More than 45 dead after Ida’s remnants blindside Northeast
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, DAVID PORTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A stunned U.S. East Coast is facing a sobering death toll,…
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India locks down Kashmir after top separatist leader’s death
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities have restricted public movement and cut communications in disputed…
Continue ReadingThose left in Afghanistan complain of broken US promises
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In the final days of the chaotic American airlift from Afghanistan, Javed Habibi, a…
Continue ReadingWhat it was like to be stranded on subway stations and trains overnight during New York floods
CNN By Eric Levenson, CNN Camilla Akbari boarded a 7:43 p.m. New Jersey Transit train on Wednesday night from New York Penn Station hoping to get to…
Continue ReadingCivil rights museum honors Michelle Obama, grassroots group
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama and The Poor People’s Campaign have been chosen to receive Freedom Awards from the…
Continue Reading‘Lean In’ circles help women in construction navigate bias
By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The construction industry is fighting to recruit more women into a sector that faces chronic…
Continue ReadingFlights resume, some power restored in New Orleans after Ida
By REBECCA SANTANA, MELINDA DESLATTE and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Commercial flights have resumed in New Orleans and…
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Bend City Council declares ‘Welcoming Week’ Sept. 10-19
The Bend City Council Wednesday night declared Welcoming Week, Sept.…
Continue ReadingIda triggers massive flooding across Northeast
By Melissa Mahtani, Melissa Macaya, Meg Wagner, Joshua Berlinger, Amy Woodyatt, Aditi Sangal, Adam Renton and Ed Upright, CNN The-CNN-Wire™…
Continue ReadingLake Tahoe wildfire seemed controllable, then it wasn’t
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Last week, managers overseeing the fight against the massive wildfire scorching…
Continue ReadingLake Tahoe wildfire seemed controllable, until winds flared
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Last week, managers overseeing the fight against the massive wildfire scorching…
Continue ReadingWith Lake Tahoe spared, better weather helps wildfire fight
By SAM METZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Better weather is helping in the battle against a huge California…
Continue ReadingMilley: US coordination with Taliban on strikes ‘possible’
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, says…
Continue ReadingAP sources: Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Far right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers…
Continue Reading‘It looked apocalyptic’: Crew describes Afghan departure
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military pilots and aircrew who made the final flights out of Afghanistan say the…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Congress asks tech companies for Jan. 6 records
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested that…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Congress asks tech companies for Jan. 6 records
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested that…
Continue ReadingAfter voters embraced mail ballots, GOP states tighten rules
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press Texas has become the latest state where Republicans have rolled back access to voting…
Continue ReadingBiden blasts high court failure to block Texas abortion curb
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is denouncing the Supreme Court’s decision not to block a new Texas law…
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Braelynn’s fellow fighters: La Pine firefighters help family of 2-year-old with chronic epilepsy
Two-year-old Braelynn Love Ann Rochlin suffers from chronic epilepsy and is one fighter in a La Pine family of five — and many in the community are…
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