By Issy Ronald, Antonio Jarne and Krystina Shveda, CNN (CNN) — Soccer players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup will on average earn just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at their World Cup last year, a new CNN analysis found. Still, that is an improvement: last time, in 2019, it was less
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court would have to abide by stronger ethics standards under legislation approved on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a response to recent revelations about donor-funded trips by justices. The bill faced united opposition from Republicans, who said it could “destroy” the court. The
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center. Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a lethal injection at 10:01 a.m. and was pronounced dead 12 minutes later at the Oklahoma
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the IRS to test a new electronic free-file tax return system next year have got supporters and critics of the idea mobilizing over whether the government should set up a permanent program to help people file their taxes without needing to pay somebody else to
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Este fin de semana, el cine le pertenece a las muñecas y la perdición. Es el acontecimiento cinematográfico del verano: “Barbie”, de Greta Gerwig, y “Oppenheimer”, de Christopher Nolan, una epopeya de tres horas “emocionalmente devastadora”, llegan a los cines este jueves. Aparte de sus prestigiosos equipos creativos, las películas tienen
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020. If
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike notice. The notice was later rescinded by the union which shut down ports on Canada’s west coast earlier this month for nearly two weeks. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada said late
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on a popular Australian tourist island in a ferocious attack that a rescuer said could have been fatal. Sarah Peet, 23, was attacked by three or four Australian native dogs on
Continue ReadingBy BOB SUTTON Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Sue Martin had the summer mapped out for her family from St. Augustine, Florida. Then along came word that Chelsea and Wrexham would play a preseason friendly on U.S. soil. “We had a whole vacation planned and they dropped this game,” Martin said before .
Continue ReadingBy Hamdi Alkhshali, Celine Alkhaldi and Aqeel Najim, CNN (CNN) — Iraqi security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators who stormed the main gates of the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in response to police in Stockholm sanctioning another planned burning of the Muslim holy book, the Quran. Videos posted on social media
Continue ReadingBy JEFF TURNER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A row of tightly trimmed ficus trees along a stretch of sidewalk outside Universal Studios has become a hot spot in the face-off between Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters and actors. Some members of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA unions think the studio purposely pruned the trees
Continue ReadingBy Hamdi Alkhshali, Celine Alkhaldi and Aqeel Najim, CNN (CNN) — Iraqi security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators who stormed the main gates of the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in response to police in Stockholm sanctioning another planned burning of the Muslim holy book, the Quran. Videos posted on social media
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend nonprofit Street Dog Hero welcomed 32 rescue dogs from a crowded Oklahoma shelter, flown to Bend Airport on Wednesday by the organization Dog is My Copilot. The dogs will be available for adoption – in fact, five already have been. “This flight in particular, we got a message about one
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER and MELISSA WINDER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Family members of the U.S. Army private who sprinted across the border into North Korea said Wednesday that he may have felt overwhelmed as he faced legal troubles and his possible looming discharge from the military. Relatives described Pvt. Travis King, 23, as
Continue ReadingMASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The wife of the man charged in the deaths of three women whose remains were found along a Long Island beach roadway has filed for divorce. Asa Ellerup, wife of Rex Heuermann, filed the complaint in Suffolk County Supreme Court on Wednesday. Heuermann was charged last week with murdering the
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to stop an upcoming execution in Alabama. Sixty-four-year-old James Barber is scheduled to be put to death Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison. It is the first execution scheduled in the state since Gov. Kay Ivey paused them in November for an internal review.
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Deschutes County commissioners will hear from residents Wednesday afternoon on a proposed camping ban first brought forth on June 7th by Sheriff Shane Nelson.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man has been convicted of blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018, killing her and seriously injuring two clients. A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Stephen Beal of four felonies on Wednesday including use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Authorities in Alabama cast doubt Wednesday on the story of a woman who set off a frantic search when she disappeared for two days after calling 911 to report a toddler wandering on the highway. Carlee Russell told investigators she was abducted and forced into a car Thursday, but they
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Country music star Jason Aldean ‘s latest music video for “Try That In A Small Town,” lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over its setting and lyrics. In the video, Aldean — who has been awarded country
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