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Q & A With Sen. Kayse Jama, New Oregon Senate Majority Leader
Jama becomes first Somali-American to lead the Oregon Senate Democrats.
Oregon Tribe Has Hunting and Fishing Rights Restored Under a Long-Sought Court Ruling
The tribe was among the dozens that lost federal recognition in the 1950s and ‘60s under a policy of assimilation known as “termination.” Congress voted to re-recognize the tribe in 1977. But to have their land restored, the tribe had to agree to a federal court order that limited their hunting, fishing and gathering rights.
Forecasts Warn of Possible Winter Storms Across US During Thanksgiving Week
Two people died in the Pacific Northwest after a rapidly intensifying “bomb cyclone” hit the West Coast last Tuesday, bringing fierce winds that toppled trees and power lines and damaged homes and cars. Fewer than 25,000 people in the Seattle area were still without power Sunday evening.
Huge Number Of Illegal Guns In Portland Come From Licensed Dealers, New Report Shows
Local gun safety advocacy group argues for state-level licensing and regulation of firearm retailers.
Portland Parks & Recreation Wedding Reservations For Dates in 2025
In-person applications have priority starting Monday, January 6, at 8 a.m. ...
Grants up to $120,000 Educate About Local Environmental Projects
Application period for WA nonprofits open Jan. 7 ...
Literary Arts Opens New Building on SE Grand Ave
The largest literary center in the Western U.S. includes a new independent bookstore and café, event space, classrooms, staff offices...
Allen Temple CME Church Women’s Day Celebration
The Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, senior pastor/presiding elder, and First Lady Doris Mays Haynes are inviting the public to attend the...
Vote By Mail Tracking Act Passes House with Broad Support
The bill co-led by Congressman Mfume would make it easier for Americans to track their mail-in ballots; it advanced in the U.S. House...
Miami's playoff hopes nosedive as Alabama rises in the latest College Football Playoff rankings
Miami's playoff hopes took an all-but-final nosedive while Alabama's got a boost Tuesday night in the last rankings before the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is set next weekend. The Hurricanes (10-2) moved down six spots to No. 12 — the first team out of the projected...
Idaho’s ‘abortion trafficking’ law mostly can be enforced as lawsuit proceeds, court rules
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that most of Idaho's first-in-the-nation law that makes it illegal to help minors get an abortion without the consent of their parents can take effect while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality continues. The...
Anthony Robinson II scores career-high 29, Missouri rallies from 16-point halftime deficit to win
Anthony Robinson II scored a career-high 29 points, Mark Mitchell added 21 and Missouri overcame a 16-point halftime deficit to beat California 98-93 on Tuesday night in an SEC/ACC Challenge game. Robinson made 8 of 11 from the floor, 13 of 15 from the line and added six assists....
There's no rest for the well-traveled in the week's AP Top 25 schedule filled with marquee matchups
It wasn't long after Duke had pushed through Friday's win against Seattle that coach Jon Scheyer lamented a missing piece of the Blue Devils' recent schedule. “We need practice time,” Scheyer said. It's a plight facing a lot of ranked teams that criss-crossed the...
A Loan Shark in Your Pocket: Cellphone Cash Advance Apps
Fast-growing app usage leaves many consumers worse off. ...
America’s Healing Can Start with Family Around the Holidays
With the holiday season approaching, it seems that our country could not be more divided. That division has been perhaps the main overarching topic of our national conversation in recent years. And it has taken root within many of our own families. ...
Donald Trump Rides Patriarchy Back to the White House
White male supremacy, which Trump ran on, continues to play an outsized role in exacerbating the divide that afflicts our nation. ...
Why Not Voting Could Deprioritize Black Communities
President Biden’s Justice40 initiative ensures that 40% of federal investment benefits flow to disadvantaged communities, addressing deep-seated inequities. ...
New Jersey council says ban on 'props' can include 'performative' use of US flag, constitution
EDISON, New Jersey (AP) — A New Jersey township council's decision to bar people from using “props” — which officials say can include the U.S. flag and Constitution — when addressing the council has drawn protests and a warning from a free speech advocacy organization. The...
Jury deliberations begin in veteran Daniel Penny's trial over using chokehold on Jordan Neely
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors began deliberating and soon revisited some of their legal instructions Tuesday in the trial of a military veteran charged with using a fatal chokehold to subdue a New York subway rider whose behavior was alarming other passengers. The anonymous jury is...
Nearly 30% of US drugstores closed in one decade, study shows
Nearly three out of 10 U.S. drugstores that were open during the previous decade had closed by 2021, new research shows. Black and Latino neighborhoods were most vulnerable to the retail pharmacy closures, which can chip away at already-limited care options in those communities,...
Book Review: British novelist Naomi Wood is out with an astonishingly good short story collection
Naomi Wood, an English author not yet well known in the U.S., has written three historical novels, including the well-regarded “Mrs. Hemingway,” about the four wives of Ernest Hemingway. During the Covid lockdowns, when her kids were confined at home and she had less time to herself, she turned...
Book Review: 'Dead Air' tells history of night Orson Welles unleashed fake Martian invasion
Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn't like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' “The War of the Worlds” is the focus of William Elliott Hazelgrove's “Dead Air: The...
Drake will open his Australia tour the same day rival Kendrick Lamar performs at the Super Bowl
TORONTO (AP) — Drake has announced that his first tour of Australia in eight years will begin on the same date as rival Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance. The Toronto rapper announced the tour during a livestream Sunday night with Félix Lengyel, a Quebec streamer....
Judge to consider first lawsuit to overturn Missouri's near-total abortion ban
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates are asking a judge Wednesday to overturn Missouri’s...
Transgender rights case lands at Supreme Court amid debate over ban on medical treatments for minors
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday in just its second major transgender rights...
Miami's playoff hopes nosedive as Alabama rises in the latest College Football Playoff rankings
Miami's playoff hopes took an all-but-final nosedive while Alabama's got a boost Tuesday night in the last...
Hamas and Fatah are near an agreement on who will oversee postwar Gaza
CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of...
13 women convicted in Cambodia of acting as pregnancy surrogates for foreigners
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human trafficking-related...
Vietnam court may commute tycoon's death sentences if she repays billion
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A court in Vietnam on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My...
President-elect Donald Trump’s intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation with the Senate, which has the constitutional responsibility for “advice and consent” on presidential nominees. Trump and his allies are talking about going around the Senate and using temporary recess appointments, which last no more than two years. Invoking that authority could result in a court fight that lands at the Supreme Court. Trump might also have to claim another never-before-used power to force the Senate into a recess if it won’t agree to one
Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged with Arab leaders from Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates while attending the U.N. climate summit in Dubai on the future for Gaza while calling on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians from the Israeli bombardment. The Israel-Hamas war was a key focus for her visit to the COP28 summit
