The NBA will honor Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven others who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash in California with special uniforms and patches during NBA All-Star Weekend. Players in the NBA Rising Stars game and the All-Star game will wear uniforms with the Nos. 2 and 24 on them — the numbers
Continue Reading(CNN) — The Senate on Friday voted to block any witnesses from being called in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, a decision that marks the beginning of the end of the third Senate trial for a president in US history. The Senate voted 49-51 to defeat a motion to allow subpoenas for witnesses and documents,
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Click here for updates on this story SCAPPOOSE, OR (KPTV ) — A driver was rescued Friday morning after they crashed into a creek along Highway 30. Scappoose Fire and Columbia RivA driver was rescued Friday morning after they crashed into a creek along Highway 30. Scappoose Fire and Columbia River Fire & Rescue responded
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday highlighted US commitment to security assistance and diplomacy with Ukraine — two matters that have been called into question by facts that have come to light throughout the impeachment process that continues to play out in Washington. Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, the top US
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Anyone who knows the work of Martin Scorsese knows the director loves a good food scene. But there’s one Pablo Helman will never forget. It was Thanksgiving Day in 2015. The cast and crew of “Silence,” a historical drama starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver, were in Taiwan. By pure luck, Helman, a 30-year veteran
Continue Reading Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Friday if there are no witness testimonies in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that it is considered “a job only half done.” “If I was advising the United States Senate, I would say, ‘If you don’t respond to 75 percent of the American
Continue Reading Idiotic TV shows and all the latest apps bumming you out on the 21st century? Ready for some “me time” on the world’s remotest islands? Forget golden sands and swaying palms — the reality of solitude is different as these distant landfalls demonstrate. 1. Tristan da Cunha 1,750 miles from South Africa The British island
Continue Reading GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Coast Guard officer suspected in terror plot is sentenced to more than 13 years in prison on firearms and drug charges.
Continue Reading Which muscled Alpha male with an expensive toys will reign supreme in “Fast and Furious 9”? I can’t say because that’s pretty much the entire plot of the film, as you will see in the just-released trailer. In this ninth installment of the “Fast” saga, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto goes toe to toe with his
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The Dow and the wider stock market fell sharply on Friday, as fears about the economic impact of the coronavirus took hold. At its lowest point Friday the Dow fell as much as 690 points , ending the day down 603 points, or 2.1%. It was biggest one-day drop since August. The S&P 500 closed
Continue Reading Nobody was injured when authorities fired gunshots at a woman who breached two security checkpoints with her SUV on the outer perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago retreat, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office said. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw confirmed during a Friday afternoon news conference that the suspect, Hannah Roemhild, breached the checkpoints,
Continue Reading President Donald Trump rescinded restrictions on the US military’s ability to use landmines, weapons that have been banned by more than 160 countries due to their history of killing and wounding civilians, the White House said Friday. “The President has canceled the Obama administration’s policy to prohibit United States military forces from employing anti-personnel landmines
Continue Reading After 16 years of incredible discoveries, NASA’s retiring Spitzer Space Telescope is going gently into that good night, slumbering against a background of stars — the very ones it helped study. The infrared telescope completed science activities on Tuesday, relayed back data on Wednesday and on Thursday will enter a safe hibernation mode thanks to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND, CA (KPIX ) — Could trailers be a new temporary fix for California’s growing homelessness crisis? Critics say they are just going to cause more problems with illegally parked vehicles on city streets. Homeless residents that have talked to KPIX say they like the idea. A trailer
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROCK ISLAND, IL (WQAD) — As a way to celebrate their 100th day in school for the year, students at Denkmann Elementary School dreamed up what life will be like when they’re 100 years old. On Wednesday, January 29, kids were invited to dress up like they were
Continue Reading Oil giant Exxon Mobil reported a nearly $6 billion profit for the fourth quarter on Friday, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy Wall Street. Earnings were down more than 5% from a year ago. Exxon and other petroleum giants have been struggling lately as crude prices have fallen. Shares of Exxon fell more than 4%
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROCK ISLAND, IL (WQAD) — As a way to celebrate their 100th day in school for the year, students at Denkmann Elementary School dreamed up what life will be like when they’re 100 years old. On Wednesday, January 29, kids were invited to dress up like they were
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Rapper Mase is calling out Sean “Diddy” Combs. Mase, who had multiple hits with Combs on the mogul’s Bad Boy Records in the late 1990s, posted a photo on Friday of a tweet from rapper Meek Mill that referenced “young black kids in slave contracts in the music business.” Mase wrote a long note in
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — US declares public health emergency from new virus, Trump to bar entry of foreign nationals who pose transmission risk.
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(CNN Español) — El volcán Chillán en Chile registró una erupción con una gigante columna de cenizas que alcanzó los 3.500 metros de altura, motivo por el que la Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI), decretó alerta naranja este jueves. Las autoridades indicaron que la explosión no produjo ondas de choque, no
Continue Reading Michael Bloomberg plowed a little more than $200 million of his vast fortune into his presidential bid at the end of last year — a snapshot of the staggering investment the former New York mayor made in the early weeks of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, new filings show. Nearly three-quarters of the
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A range of high-tech Nike shoes which have revolutionized running have escaped a ban, but advanced prototypes and trainers with thick soles and several carbon fiber plates to boost their spring are to be outlawed in competition in a bid to preserve the integrity of athletics. Times have been toppling in long distance running races
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The SS Cotopaxi vanished in 1925 and for decades, people speculated that it may have been a victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. It turns out, the ill-fated freighter is at the bottom of the ocean about 35 miles from St. Augustine, Florida, according to scientists, who say they’ve identified the ship. The site is
Continue Reading Vice President Mike Pence was confronted by an emergency room doctor and health care advocate about the state of Medicare and Medicaid while at a campaign stop in Iowa on Thursday. “I’m worried about plans they talked about last week of maybe cutting the Medicare and then the rollout today of cutting Medicaid. I work
Continue Reading Cincinnati Zoo’s most beloved animal, Fiona the hippo, has made her Super Bowl prediction. She appeared to pick the Kansas City Chiefs, but in a rather inartful way: She yawned and soggy lettuce flew out in front of the team’s logo. “She has picked the underdog three years in a row,” Cincinnati Zoo’s Communications Director
Continue Reading The final vote to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial may be delayed until next week, according to Republican and Democratic sources. At this point, it seems unlikely that a final vote to acquit Trump will occur Friday night, but definitive details of the Senate trial’s timing remain extremely fluid. LIVE UPDATES: Impeachment
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