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Congress says its wants to avoid a shutdown. But the House and Senate are moving even further apart.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown — the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government but the House slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of finishing by Saturday’s deadline.With days remaining before a federal closure, the stakes are rising with no resolution at hand. A shutdown would furlough millions of federal employees, leave the military without pay, disrupt air travel and cut off vital safety net services, and it would be politically punishing to lawmakers whose job it is to fund government.President Joe Biden, who earlier this year reached a budget deal with Speaker Kevin McCarthy that became law, believes it’s up to the House Republicans to deliver.“A deal is a deal,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. “This is for them to fix.”Late Tuesday, the Senate pushed ahead in sweeping bipartisan fashion to break the stalemate...

Oregon Gov. Kotek directs state police to crack down on fentanyl distribution

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said Tuesday she has directed state police to launch new strategies aimed at disrupting the fentanyl supply chain and holding sellers of the frequently deadly drug accountable. Kotek said in a statement that she made the announcement at a Tuesday meeting of her task force created to revitalize downtown Portland. “I want all Oregonians to know that the state is moving forward with several new fentanyl strategic enforcement and disruption strategies,” Kotek’s statement said.The plans include increasing and reallocating state police staff to local drug enforcement teams, holding trainings with the Oregon Department of Justice to address potential biases and avoid unlawful searches, and leading interagency patrols that emphasize intercepting fentanyl using drug dogs and detectives, Kotek said.She said a pilot project using a data-driven approach to identifying drug- and alcohol-impaired drivers would also be extended.During one weekend in ...

9 years later, families of 43 missing Mexican students march to demand answers in emblematic case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Chanting from one to 43, relatives of students abducted nine years ago counted out the number of the missing youths as they marched through Mexico City Tuesday to demand answers to one of Mexico’s most infamous human rights cases.With President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term ending next year, family members face not only the prospect of a ninth year of not knowing what happened to their sons but fears that the next administration will start the error-plagued investigation over from scratch yet again.In 2014, a group of students were attacked by municipal police in the southern city of Iguala, Guerrero, who handed them over to a local drug gang that apparently killed them and burned their bodies. Since the Sept. 26 attack, only three of their remains have been identified.After an initial coverup, last year a government truth commission concluded that local, state and federal authorities colluded with the gang to murder the students in what it called...

An Abe Lincoln photo made during his 1858 ascendancy has been donated to his museum in Illinois

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and presented one of the copies to a man severely injured while testing a cannon for Lincoln’s campaign rally. As a small measure of compassion, Lincoln presented one version of the image to the injured man, Charles Lame, who overcame a deadly infection in an arm torn up by the blast with the help of flesh-eating maggots. The tale provides an unlikely, ghastly background to the original 1858 ambrotype created during the future nation-saving Civil War president’s ascendancy, an image which the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added to its collection, officials said Tuesday. “Original images of Abraham Lincoln are extraordinarily rare, and images with a fascinating back story like this are even more rare,” said Christina Shutt, executive director of the library and museum. “Lincoln...

2 Aurora city workers credited with saving 1-year-old boy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

AURORA, Ill. — Two Aurora city workers were honored tonight with saving the life of a one-year-old baby.The city honored Daniel Chavez and Josh Elrod at the city council meeting on Tuesday. Pat Tomasulo and friends raise over $600K for rare pain disorder at this year’s Laugh Your Face Off Chavez and Elrod are credited with saving little Julian's life last week. The water and sewer workers heard a woman yelling for help while out on routine duties.It was Julian's mother crying that her baby wasn't breathing. Chavez and Elrod jumped in to help, called 911 and performed CPR.The city employees said it was because of CPR training that they were able to help."I'd like to thank our management for putting us through this training," Josh Elrod said. "It helps. You never think you're going to need it until you do."

Slow moving closed upper level low pressure system to bring another day of unsettled weather and scattered thunderstorms before drier weather and a significant warm-up gets underway in September's final days and the opening of October

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

Model forecasts starting 7 AM Wednesday through 7 PM WednesdayTHE HARVEST MOON ARRIVES THURSDAYThe Harvest Moon is the name given to the full moon that happens closest to the Fall Equinox. This particular full moon's rise and set coincides closely with the sunset and sunrise. In ancient times, the full moon this time of year helped farmers harvest crops late into the evening. This is also the last "super moon" of the year—which is when the moon is slightly closer to the Earth and appears 30% brighter and about 14% larger in the sky. If you want to catch the sky show, this year's Full Harvest Moon rises on Thursday at 6:32 PM and reaches it's peak at 4:59 AM on Friday morning. The moon will set at 6:51 AM on Friday.ONLY FOUR DAYS LEFT IN SEPTEMBERThe month currently ranks 13th warmest of the past 153 years, dating back to 1871. Rainfall is also running a slight surplus.Chicago weather history suggests 58 of past 81 Octobers (or about 72%) have produced at least one 80-degree or warme...

Two Twins make long-awaited return in win over Athletics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

Chris Paddack was just a few feet away from the mound, a few feet away from making a return that he had waited a year and a half for on Sunday when the skies opened. The rain intensified and instead of taking the mound, Paddack and the Twins headed inside to wait out a 50-minute rain delay. When the game resumed, it was Louie Varland, not Paddack, on the mound.Paddack’s long-awaited return had to wait until Tuesday, when he threw two innings in Tuesday’s 11-3 over the Oakland Athletics in the series opener at Target Field.The starter, who will be in a relief role for the remainder of the season, gave up a single to the first batter he had faced since May 8, 2022. He then proceeded to strike out the next three batters, touching 99 miles per hour on the radar gun.His next inning didn’t go quite as well. The 27-year-old allowed a single, home run, walk and double to the first four batters, producing three runs and prompting a trip to the mound by pitching coach Pete Maki. He then settl...

Police investigating serious Rotterdam crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A serious car crash is under investigation in Rotterdam. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! The crash took place after 9 p.m. Tuesday in the westbound lanes of I-890. The road was closed at Exit 8 while police worked the scene.

Cohoes approves to review public EMS recommendation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

COHOES, N.Y. (NEWS10) — On Tuesday, Cohoes Common Council voted to move forward and review a recommendation to bring back ambulance services to Cohoes and not renew its current contract with Ambulnz.During the meeting, Rainbow Doemel, a member of the EMS Task Force, explored three different emergency models before recommending that the local fire department take on all ambulance services.“And municipalities, I think, are no different, and so we’re finding a larger call volume, so what do we do with that? How do we handle it,” she said. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! According to the task force and Adam Biggs, 5th Ward Councilman for the City of Cohoes, the proposed model will take three years to implement.“We have a contract with Ambulnz for both ALS and BLS ambulances through April,” Biggs said. “So I imagine the timeline would begin in April with a slow transition over the next three years.”Even after the task force gave its...

SCOTUS conference to be held on NYS gun laws

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:49 GMT

WASHINGTON (NEWS10) -- The Supreme Court of the United States took action against New York State on the Concealed Carry Improvement Act. The act went into law in September, and it required several new steps in buying a gun in the state.Changes include background checks being done by the New York State Police for both the purchase of a gun and ammunition. Those who opposed the new law said it is unconstitutional. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called for a full Supreme Court conference on October 6. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul reacted to the ruling."They are dead set on placating their NRA donors, supporters, and we are the ones left to clean it up," she said. "We are working really hard to ensure that New Yorkers are safe."The governor also said that if the law is repealed, then New Yorkers will feel less safe in their homes and communities.