5 things to know for August 9: Storms, Ohio, Economy, Biden, Ukraine
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lottery ticket sold in Florida won Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing for the $1.58 billion jackpot. This will…
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EU leader promises aid and support to flood-ravaged Slovenia during visit
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has visited Slovenia and promised EU help to the small member state…
Continue ReadingGunmen attack police guarding polio team in northwest Pakistan and kill 1 officer
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen have attacked police officers providing security for polio vaccination workers during a door-to-door…
Continue ReadingExplosion at plant near Moscow injures at least 60
By Uliana Pavlova and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — At least 60 people were injured and eight remain unaccounted for following an explosion at an…
Continue ReadingHip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting
By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop has been an integral part of social and racial justice movements. It’s also been…
Continue ReadingA 3-month-old died after he was left unattended in a vehicle in Houston
KTRK By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Houston police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old after he was left inside a vehicle on a…
Continue ReadingA 3-month-old died after he was left unattended in a vehicle in Houston
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Houston police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old after he was left inside a vehicle on a sweltering…
Continue ReadingWomen battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction
By SHAR0N JOHNSON and NARDOS HAILE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rasheeda Frost’s decades-long relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She…
Continue ReadingMostly clear conditions ahead
Hello Central Oregon! Weather today and for the near future is expected to be relatively unexciting with warm dry conditions on the way as well as…
Continue ReadingThe NBA has been playing to a hip-hop beat for nearly 50 years
By KYLE HIGHTOWER AND ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writers Just as a movie soundtrack helps viewers follow the action of the narrative through each plot…
Continue ReadingHow hip-hop went from being shunned by big business to multimillion-dollar collabs
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The signs of hip-hop’s influence are now everywhere from Pharrell Williams becoming Louis…
Continue ReadingHip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there’s pride, still hard times
By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press BRONX, NEW YORK (AP) — Before it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a…
Continue ReadingHip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way
By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the five decades since hip-hop emerged out of New York City, it has spread around the country…
Continue Reading41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia
By NICOLE WINFIELD, RENATA BRITO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat…
Continue ReadingProfit at Japan’s Honda doubles on healthy global auto and motorcycle sales
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda says its April-June profit more than doubled on healthy sales of its motorcycles and cars,…
Continue ReadingIndia’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi condemns the Modi government over violence in Manipur
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has strongly condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
Continue ReadingNearly 100 Croatian soccer fans face murder, gang-related charges in Greece after deadly violence
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and LEFTERIS PITARAKIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nearly 100 Croatian soccer fans have appeared in an Athens court…
Continue ReadingSri Lankan president vows to strengthen provincial governments to share power with Tamil minority
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says he will strengthen provincial governments to meet…
Continue ReadingDam in Norway partially bursts after days of heavy rain, flooding and evacuations
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A dam in southern Norway partially burst after days of heavy rain that triggered…
Continue ReadingAmazon nations fail to agree on a common goal to end deforestation
By Tatiana Arias and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable…
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