Uber pays $178 million to end legal fight with Australian taxi drivers
SYDNEY (AP) — Global rideshare giant Uber will pay 272 million Australian dollars ($178 million) to settle a long-running dispute with Australian…
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First charter flight with US citizens fleeing Haiti lands in Miami
MIAMI (AP) — A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti landed Sunday in Miami, U.S. State…
Continue ReadingA second man is charged in connection with 2005 theft of ruby slippers worn in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A second man has been charged in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby…
Continue ReadingSouth Carolina, Iowa, USC and Texas are the top seeds in the women’s NCAA Tournament
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Dawn Staley and South Carolina could see some familiar faces on their path to trying to finish off an…
Continue Reading‘Peak bloom!’: Cherry blossoms open early in DC, park service announces
By Aileen Graef and Elisa Raffa, CNN (CNN) — The cherry blossoms lining the National Mall in Washington, DC, have hit “peak bloom,”…
Continue ReadingOregon county plants trees to honor victims of killer 2021 heat wave
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Family members of some of the people killed by record-breaking heat in the Portland, Oregon, area three years ago gathered…
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Oregon county plants trees to honor victims of killer 2021 heat wave
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Family members of some of the people killed by record-breaking heat in the Portland, Oregon, area three years ago gathered…
Continue ReadingPutin extends one-man rule in Russia after stage-managed election devoid of credible opposition
By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — President Vladimir Putin has tightened his grip on the country he has ruled since the turn of the century,…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea resumes missile tests, raising tensions with its rivals after their military drills’ end
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its…
Continue ReadingCommenting on Navalny’s death for first time, Putin says he supported prisoner swap for his foe
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin says he supported an idea to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a…
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OSU, NOAA study finds marine heat waves disrupt the ocean’s food web in the northeast Pacific
NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may…
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Oregon parks, Siuslaw Forest ask coast visitors to respect nesting areas to protect threatened snowy plover
MANZANITA, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and Siuslaw National Forest remind visitors that it is plover nesting season…
Continue ReadingBodies of 2 men recovered from river in Washington state
INDEX, Wash. (AP) — Rescue crews along a river in Washington state on Sunday recovered the bodies of two men a day after they fell into the water…
Continue ReadingAuthorities seize 750-pound alligator named Albert from New York home
WKBW, HERD PRODUCTIONS, TONY CAVALLARO, NYS DEC, CNN By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — An upstate New York man was forced to say “see you later,…
Continue ReadingCatch up on the day’s news: Trump’s bond, asbestos ban, OTC birth control
WKBW, CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! We’re trying out an evening version of our popular 5 Things morning newsletter right…
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Bernie Sanders wants the US to adopt a 32-hour workweek. Could workers and companies benefit?
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press The 40-hour workweek has been standard in the U.S. for more than eight decades. Now some members of Congress want to…
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Tips, complaints lead to surveillance, drug raid on NE Bend home; six arrested in breakup of fentanyl trafficking ring
Community tips and complaints led to several weeks’ surveillance of a northeast Bend home where fentanyl and other drugs were believed to be…
Continue ReadingAP PHOTOS: Boston celebrates St. Patrick’s Day; Biden holds White House brunch with Irish leader
The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — While some American cities celebrated St. Patrick’s Day a day early this weekend, Boston, one of the most…
Continue ReadingUndeterred: Kansas City crowds go to St. Patrick’s Day parade, month after violence at Chiefs’ rally
By NICK INGRAM and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The memory of the deadly shooting at the last month’s Super Bowl rally…
Continue ReadingAuthorities seize 750-pound alligator named Albert from New York home
By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — An upstate New York man was forced to say “see you later, alligator” to his unusual pet after local authorities…
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