Oregon Health Authority reports 1,500th COVID-19 death, 1,421 new cases
COVID-19 has claimed eight more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 1,500, the Oregon Health Authority reported Sunday.
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Georgia’s GOP secretary of state to Trump: ‘What you’re saying is not true’
Just days before the crucial Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the US Senate, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger delivered a strong message to Donald Trump as the President persists in attacking the Peach State’s electoral process and the Republican leaders in charge of administering the system. “Respectfully, President Trump: What you’re saying
Continue ReadingGerry Marsden, lead singer of Gerry and the Pacemakers, dies at 78
Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British rock band Gerry and the Pacemakers, has died of a heart infection at 78, his friend and radio broadcaster Pete Price announced Sunday. “It’s with a very heavy heart after speaking to the family that I have to tell you the Legendary Gerry Marsden MBE after a
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Portland PD: Suspect in attempted murder of officer fled after door left unlatched
A man arrested on attempted murder and other charges after allegedly striking a Portland police officer with a stolen pickup escaped when a cleaning crew mistakenly left a door unlatched, police said Monday.
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McCarthy gives green light to conservatives’ push to overturn Biden’s win, as senior Republicans raise alarms
The top House Republican has quietly blessed an effort by conservative lawmakers to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when a joint session of Congress meets later this week, even as other top congressional Republicans are raising alarms that the push could cause lasting damage to a pillar of democracy. The conservatives said on Sunday that
Continue ReadingElectoral College objection serves as another example of Trump putting Loeffler and Perdue in tight spot
Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler have spent the entire Georgia Senate runoffs running as close as they can to Donald Trump, while at the same time avoiding a complete adoption of Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories about electoral fraud. That careful tightrope snapped when a group of GOP senators made the calculated decision to
Continue ReadingFanduel suffers widespread outage on last day of NFL’s regular season
Fanduel, the fantasy sports and online sports betting company, experienced outages on Sunday — the last day of regular season NFL games — preventing many of its customers from accessing its Sportsbook platform. Reports of glitches began around 12:30 pm ET, according to DownDetector, a site that tracks website outages. Users reported issues with logging
Continue Reading‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ has raised over $1 million for struggling actors
The online sensation that became “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” has raised over $1 million for the Actors Fund organization and struggling performers impacted by the pandemic. The musical premiered on the social media platform New Year’s Day and featured household names including Wayne Brady, Titus Burgess and Adam Lambert. The news of its monetary success
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No. 21 Oregon downs Stanford 73-56 for 8th straight win
Senior guard Chris Duarte scored 23 points and No. 21 Oregon defeated Stanford 73-56 on Saturday night for its eighth straight win.
Continue ReadingOregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is sworn in for third six-year term
As the 117th Congress formally convened Sunday in the nation’s capital, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., released the following statement after being sworn in for his third six-year term serving Oregonians in the U.S. Senate:
Continue ReadingWashington Post: In call, Trump demands Georgia officials ‘find’ votes to tilt election
President Donald Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes to overturn the election results after his loss to President-elect Biden, according to an audio recording of a phone call obtained by The Washington Post. In excerpts of the stunning one-hour phone call Saturday, Trump lambasted his fellow Republican for refusing to
Continue Reading‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ aims to cook up first-of-its kind fun
The TikTok community’s love for a little chef has left director Lucy Moss with what you could say is a tall order. On Friday, Moss will debut “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical,” a first-of-its kind collaboration that will test the creative possibilities of the beloved app and platform. “It’s very scary,” Moss said, during a call
Continue Reading Republican efforts to undermine Biden victory expose growing anti-democratic streak
The scattershot efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory are coalescing into a movement led by top Republicans determined to exploit a manufactured crisis for broader political gains. Nearly a dozen more GOP senators, a handful of whom will be sworn-in Sunday, have now announced they will challenge Biden’s clear Electoral College win over
Continue ReadingMedia should call GOP election fight an attempted coup, historian says
The Republican effort to contest the presidential election results on the Senate floor this week is raising questions about how media outlets should cover the moment, and whether the Trump-supported action should be called an attempted “coup.” “Should TV networks show the proceedings live when the GOP objectors are boldly lying?” asked CNN Chief Media
Continue Reading43 staffers at a California hospital tested positive for Covid-19. An inflatable costume may be to blame
Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the pandemic. And at one California hospital, an outbreak possibly connected to an inflatable, air-powered costume on Christmas has sickened nearly four dozen employees. Overall, at least 123,000 people
Continue ReadingHow Georgia got to the center of the US political universe
Georgia may feel teleported to the center of the US political universe, but its emergence as a swing state has been a long time coming. That doesn’t make its political evolution any less remarkable. One of the five Southern states that voted for the segregationist George Wallace in 1968, it joins Virginia as one of
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117th Congress being sworn in Sunday amid pandemic
The 117th Congress is officially being sworn in on Sunday, bringing an influx of new lawmakers to Capitol Hill amid the ongoing pandemic. The Constitution calls for Congress to convene on January 3 at noon ET — the reason for the rare Sunday session. Newly elected and returning members will take the oath of office
Continue Reading117th Congress: Breaking down the historic numbers
The 117th Congress, being sworn in Sunday, is historically diverse, with record-setting numbers of women, Black and Latino members and members who identify as LGBTQ. But even as the new Congress begins, its roster will likely remain unsettled for months. There will be two vacancies in the House: New York’s 22nd District will not have
Continue ReadingA Texas church shooting leaves 1 dead and others injured, governor says
One person is dead and multiple people were injured in a Sunday morning shooting at Starrville Methodist Church in Winona, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement. “Our hearts are with the victims and the families of those killed or injured in this terrible tragedy,” Abbott said Sunday. “I am grateful for the law
Continue ReadingCell phone repair business burglarized, safe and other items taken
Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL ) — Gwinnett County police are asking for the public’s help locating commercial burglary suspects. The burglary happened at the Cell Phone Repair located at 2200 Duluth Highway on December 29. According to Gwinnett County police, at least three suspects pried the front door
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