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By Soyoung Kim Click here for updates on this story SALMON CREEK, Washington (KPTV) — People are trying to plan for what comes next after a fire destroyed an industrial building in Salmon Creek. Officials said at least seven businesses were impacted by the fire. “Seeing everything you work for, you’re just in shock,” Buddy
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By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killed at least 13 people during a memorial service. A former Taliban police official was among those killed and more than 30 were wounded in the attack. Local authorities later said a suicide bomber hit on
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH and COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — The European economy has contracted slightly at the end of last year and beginning of 2023. The revised figures released Thursday by the European Union’s statistics agency underline the impact of the loss of Russian natural gas and high inflation on consumer spending.
Continue Reading BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s foreign ministry has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of its embassy positions in Bucharest by 51, bringing it in line with the size of Romania’s embassy staff in Moscow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that because some of the jobs at the Russian Embassy are
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — US companies wary about their economic prospects are battening down the hatches. Recent job market data shows more and more businesses have taken to “labor hoarding” and maintaining headcounts even as demand softens. Hiring has scaled back and so have layoffs (to an extent), as firms try to
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Spaceflights lasting six months or longer take a toll on the brains of astronauts, and crew members may need to wait at least three years before returning to space, according to new research. Scientists compared the brain scans of 30 astronauts taken before spaceflights lasting two weeks, six months
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ, ROB GILLIES and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On air quality maps, purple signifies the worst of it. In reality, it’s a thick, hazardous haze that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange. With weather systems
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday, assaulting at least one in a stroller repeatedly. The children between 22 months and 3 years old suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults
Continue ReadingBy Corderro McMurry Click here for updates on this story CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KRIS) — According to the Department of Homeland Security, the number of daily encounters along the U-S Mexico border has remained low after Title 42 was lifted. Eduardo Canales, Director of the South Texas Human Rights Center in Falfurrias, said there is
Continue Reading By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court’s liberals in affirming
Continue ReadingBy Davon Taylor Click here for updates on this story CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KRIS) — Tuesday was a busy day for 15-year-old Paul Kane Maldonado. The Ray High School student spent the start of his summer vacation selling bottled water at the corner of Port Avenue and Arlington Drive to raise money to take his
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — In the world of sport, there are many reasons for games to be suspended or postponed. Fans are used to seeing games stopped for downfalls of rain, heavy snow, injuries or even, as seen in recent days, smoke from wildfires. But have you ever heard of bees stopping play?
Continue Reading By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner is stepping down after four years in the role. Commissioner Michael S. Harrison’s departure was announced Thursday morning at a news conference held on short notice at City Hall. Harrison was appointed commissioner in 2019 and granted a five-year contract, which would have ended
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body have accused Israel of “delegitimizing and silencing civil society” by outlawing Palestinian human rights groups and labeling their members as “terrorists.” The findings came in the annual report by the Human Rights Council’s “Commission of Inquiry.” The commission,
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Alabama officials to redraw the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district to account for the fact that the state is 27% Black. The decision – that affords additional opportunities for minority voters to elect the
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Cuba has agreed to allow China to build a spying facility on the island that could allow the Chinese to eavesdrop on electronic communications across the southeastern US, two sources familiar with the intelligence told CNN. The US learned about the plan in the last several weeks, the first
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El vicecanciller de Cuba, Carlos Fernández de Cossio, negó este jueves que China esté instalando una base de espionaje en Cuba, luego de que información de inteligencia de Estados Unidos indicara que la isla había accedido a la construcción. En una conferencia de prensa en La Habana este jueves, Fernández de
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of GameStop have plunged after the company fired CEO Matthew Furlong, the former Amazon executive who was brought in two years ago to turn the struggling video game retailer around. The company gave no reason for the dismissal and named Ryan Cohen, the company’s biggest investor, as executive
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the family of a Medicaid recipient who seeks to file a civil rights lawsuit against a state-owned nursing home, arguing that it violated the rights of their relative who has since died of dementia. The court’s ruling reaffirmed
Continue ReadingCNN By Nicole Goodkind and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Some of the worst air quality levels on record on the East Coast are impacting consumer shopping patterns and driving air purifier stocks higher. People are rushing to buy air filters, humidifiers and high-quality masks on Amazon amid Canadian wildfires that have smothered
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