Landslide at Myanmar jade mine leaves more than 30 people missing, rescue official says
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar left more than 30 people missing, and a…
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Kansas police and a small newspaper are at the center of a 1st Amendment fight after a newsroom raid
By JOHN HANNA and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a…
Continue ReadingThe Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After two years in power, the Taliban are entrenched as rulers of Afghanistan, facing no…
Continue ReadingSix former Mississippi officers plead guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to…
Continue ReadingMiddle school in China under fire for telling girls not to ‘behave flirtatiously’ to avoid sexual harassment
By Berry Wang, CNN (CNN) — A controversial lesson on sexual harassment at a middle school in southern China has stirred online debate about…
Continue ReadingEcuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Belen Diaz was walking home from college one evening when a motorcycle carrying…
Continue ReadingMore states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls teams as K-12 classes resume
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As children across the U.S. head back to classes and practices for fall sports, four more states…
Continue ReadingDavid McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut
By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — David McCormick had a clear explanation for why his fellow Republican, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost a…
Continue ReadingHow Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Just one month after Donald Trump’s January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of…
Continue ReadingWhat to stream this weekend: ‘Monkey King,’ Stand Up to Cancer, ‘No Hard Feelings,’ Madden NFL 24
By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Irish singer-songwriter Hozier and Idina Menzel, the animated…
Continue ReadingEndangered lioness killed after escaping farm in South Korea
By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — An endangered lioness was shot dead in South Korea on Monday, an hour after…
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Crash of remote-controlled plane sparks 3-acre brush fire in NE Redmond
A brush fire that blackened three acres in northeast Redmond Sunday afternoon had a most unusual cause, as it turns out: a remote-controlled airplane…
Continue ReadingProminent Hong Kong democracy activists partially win bid to quash convictions over 2019 protest
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy advocates have had part of their convictions…
Continue ReadingLioness shot dead after escaping from farm in South Korea
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A lioness escaped from a farm in South Korea, touching off an emergency search before…
Continue ReadingA family, a beloved sister, 2 senior housing residents. These are some of the lives lost in Maui
By MICHAEL CASEY, PAT EATON-ROBB and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Wildfires devastated parts of Maui in Hawaii last week, leaving a trail of…
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Redmond’s Music and Arts Festival wraps up weekend of sights and sounds at High Desert Music Hall
Sunday was the third and final day of Redmond’s Music and Arts Festival at the High Desert Music Hall. There was a chance to shop for jewelry,…
Continue ReadingThe death toll from the Maui wildfires has climbed to 96. Here’s what we know about the deadliest US fire in over a century
CNN By Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Crews in west Maui are continuing the heart-wrenching work of sifting through the…
Continue Reading2 people safely eject from jet that later crashed during Thunder Over Michigan air show
WXYZ, RYAN JACOBOWSKI, JOSEF MEHALL, DANIEL MAIER, THUNDER OVER MICHIGAN, CNN By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Two people ejected from a jet that…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea’s Kim orders sharp increase in missile production, days before US-South Korea drills
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again toured major munitions factories and ordered a…
Continue Reading2 die in North Carolina plane crash that cut power to thousands
By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Two people aboard a small plane died after it crashed into a North Carolina lake Sunday morning, hitting a power…
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