Judge 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…
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‘The world must wake up’: Tasks daunting as UN meeting opens
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning global leaders at the opening of the U.N.’s foremost…
Continue ReadingCleaning out the attic, journalist discovers two letters written to him by the Unabomber
By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN As part of a pandemic project suggested by his wife, Jack Epstein began last month going through his papers that were…
Continue ReadingDems, backers face uphill immigration path after Senate blow
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are launching an uphill fight to rescue their drive to help millions of immigrants…
Continue ReadingHouse OKs debt and funding plan, inviting clash with GOP
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its…
Continue ReadingQ&A: America’s new COVID-19 rules for international travel
By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is rolling out new COVID-19 rules for travelers flying into the…
Continue ReadingQ&A: America’s new COVID-19 rules for international travel
By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is rolling out new COVID-19 rules for travelers flying into the…
Continue ReadingBiden promises ‘relentless diplomacy’ to skeptical allies
By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden has used his first address before the U.N. General…
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‘People from Our Past’ presentations to feature Ada Millican at the Bowman Museum
The fascinating history of Crook County doesn’t only belong to the men who settled here. Women arrived as wives, adventurers, and entrepreneurs.…
Continue ReadingHaitian trip to Texas border often starts in South America
By JULIE WATSON, JUAN A. LOZANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The route for Haitian migrants camped under a bridge in a…
Continue ReadingHaitian trip to Texas border often starts in South America
By JULIE WATSON, JUAN A. LOZANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The route for Haitian migrants camped under a bridge in a…
Continue ReadingLong-lost letter reunites families of two Jewish sisters and the Polish farmer who saved them from the Nazis
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN As a child growing up in Sweden, Karolina Jurzyk didn’t pay much attention to her grandfather’s tales of wartime…
Continue ReadingA nurse’s training didn’t protect her from vaccine misinformation. Now, she’s one of the victims of Covid-19
By Dan Simon and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Natalie Rise was a registered nurse in Idaho who loved her job as a home health care worker before she decided…
Continue ReadingChina keeps virus at bay at high cost ahead of Olympics
By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and…
Continue ReadingChina keeps virus at bay at high cost ahead of Olympics
By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US
By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. officials say many Haitian migrants camped in a small…
Continue ReadingDown syndrome issue at center of Missouri abortion law case
By JIM SALTER Associated Press The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is deciding the fate of a Missouri law that puts sweeping…
Continue ReadingPackers dominate 2nd half, bounce back to beat Lions 35-17
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Jones caught three of Aaron Rodgers’ four touchdown passes and rushed for a…
Continue ReadingThailand urged not to deport trans woman charged in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A human rights group is urging Thailand not to deport a transgender woman to her home country of Malaysia, where she…
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Beulah’s Place in Redmond comes to a close after 13 years helping at-risk teens
Beulah’s Place, a Redmond nonprofit organization created as a safe haven for teen victims of sexual predators and criminal activity, is closing on…
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