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By Soyoung Kim Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — A local nonprofit made a Gresham boy’s costume dreams come true just in time for Halloween. They added some magic to the 6-year-old’s wheelchair, based on his favorite movie character. Volunteers worked overnight to put the final touches on one of
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Hours before news broke on Thursday that he had completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk wrote an open letter to advertisers stressing that he doesn’t want the platform to become a “free-for-all hellscape.” But that attempt at reassuring the advertising industry, which makes up the vast majority
Continue ReadingBy Paul Drewes Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — While U.S. Supreme Court justices debate the legality of college admission programs that take race into account – in order to expand educational diversity, diversity is something students already experience at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “I came to UH for
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Families are arriving for the beginning of the two-day sentencing hearing for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz. The hearing opens Tuesday with the families of the 17 people he shot and killed getting the chance after nearly five years to address him directly. The 17
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un hombre de 42 años está acusado de atacar a Paul Pelosi, el esposo de la presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, la semana pasada. Se espera que David DePape, el hombre que presuntamente atacó a Paul Pelosi, comparezca en un tribunal de San Francisco este martes para
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN Carrying the weight of a child prodigy tag can be daunting, though clearly not for Atthaya Thitikul. Five years after bursting onto the scene as golf’s youngest ever champion, the 19-year-old Thai took her meteoric rise to new heights to become the women’s world No. 1 on Monday. Thitikul leapfrogged Ko
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Rep. Liz Cheney returned to the campaign trail Tuesday night, receiving a standing ovation more than 1,600 miles from her Wyoming home — and a world away from the Republican politics that have been her family’s lifeblood. She will be leaving office in two months, following a
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ROME (AP) — A court in Sicily on Tuesday convicted 91 defendants of roles in a organized crime scheme that bilked the European Union of some 5 million euros (dollars) in subsidies for grazing land on the Mediterranean island. The reading of the verdicts and sentences took so long, the court in Patti began announcing
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — A court in Sicily on Tuesday convicted 91 defendants of roles in a organized crime scheme that bilked the European Union of some 5 million euros (dollars) in subsidies for grazing land on the Mediterranean island. The reading of the verdicts and sentences took so long, the court in Patti began announcing
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — The pilot of a helicopter that crashed on a remote Hawaii lava field during a sunset tour in June told investigators that the engine had been swapped out but three earlier flights that day were normal. The National Transportation Safety Board
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Hours before news broke on Thursday that he had completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk wrote an open letter to advertisers stressing that he doesn’t want the platform to become a “free-for-all hellscape.” But that attempt at reassuring the advertising industry, which makes up
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister is facing criticism for describing migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats as an “invasion.” Home Secretary Suella Braverman used the term while defending conditions at a processing center for new arrivals where some 4,000 people have been held in a facility
Continue Reading By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian truckers supportive of President Jair Bolsonaro blocked hundreds of roads early Tuesday to protest his election loss to former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since the leftist da Silva’s’s victory Sunday night, many truck drivers have jammed traffic in areas across the country
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says that most flood victims have returned to their homes, with only a small portion still living in makeshift camps in the worst-hit, southern Sindh province. The country’s disaster management agency says the latest data shows that slightly less than 50,000 people are currently staying in
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Up to 1,600 fans of the teams that qualified for this year’s World Cup are being recruited for an all expenses-paid trip to Qatar to sing in the opening ceremony and stay for at least two weeks promoting positive social media content about the soccer tournament
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say one person was fatally shot and two others injured early Tuesday at a private party attended by members of the rap group Migos. Police would not identify the person killed, only describing him as a Black man in his late 20s. Houston Police Lt. Ronnie Willkens said the man
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CNN, KINT By Amir Vera, Rosa Flores, Priscilla Alvarez and Gustavo Valdes, CNN Federal agents shot pepper balls at Venezuelan migrants who were protesting along the Rio Grande River International Boundary near downtown El Paso, Texas, on Monday after an agent was injured, according to US Customs and Border Protection. The agency issued a statement
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business If a recession is looming, you wouldn’t know it from looking at Uber’s business. Uber on Tuesday reported $8.3 billion in revenue for the three months ending in September, a 72% increase from the prior year, fueled by strong demand for rides and meal deliveries even as inflation and recession
Continue ReadingBy Lacey Beasley Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Mental health experts at Altapointe were at Monday’s standoff, and they tried to talk the man out of his car. MPD goes through specific mental health training to prepare them for situations like this. “We had mental health professionals here,” said
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Uber are surging before the market open Tuesday after the ride-hailing company gave a fourth-quarter forecast indicating that consumers are growing increasingly more comfortable using the service now that pandemic fears have mostly eased. Uber Technologies Inc. announced that it foresees fourth-quarter gross bookings rising 23% to
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