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House Passes Legislation to Improve Air Travel, Sending Bill to Biden’s Desk
Author: Kayla Guo
The bipartisan vote to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration also greenlit measures to strengthen consumer protections and address safety and work force issues plaguing the skies.
How the Debates Trump and Biden Agreed to Break With Tradition
Author: Maggie Astor
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have agreed to debate each other, following a decades-old tradition. But the similarities with previous debates are limited.

Clark County Talk

Volunteers Needed to Spruce up Parker’s Landing Historical Park
Author: LocalTalk Contributor

Submitted by Rene Carroll Volunteers with a love of gardening and history will gather to spruce up Parker’s Landing Historical Park on Tuesday, May 21 from 3 p.m.- 5 p.m.  The work is to prepare for the many visitors coming to celebrate the third annual Parkersville Day, Saturday, June 1 from 12 p.m. to 3 […]

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Washington State News

NFL's top 25 games of 2024
(Photo credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports) Christmas Day for NFL marketing and ticket sales departments finally arrived Wednesday with the release of the 2024 season schedule. With subplots and peripheral angles multiplying before our eyes - hello, Netflix, welcome to NFL holiday football broadcasts - Field Level Media's football-minded contributors assembled the top 25 games of 2024. 24. Cardinals at Jets, TBD: We're
Mariners reinstate OF Dominic Canzone from injured list
(Photo credit: Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports) The Seattle Mariners reinstated outfielder Dominic Canzone from the 10-day injured list on Wednesday. Canzone, 26, has been on the injured list since April 15 with an AC joint sprain in his left shoulder. He sustained the injury crashing into the wall in left field in Seattle on April 14. Canzone batted .219 with three homers and six RBIs in 14 games before the injury. He hi

Portland Business News

Providence CEO Rod Hochman to retire at end of the year
Author: Marissa Nall
He will transition to an advisory role for the seven-state network of 51 hospitals and more than 1,000 clinics beginning in 2025.
Aequitas prosecutors reveal dramatic stories from Oregon's largest fraud trial
Author: Elizabeth Hayes
A pivotal Aequitas witness gets a terminal cancer diagnosis. Marathon trial prep sessions. Six weeks of harrowing testimony. In an exclusive interview, U.S. prosecutors on how they secured guilty verdicts against high-level Aequitas executives.

Columbian Newspaper

Opening statements set to kick off second criminal trial for Sen. Bob Menendez
Author: LARRY NEUMEISTER and MIKE CATALINI, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — After a jury was chosen in the federal bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, opening statements were to occur Wednesday afternoon as prosecutors seek to convince a jury that the longtime powerful Democrat was willing to sell his influence to benefit three businessmen in return for cash, gold bars and a luxury car.

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U.S. cites ‘misuse’ of AI by China and others in closed-door bilateral talks
Author: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — High-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns over “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva, the White House said Wednesday.

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Slovakia’s populist prime minister shot multiple times in attempted assassination
Author: Associated Press

PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday after a political event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe.

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