Bird flu is decimating seal colonies. Scientists don’t know how to stop it
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners…
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Bird flu is decimating seal colonies. Scientists don’t know how to stop it
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners…
Continue ReadingTrial starts for Arizona border rancher charged with killing migrant on his property
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona rancher has gone on trial in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico.…
Continue ReadingMore than 100 iconic cherry trees in Washington are being cut down. So long, Stumpy
By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sun is setting on Stumpy, the gnarled old cherry tree that has become a social media…
Continue ReadingKenya’s police could be sent to Haiti to quell gang violence. Some Kenyans are bitterly opposed
By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — Kenya’s plan to lead a multinational force in Haiti as part of a United…
Continue ReadingTens of millions of people in this country drink arsenic-contaminated water. It could get a lot worse
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It started with spots dappled across people’s chests and backs. Unusual hard patches on the skin of their…
Continue ReadingTrump’s social media company approved to go public, potentially netting former president billions
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to the stock market, and the former president stands to…
Continue ReadingDrought, heat and mismanagement make getting fresh water an increasingly tough task
By The Associated Press As the world warms from human-caused climate change, fresh water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is becoming harder to get…
Continue ReadingVietnam’s president resigns in latest twist of anti-graft campaign shaking its fast-growing economy
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam’s president has resigned as the ruling communist party in the latest episode…
Continue ReadingState Farm discontinuing 72,000 home policies in California in latest blow to state insurance market
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Insurance giant State Farm says it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments in California starting this…
Continue ReadingNearly 5 million animals dead in Mongolia’s harshest winter in half a century, aid agencies say
By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Mongolia is freezing through its harshest winter in half a century with extreme conditions killing more than 4.7…
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DCSO identifies armed Bend 18-year-old shot and killed by Bend Police officer after Bend Parkway crash
Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies on Thursday released the name of an 18-year-old Bend resident who a Bend police officer shot and killed when…
Continue ReadingCarnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti
CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Harold Isaac and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — A woman hustles her young child into a…
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Children’s Forest of Central Oregon receives $15,000 donation from the BottleDrop Fund
CLACKAMAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, which operates the BottleDrop network, announced Thursday that it has…
Continue ReadingThird man charged with murder in Kansas City Chiefs rally shooting
By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A third man has been charged with murder in connection to the mass shooting after a Kansas City Chiefs championship…
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Oregon AG joins other states, USDOJ in lawsuit accusing Apple of monopolizing smartphone markets
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on Thursday joined the US Department of Justice and a coalition of 15 state attorneys…
Continue Reading$3 billion deal with the UK gets Australia closer to having a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines
By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia is set to provide $3 billion to British industry to support the construction of…
Continue ReadingCarnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti
CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Harold Isaac and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — A woman hustles her young child into a…
Continue ReadingCarnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti
By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Harold Isaac and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — A woman hustles her young child into a…
Continue ReadingLack of buses keeps Los Angeles jail inmates from court appearances and contributes to overcrowding
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Up to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage…
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