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next…
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Central Oregon jobs report: Hiring moves higher in August, unemployment rates decline
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon’s employment situation improved in August, with hiring exceeding normal seasonal expectation by a modest…
Continue ReadingNo charges for police who shot anti-fascist Portland suspect
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against police who shot and killed an antifascist…
Continue ReadingNo charges for police who shot anti-fascist Portland suspect
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against police who shot and killed an antifascist…
Continue ReadingA Texas couple wore face masks at a restaurant to protect their immunocompromised infant. The owner asked them to leave
CNN, KTVT By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Texas couple who landed themselves a rare night out with friends says it was cut short when the restaurant…
Continue ReadingAfghanistan girls soccer team given asylum in Portugal
By ALEX SANZ Associated Press For weeks, the Afghanistan national girls soccer team had been waiting for word they could leave. On Sunday, the…
Continue ReadingOregon to charge out-of-state RV campers 25% more
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will charge campers from outside the state a 25% surcharge for RV sites in dozens of campgrounds because of increased…
Continue ReadingFour bodies found on Polish-Belarus border as spat over migrant crisis worsens
By Antonia Mortensen, Allegra Goodwin and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Four people have died on Poland’s border with Belarus in recent days, amid…
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