Rutgers University Center for Islamic Life vandalized during Eid al-Fitr, officials say
By Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU) in New Brunswick was vandalized overnight during…
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When are the 2025 Oscars? The Academy Awards announce date, sticking to early start
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2. The date announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Senate creates commission to investigate alleged soccer match-fixing
By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has created a commission to investigate soccer match-fixing. The move…
Continue ReadingSpeaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters
By LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing…
Continue ReadingChallenger to the judge in Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case is disqualified
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One of two people who filed paperwork to run against the judge presiding over former President…
Continue ReadingKishida cracks jokes and invokes ‘Star Trek’ as he and Biden toast US-Japan alliance at state dinner
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cracked jokes and invoked a…
Continue ReadingRepublican Sen. Rick Scott softens his abortion position after Florida Supreme Court ruling
By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is joining other Republican incumbents scrambling to…
Continue ReadingConservative revolt in the House blocks effort to reauthorize a key US spy tool
By ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program…
Continue ReadingHow women’s NCAA basketball and Caitlin Clark broke viewership records, in three charts
By Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship between Iowa and South Carolina drew nearly 19 million average viewers,…
Continue ReadingWhat to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the…
Continue ReadingTown creates public art ordinance after free speech debate over doughnut mural
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials…
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Deschutes County joins ODOT, others in not allowing political signs in road rights of way
With Primary Election Day approaching on Tuesday, May 21, the Deschutes County Road Department said Monday it wants to make sure political campaigns…
Continue ReadingRalph Puckett Jr., awarded Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War, dies at 97
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A retired U.S. Army colonel who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War has died at age 97. A…
Continue ReadingInvestigators focus on electrical system of ship in Baltimore bridge collapse
By LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal safety investigators are focusing on the electrical power system of the…
Continue ReadingJapan is giving Washington 250 new cherry trees to replace those to be lost in construction work
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan is giving the United States 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that are…
Continue ReadingTennessee Senate OKs a bill that would make it illegal for adults to help minors seeking abortions
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee on Wednesday advanced legislation making it illegal…
Continue ReadingLast call for dry towns? New York weighs lifting post-Prohibition law that let towns keep booze bans
By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York towns and villages that have post-Prohibition bans on alcohol…
Continue ReadingTrump says Arizona’s abortion ban goes too far while defending the overturning of Roe v. Wade
By BILL BARROW and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump said Wednesday that an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all…
Continue ReadingShip’s power system and circuit breakers are focus of Key Bridge collapse probe, investigators say
By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The investigation into why a cargo ship lost power and struck a Baltimore bridge last month, causing it to…
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How to limit PFAS in your drinking water and food, according to experts
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized stringent new regulations on levels of six perfluoroalkyl…
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