Bend councilors agree to proceed with two possible sites for managed homeless camps
Bend city councilors got an update Wednesday evening on an array of efforts to tackle the problem of homelessness in the community and gave staff…
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Bangladesh disputes study into alleged forced disappearances
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is disputing a Human Rights Watch investigation into disappearances of government critics and others as built…
Continue ReadingThe Latest: Hungary evacuates 2 dozen nationals from Kabul
The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — More than two dozen Hungarian nationals evacuated from Kabul have arrived in Frankfurt, Germany, and…
Continue ReadingGulf Coast’s beloved ‘Redneck Riviera’ now a virus hotspot
By JAY REEVES Associated Press GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Gulf Coast is glowing like a bad sunburn on maps that show COVID-19 trouble spots…
Continue ReadingReport: 2 Hong Kongers plead guilty to foreign collusion
HONG KONG (AP) — Two Hong Kongers have reportedly pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces as well as Next Digital founder Jimmy…
Continue ReadingJimmy Carter, trounced in 1980, gets fresh look from history
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president. The backhanded…
Continue ReadingBooming Colo. town asks, ‘Where will water come from?’
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — The northern Colorado city of Greeley is in one of the fastest-growing regions in the United…
Continue Reading8th-graders lead effort to pardon wrongly convicted ‘witch’
By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A woman convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch…
Continue ReadingWayne Hughes, billionaire businessman and horse owner, dies
By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The founder and chairman of Public Storage has died. B. Wayne Hughes died at home in Lexington,…
Continue ReadingPolice jailed a man for murder; algorithm was key evidence
By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams, a 65-year-old grandfather…
Continue ReadingHow AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to…
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Les Schwab Amphitheater to soon require proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test for all events
The Les Schwab Amphitheater will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test at all concerts “in short order,” but still plans to only…
Continue ReadingEthnic health care systems strained in Myanmar amid pandemic
By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Independent ethnic organizations that have been providing health care in Myanmar…
Continue ReadingThe latest on Afghanistan as the Taliban take charge
CNN By Kara Fox, Aditi Sangal, Jessie Yeung, Steve George, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya and Melissa Mahtani, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021…
Continue ReadingAugust 19, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news
By Kara Fox, Aditi Sangal, Jessie Yeung, Steve George, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya and Melissa Mahtani, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021…
Continue ReadingUS struggles to speed Kabul airlift despite Taliban, chaos
By ROBERT BURNS, MATTHEW LEE, and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are struggling to speed the pace of…
Continue ReadingBiden: Greater threats than Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
By ROBERT BURNS, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden says that even with the Taliban in power in…
Continue ReadingMisread warnings helped lead to chaotic Afghan evacuation
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The warnings were clear: The Afghan government would likely fall once U.S.…
Continue ReadingAid flows a bit more quickly into Haiti; challenges remain
By MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s entrenched poverty, insecurity and lack of basic…
Continue Reading4 Takeaways: AP investigates gunshot detection technology
By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press Michael Williams, a 65-year-old grandfather from Chicago, sat…
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