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How water curtailment could impact the local economy
“It would effectively shut down the economy of Eastern Idaho.”Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Water districts in Eastern Idaho…
Continue Reading“It would effectively shut down the economy of Eastern Idaho.”Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Water districts in Eastern Idaho…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett’s two daughters are suing their brother, alleging he mishandled and failed to disclose some of their father’s…
Continue ReadingSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Two people have been killed in a single-engine plane crash in Northern California. The Alpine County Sheriff’s…
Continue ReadingBy Ben Wedeman, Muhammad Darwish and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — The fate of the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza is crucial to…
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Visa applicants from Africa who want to visit Europe’s Schengen Area face far higher rejection rates than people from…
Continue ReadingBy MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar has warned that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of six U.N. agencies and three international humanitarian organizations issued…
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with allegedly threatening an FBI special agent who had been involved in an investigation…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay are tied for the lead after one round of the U.S. Open at…
Continue ReadingBy NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Heavy rains lashed much of Chile, damaging homes, flooding roads, knocking out power and…
Continue ReadingThe Bonneville County Commissioners are asking the Governor to intervene and stop a potential economic disaster because of the curtailment order.…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police say a Louisiana woman has been found dead in her home and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal investigators say a loss of engine power due to poor maintenance caused a 2022 helicopter crash in New Mexico that…
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police had a pattern of violating people’s rights, from unjustified deadly force to…
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges are deciding whether a redistricting lawsuit claiming a state…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of throwing a pipe bomb at the Massachusetts headquarters of a group called The Satanic Temple has pleaded…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has passed its own version of a state spending plan that rejects…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre say they will petition the Oklahoma Supreme…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has opened a trial run allowing a limited number of people to apply to renew their passports online. Windows…
Continue ReadingCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in New Hampshire has died on the House floor, but the effort by New England’s…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Legislature is signaling that it could cancel a $400 million loan payment to…
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Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn” has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts…
Continue ReadingBy JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was convicted of accepting bribes to let…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional…
Continue ReadingA Jackson man is in jail accused of stealing tools and supplies from multiple construction sites. …
Continue ReadingThe Rexburg LGBTQ+ community is preparing for its annual pride celebration this Saturday. Local News 8 has learned at least one group of protesters…
Continue ReadingLANSING, Mich. (AP) — An attorney charged in connection with an effort to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan after the…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Cannabis regulators in Massachusetts have issued an administrative order that will allow pot…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Former Illinois standout Terrence Shannon Jr., a potential first-round NBA draft pick, was found not guilty…
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! It pays to keep workers happy — for the good of the country as well as the company. A new report…
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Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate has approved a bill that would ban school…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press A watchdog group says the Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies around the site of a…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. bishops want to assure Native Catholics that they don’t need to feel torn between…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a shootout at a New Jersey hotel ended with a murder suspect dead and two police officers…
Continue ReadingBy Jade Gordon, Anissa Carby and Navya Shukla, CNN (CNN) — A former Mississippi police officer was sentenced to a year in federal prison…
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian military hospital would offer medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war under a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press Dozens of tourists say they became ill after visiting a popular Arizona tourist destination known for…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden is kicking off her husband’s outreach to older voters, an effort blending rallies and phone banks with…
Continue ReadingBy DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint about the Abbott Nutrition…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s chief of staff has argued to an influential group of CEOs that the…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a bystander killed during a 2021 police chase in Minneapolis is suing the city and alleging that dangerous…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump used the word “horrible” in talking about Milwaukee — the…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press FASANO, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the…
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Newly released interrogation video shows Florida woman Susan Lorincz telling detectives she heard her neighbor…
Continue ReadingEDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council will vote on a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary…
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The lead singer of the Motown group the Four Tops has filed a federal lawsuit against Ascension Macomb…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are holding a vote as part of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s effort…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…
Continue ReadingDIXON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of wounding three sheriff’s deputies during a standoff at a home in Illinois possessed multiple…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Army health expert told a panel investigating a mass shooting by a reservist experiencing…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Greunberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance…
Continue ReadingLIMESTONE, Tenn. (AP) — A zoo in Tennessee says an antelope choked on a squeezable food pouch and died over the weekend. Brights Zoo is a…
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was seen driving at a “high rate of speed” just before he rear-ended another…
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal and advocacy group, is laying off employees. The union that represents workers…
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Phoenix Police Department has for years violated the constitutional rights of residents…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Chinese “overconcentrated supply chains” pose a…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is defending prisoner swaps that free Americans…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of top…
Continue ReadingThe program is teaching several topics like robotics, artificial intelligence, and cyber…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Authorities are investigating a blast caused by an explosive device that rocked a Bridgeport, Connecticut,…
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police violate people’s rights, discriminate against…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British coroner has criticised the U.S. government over a lack of training for diplomatic personnel prior to a road accident in…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy submarine has pulled into Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of…
Continue ReadingSTARKENBERG, Germany (AP) — There’s a new big-hitter in the world of soccer soothsayers and this one is going for a win for Germany to open the…
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Ivana Kottasová and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — A group of international human rights lawyers has accused Russia of…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A series of storms flowing from the Gulf of Mexico swamped South Florida with flash floods that stalled cars,…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The United States has granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver that…
Continue ReadingNEEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Twenty-three sets of twins have graduated from a Massachusetts middle school, making up about 10% of the eighth-grade class.…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera sold 72% of available tickets this season, up from 66% in 2022-23. Box…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates eased again this week, though the latest pullback leaves the average rate on a…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in…
Continue ReadingCNN By Carlos Suarez, Denise Royal and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A former Jacksonville, Florida, teacher who said she was fired for displaying a…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. Wife of the late…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Andrea Yates, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of…
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A proposed cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is raising hopes…
Continue ReadingBy TERESA MEDRANO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain and Turkey have called on the international community to stop “looking the other way”…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police shot and killed a man Wednesday who they say was wielding a handgun and threatening people. Police Chief…
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — A global gathering of comedians was taking place Friday in an unlikely venue: the Vatican. Pope Francis…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — New details from federal investigations into the crash of a gasoline delivery truck that…
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The Atlanta Falcons were stripped of a fifth-round pick in next year’s draft on Thursday for violating the…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Scientists say a large number of whales is visiting the waters off New England, and the group includes an…
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) — The Ukraine men’s soccer team was made to feel at home for its first practice in…
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — It’s a popular notion that men eat more meat than women. Now, new research says it’s…
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, Christian Edwards and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means the abortion pill mifepristone remains available,…
Continue ReadingBy CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A power company in Puerto Rico has restored electricity to most areas affected…
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Bishop and Jose Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A 43-year-old American man died after he and another US national were electrocuted while in a…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A watchdog report says a Minnesota state agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone, a pill used in the most common…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a man who wants to trademark the suggestive phrase…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims in Mecca in Saudi Arabia are circling the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site,…
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