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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A severe lack of affordable housing has prompted Oregon lawmakers to consider chipping away at a 1970s law that made the state a national leader in leveraging land use policy to prevent suburban sprawl and conserve nature and agriculture. The so-called urban growth boundary, a sacred cow of Oregon’s liberal politics, helped to cement the state’s …

KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — Zelenskyy dice que 31.000 soldados ucranianos han muerto desde que comenzó la invasión rusa.

HARARE, Zimbabue (AP) — Un turista australiano ha desaparecido en el Parque Nacional de las Cataratas de Victoria en Zimbabue, informó el portavoz del departamento de parques del país africano. Tinashe Farawo, vocero de la Autoridad de Parques y Vida Silvestre de Zimbabue, dijo a The Associated Press que el turista desapareció en el vasto bosque el viernes. “Tenemos a …

Trump wins South Carolina, easily beating Haley in her home state and closing in on GOP nomination CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump won South Carolina’s Republican primary on Saturday, easily beating former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in her home state and further consolidating his path to a third straight GOP nomination. Trump has now swept every contest that counted …

PHOENIX (AP) — About 1.4 million customers in Arizona will be paying more for electricity now that regulators have approved a rate hike proposed by the state’s largest utility, and an extra fee for customers with rooftop solar systems is prompting more criticism. The average monthly bill for Arizona Public Service Co. residential customers will increase by about $10 to …

JACKSON, Ohio (AP) — A small plane crash near an airport in southern Ohio has claimed the lives of three people, authorities said. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a preliminary investigation indicates that a Piper PA 32 Cherokee Six crashed into a field about a quarter-mile north of the James A. Rhodes Airport in Jackson County shortly after 12:30 …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers in West Virginia want to ban transgender youth at risk for self-harm or suicide from accessing medical interventions such as hormone therapy. The GOP-controlled Legislature banned such interventions last year while allowing the self-harm and suicide exception. Now, a group of lawmakers want to eliminate that narrow definition, which requires parental consent and …

Carol Capps runs regularly in the forested area of the University of Georgia campus, where the body of a 22-year-old nursing student was found earlier this week after she was reported missing from a morning run. Capps, 24, said the trails around Lake Herrick always seemed safe, a place where she could get away from traffic and go into the …

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its lawmakers after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war roil British politics. The party said on Saturday that Lee Anderson was suspended after he refused to apologize for remarks made about Khan in a television …

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Los homenajes llovieron el sábado para Flaco, el entrañable búho real euroasiático que se convirtió en la historia más conmovedora de Nueva York tras escapar de su recinto en el zoológico de Central Park y volar libre por Manhattan. Flaco fue hallado muerto en una acera de Nueva York el viernes por la noche tras estrellarse …