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Cheng "Charlie" Saephan holds display check before speaking during a news conference where it was revealed that he was one of the winners of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot at the Oregon Lottery headquarters on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Salem, Ore.

Winner of $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancer

April 29, 2024, 2:14pm Latest News Updated 2 days ago

One of the winners of a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot last month is an immigrant from Laos who has had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week. Read story

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in New York.

Stock market today: Wall Street rises to start a week full of earnings reports and a Fed meeting

April 29, 2024, 2:00pm Business Updated 2 days ago

U.S. stocks ticked higher Monday to begin a week packed with potentially market-moving reports. Read story

Deepfake of principal’s voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm

April 29, 2024, 10:49am Business

The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice. Read story

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Monday, April 29, 2024.

Ahead of visit to Israel, US’s Blinken presses Hamas to accept new proposal for Gaza cease-fire

April 29, 2024, 7:50am Latest News Updated 2 days ago

The United States stepped up pressure for a cease-fire deal in Gaza on Monday as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in the Gaza’s southern town of Rafah, according to hospital… Read story

Inslee rebuffs calls by gubernatorial candidates to buy diesel ferries

April 29, 2024, 7:46am Latest News

Gov. Jay Inslee is rebuffing calls to rethink the state’s insistence on building new electric ferries even as leading candidates to succeed him are saying they’d consider buying diesel vessels to ease the ongoing ferry system crisis. Read story

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” moderates a panel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 16, 2017. In the past few weeks, NBC reversed a decision to hire former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a political contributor following a revolt by some of its best-known personalities, including Maddow, and others.

April 29, 2024, 6:02am Business

This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Read story

A labor of self-love: Inner Beauty in U aims to mentor women impacted by abuse

Inner Beauty in U founder Yolanda Merriweather sits with her 12-year-old dog, Ally, for a portrait on Tuesday at Merriweather’s apartment.

Vancouver’s Yolanda Merriweather has had a complicated journey with self-love — one that she hopes can inspire others. It took her years to heal from the racism she experienced as a child and domestic violence she faced in a relationship. But rather than letting her past define her, she decided… Read story