Canadian firefighters wage epic battle to save communities after mass evacuations
By DAVID SHARP, JIM MORRIS and MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Firefighters battling wildfires in western…
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Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement off to slow start even as thousands lose coverage
By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Public health advocates say Georgia appears to be doing little to promote its new Medicaid plan…
Continue ReadingEmerging economies are pushing to end the dollar’s dominance. But what’s the alternative?
By CHINEDU ASADU, GERALD IMRAY, FARAI MUTSAKA and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Business has vanished at Kingsley Odafe’s…
Continue ReadingAnalysis: Why F-16 jets can’t come soon enough for Ukraine
CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Dnipro, Ukraine (CNN) — The depth and frequency of craters across the frontline city of Orikhiv are a blunt…
Continue ReadingAnalysis: Why F-16 jets can’t come soon enough for Ukraine
By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Dnipro, Ukraine (CNN) — The depth and frequency of craters across the frontline city of Orikhiv are a blunt example of…
Continue ReadingThousands more Mauritanians are making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, PATRICK ORSAGOS and RENATA BRITO Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Aissata Sall was scrolling through WhatsApp in May when she…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Kishida to visit Fukushima plant before deciding date to start controversial water release
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will visit the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear…
Continue ReadingHundreds of Mexican cultural artifacts were detained and returned to Mexico by US CBP
By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — More than 200 Mexican artifacts seized by US customs agents, some dating to 900 BC, have been repatriated to the…
Continue ReadingRail whistleblowers fired for voicing safety concerns despite efforts to end practice of retaliation
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Hours before a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio and erupted in fire in February, a judge…
Continue ReadingChinese military launches drills around Taiwan as a ‘warning’ after a top island official went to US
BEIJING (AP) — China’s defense ministry says its military has launched drills around Taiwan as a “stern warning” over what it calls collusion…
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Deschutes County road construction update: Week of August 20-26
Here is Deschutes County’s road construction update for the week of August…
Continue ReadingLocal governments are spending billions of pandemic relief funds, but some report few specifics
By DAVID A. LIEB and KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press Joplin officials say they have big plans for $13.8 million of pandemic relief funds the…
Continue ReadingTrump looms large over Iowa State Fair, but many GOP voters still mulling their caucus choices
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The loop Donald Trump’s private jet made above the Iowa…
Continue ReadingFamily of assassinated Ecuadorian presidential candidate accuse state of ‘murder by willful omission’
By Florence Trucco and Ana María Cañizares (CNNE) — The family of assassinated Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has…
Continue ReadingJapan vows to strengthen ‘strategic collaboration’ with US and South Korea at historic meeting
By Shirin Faqiri and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to strengthen “trilateral strategic…
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ODOT closes 15-mile stretch of state Hwy. 242, the McKenzie Highway, west of Sisters due to Lookout Fire
ODOT closed a 15-mile stretch of Highway 242, the McKenzie Pass Highway, west of Sisters late Friday afternoon due to fire activity and conditions…
Continue ReadingSchool board votes to fire teacher who read book on gender identity to Georgia fifth-graders
CNN By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A suburban Atlanta school board has voted to terminate the contract of a teacher who read a book about gender…
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Oregon DEQ issues air quality advisory for Deschutes, Crook counties; Noah Kahan cancels Saturday Bend concert
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued an air quality advisory Friday for Jackson, southern…
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Clear the Shelters: Redmond’s BrightSide Animal Center sees summer uptick in strays, seeks adopters
This week in our month-long Clear the Shelters campaign, partnering with NBC to encourage adoptions (with a 50 percent fee discount, as well as…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide’s lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift
By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ordered an aide to sell undeclared luxury jewelry…
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