By Julia Lopez and Noor Shami Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — A teenager who allegedly hit a man on the head with a skateboard in Gresham Sunday turned himself into police Tuesday evening. Around 6:30 p.m., a 15-year-old came to the Gresham Police Department with his parents. He is
Continue ReadingBy Julia Avery Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Kansas City has a lot to be proud of. The sports teams, the architecture, and most of all the people. One impressive Kansas Citian, in particular, was just honored at the Inaugural KC Current match in CPKC Stadium. Lily Dickson
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission has rejected a petition seeking to force a recall election of the state’s top elected Republican, who has drawn the ire of former President Donald Trump. Trump backers angry with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos launched the recall effort. They cited his refusal to decertify President Joe Biden’s
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A memoir Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published this fall. “Patriot,” which publisher Alfred A. Knopf is calling the late Russian opposition leader’s “final letter to the world,” will come out Oct. 22. Navalny, 47, died in February while serving a 19-year prison sentence on extremism charges
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws on reproductive rights in Europe. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s party has proposed changing the law – which
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Many “Yellowstone” viewers very much want Kevin Costner to return for the remainder of the drama’s final season, and it sounds like he’s not against the idea. Costner, who has starred as the patriarch John Dutton on the series, reportedly came to an impasse last year with the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Jordan Janes knew when he arrived at the Masters for the first time a pimento cheese sandwich was a must-have. He wanted to soak in the Augusta National experience, and that has long included the iconic staple on the affordable Masters menu. And no, Janes
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The top US humanitarian official said Wednesday it is “credible” to assess that famine is already occurring in parts of Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas continues. Although US officials have been sounding the alarm about the imminent risk of famine in the war-torn strip, USAID Administrator
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — The remnants of a defaced Jackie Robinson statue from a park in Wichita will find a permanent home in Kansas City on Thursday. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum said it will accept and give home to the bronze cleats that
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian man who was in jail awaiting trial on charges of insulting the authoritarian president has died in custody. The country’s leading human rights group says Aliaksandr Kulinich, 51, died Tuesday in a detention center in the western city of Brest that is notorious for harsh treatment of opposition activists.
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Firefighters in Italy say that divers have discovered two more bodies of workers who died in an explosion that collapsed and flooded several levels of an underground hydroelectric plant earlier this week, bringing to five the number of confirmed dead. The explosion Tuesday at the Enel Green Power plant near Bologna occurred
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN NEWVINE Associated Press If you daydream about getting a break from stress, you might picture a restful week of vacation or a long weekend away. But some folks have found ways to take longer or more varied time away from the routine. Maybe it’s extended leave from a job. Or just working remotely
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Organizers announced that new films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as a portrait of 1980s Donald Trump, will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux says this year’s lineup was plucked from 2,000 submissions.
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story THEODORE, Alabama (WALA) — Mobile County largely escaped damage from storms that blew through on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean everyone emerged unscathed. Just ask David Jacobs, whose car got stuck off of Old Pascagoula Road near Pecan Terrace. “You know, weather ain’t been too
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Olson Click here for updates on this story ROSE, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — An 85-year-old woman who shot and killed a man after he broke into her home in the middle of the night was threatened, hit, handcuffed to a chair and shot multiple times, according to newly released information. The home invasion happened
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Parrots are smart, with some species found to have the problem-solving skills of a young child. So if small kids can use technology in some capacity, why can’t parrots? Researchers aiming to answer why parrots should use technology for cognitive enrichment set out to answer just how tablets could be improved
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng (EE-ng) to its board of directors. Ng is known for leading AI teams at the Chinese tech company Baidu and Google, where his team taught a computer system to recognize cats in YouTube videos without ever being taught what a cat was. In
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By Meredith Bruckner Click here for updates on this story DEXTER, Michigan (WWJ) — A rare corpse flower is now in bloom in Dexter. The plant gets its name from its pungent smell of rotting flesh, but to its owners, it’s known as “Corpsy.” It has set the record for the tallest blooming corpse flower
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices rose in March from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly a year, offering more evidence that progress against inflation may have stalled this year and raising doubts about whether and when the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates. The
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Many kids in Poland are rejoicing over strict limits imposed by the government on the amount of homework. Teachers and parents aren’t so sure. The decree says teachers can’t give required homework to kids in the first to third grades. For grades four
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