AP Player of the Week: Nebraska’s Jaz Shelley leads team to comeback win over Iowa
By The Associated Press The Associated Press national player of the week in women’s basketball for Week 14 of the season: JAZ SHELLEY, NEBRASKA…
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President’s intervention keeps Paris’ riverside bookstalls in place for the Olympics
By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has canceled plans to move Paris’ famed second-hand…
Continue ReadingButtigieg visits interstate highway bridge in Pacific Northwest slated for seismic replacement
By CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER KANE Associated Press VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday toured the…
Continue Reading3 dead in bombing attack on Congo displacement camp as violence in the east escalates
By RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A group of rebels bombed a displacement camp in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province killing…
Continue ReadingVideo shows deputies fired dozens of shots at armed 81-year-old man in South Carolina
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Body camera recordings released by a sheriff’s office in South Carolina show deputies…
Continue ReadingIn this centuries-old English pancake race, ‘you just have to go flat out’
By KWIYEON HA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press OLNEY, England (AP) — For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the…
Continue ReadingHumanity’s earliest recorded kiss adds new twist to the history of locking lips
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit…
Continue ReadingJon Stewart’s return to ‘The Daily Show’ felt familiar to those who missed him while he was away
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, Jon Stewart really wasn’t sitting at his desk at Comedy Central for the last nine years,…
Continue ReadingFamily of Palestinian-American detained by Israel seeks her release. ‘I want my mother back’
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank…
Continue ReadingFake Michigan Certificate of Votes mailed to U.S. Senate after 2020 presidential vote, official says
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press An official says a fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020…
Continue ReadingMan pleads guilty to embezzling millions meant to fund Guatemala forestry projects
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who managed two forestry projects in Guatemala for a New Hampshire-based investment company has pleaded guilty in…
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City of Madras, Jefferson County Fire & EMS hire new code enforcement officer
MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Over the last 24 months, the City of Madras has been challenged with code enforcement. In July of 2023, the City and the…
Continue ReadingIsrael releases video purportedly showing Hamas leader Sinwar in tunnel under Khan Younis
By Lauren Izso, Vasco Cotovio, Jessie Gretener and Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military released a video that purportedly shows the…
Continue ReadingFormer Indonesian general linked to human rights abuses claims victory in presidential election
By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A former general linked to past human rights abuses has claimed…
Continue ReadingCalls grow in Europe to halt arms exports to Israel as US Senate passes aid package
By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Some European countries say they have stalled arms exports to Israel amid growing consternation about the way…
Continue ReadingAn arrest has been made in the theft of a Jackie Robinson statue later found dismantled and burned
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A 45-year-old man was arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa asks UN court to urgently examine Israel’s targeting of Rafah in ongoing genocide case
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s government said Tuesday it had lodged an “urgent request” with…
Continue ReadingSurging restaurant prices are making dining out a luxury
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — If you’ve opted to cook a romantic meal at home with your partner this Valentine’s Day — no…
Continue ReadingUS government sues to block largest supermarket merger in history
CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued to block the $25 billion deal between Kroger and…
Continue ReadingUS Virgin Islands pushes forward on stalled law allowing recreational marijuana use
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A stalled marijuana law in the U.S. Virgin Islands has received a big push after an…
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