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By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Floodwaters that rushed through Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities earlier this week are moving through Montana’s largest city, flooding farms and ranches and forcing the shutdown of its water treatment plant. The water in the Yellowstone River hit its highest level in
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By JACK SOMMERS Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Zac Gallen pitched seven effective innings despite an early bout of wildness, and the Arizona Diamondbacks used a four-run eighth inning to top the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 on Wednesday. Geraldo Perdomo hit a two-run homer for the Diamondbacks, who avoided a sweep after the Reds took the
Continue Reading By BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Whit Merrifield broke a 2-2 tie with an eighth-inning sacrifice fly and the Kansas City Royals edged the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep. Andrew Benintendi led off the inning with a pinch-hit double off Giants reliever John Brebbia. Nicky Lopez
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — La película “Barbie” de Greta Gerwig no llegará a los cines hasta dentro de un año. Gracias a Dios, entonces, por un recorte de la película que Warner Bros. estrenó el miércoles ante un público desprevenido: una foto de Ryan Gosling como Ken, el novio bronceado, tonificado y plástico de Barbie.
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday to stymie what what his administration calls discriminatory legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community by Republican-controlled states, declaring before a signing ceremony packed with activists, “pride is back at the White House.” The order seeks to discourage “conversion therapy”
Continue Reading By FABIANNO MAISONNAVE and EDMAR BARROS Associated Press ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s justice minister said Wednesday that police reported finding human remains in the Amazon area where an Indigenous expert and British journalist disappeared more than a week ago. Justice Minister Anderson Torres said the remains had not been identified. Writing on
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen and Nadia Kounang, CNN The US Environmental Protection Agency issued health advisories Wednesday for common “forever chemicals” that are found in hundreds of household items and pollute drinking water systems across the country. The update is based on the most recent science, which suggest that these chemicals are much more hazardous to
Continue Reading SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a Canadian bicyclist who was raising money for his granddaughter’s kidney transplant with a long-distance ride has died from injuries suffered when he was struck by a truck driver in South Dakota. Jean-Pierre Petit, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, was hit from behind by the cargo truck Thursday while riding
Continue Reading By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says new DNA testing shows that a man acquitted at retrial of murdering a woman more than 30 years ago almost certainly committed the crime. Broward County State Attorney Harold Pryor said Wednesday that new DNA testing links 58-year-old Robert Hayes to
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By Preston Fore and Alta Spells, CNN Three weeks after the Horry County, South Carolina Council voted to designate June as Pride Month, the council voted unanimously to rescind the resolution that proclaimed support and acceptance of the LGTBQ+ community. The resolution passed unanimously as part of the county’s consensus agenda on May 17. Councilman
Continue ReadingCNN, FAMILY PHOTOS (FROM JOY BLACK, FROM BUNNY DRUEKE), U.S. DEFENSE DEPT., RADIO FREE EUROPE , RADIO LIBERTY, POOL, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs on Wednesday said European leaders must not be deterred by a fear of provoking Russian President Vladimir Putin and the international
Continue Reading RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A city and two law enforcement agencies in a North Carolina county will pay $336,000 to a group of plaintiffs in a settlement stemming from a 2020 get-out-the-vote rally in which peaceful demonstrators were pepper-sprayed. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer A lawyer representing Dan Snyder told Congress the Washington Commanders owner will not testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the team’s workplace conduct. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform explaining
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The governor of a key eastern Ukrainian city is acknowledging that Russian forces are advancing in heavy fighting. But he says the Ukrainian military is “holding back the enemy from three sides” in Sievierodonetsk. As fighting remains fierce in the eastern Donbas region,
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The governor of a key eastern Ukrainian city is acknowledging that Russian forces are advancing in heavy fighting. But he says the Ukrainian military is “holding back the enemy from three sides” in Sievierodonetsk. As fighting remains fierce in the eastern Donbas region,
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una mina de carbón situada en una zona remota de Rusia está expulsando enormes cantidades de un gas de efecto invernadero muy potente en lo que se ha descrito como la “mayor” fuga de metano jamás detectada en una sola instalación. La mina Raspadskya, situada en la región de Kemerovo, en
Continue Reading By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles district attorney told a jury Nipsey Hussle’s fatal shooting was premeditated by the man charged with killing the Grammy Award-winning rapper outside his clothing store three years ago. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said during his opening statement Wednesday that there’s
Continue ReadingBy Paul Vercammen, CNN Five friends’ celebrated photo taken every five years at the same California lake is out for the world to see despite one man’s recent cancer scare. They took photo No. 9 on Wednesday, 40 years after they shot the first in 1982 at a prefabricated cabin at Copco Lake along the
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The antiviral medication Paxlovid appears to be most effective in people whose age or underlying health puts them at high risk for becoming severely ill with Covid-19, but it appears to be less effective for average-risk adults, drugmaker Pfizer reported. The news is “good timing, because there is a lot of
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs on Wednesday said European leaders must not be deterred by a fear of provoking Russian President Vladimir Putin and the international community must not pressure Ukraine into making concessions to end the war. In an exclusive interview with CNN in Washington, DC, Rinkēvičs also outlined Latvia’s
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