Aleah Goodman scored 20 points, leading six into double figures on Sunday as a deep and balanced Oregon State offense knocked off No. 14 Oregon 88-77 in the annual rivalry game.
Continue ReadingThe only resort to get any new snow in the last 24 hours was Timberline at Mt. Hood.
Continue ReadingIf it weren’t for a producer’s persistence, the movie that just won best foreign-language film at the Golden Globes might have been made in English instead. “Minari” writer-director Lee Isaac Chung told CNN in a recent interview that he knew he wanted to tell the story in Korean. But he feared that would be a
Continue ReadingTwo men have been arrested following a manhunt in Georgia that left a deputy in critical condition, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The GBI said preliminary information indicated the deputy was shot during a pursuit Saturday that began in Seminole County, Georgia, when a deputy tried to conduct a traffic stop for reckless
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. March 2020 never really ended. In those unforgettable days — March 11, 12, 13 — the great shutdown reached the US and society changed forever. The notion of a never-ending March became a bleak running
Continue ReadingThe 78th Golden Globe Awards got off to an awkward start, seeking to address controversy regarding the organization behind the ceremony, while experiencing technical glitches amid a pandemic-dictated format. Although they honor both movies and TV, the Globes are watched most closely as a bellwether for the Academy Awards. The traditional awards season, however, has
Continue ReadingMonica Yi stares at a rickety trailer in the middle of an empty field in rural Arkansas. “What is this place?” the stunned wife asks her husband. Jacob Yi replies without hesitation: “Our home.” It’s the opening scene of “Minari.” These words, like many lines in the movie, are spoken in Korean. Jacob and Monica
Continue ReadingVanessa Bryant has asked a US court to publicly name four Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies she claims took or shared pictures of the remains of her late husband, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, their daughter and seven others killed in the January 2020 helicopter crash. The request comes as part of Bryant’s federal lawsuit against
Continue ReadingThe 78th Golden Globe Awards got off to an awkward start, seeking to address controversy regarding the organization behind the ceremony, while experiencing technical glitches amid a pandemic-dictated format. Although they honor both movies and TV, the Globes are watched most closely as a bellwether for the Academy Awards. This year’s ceremony proceeded under what
Continue ReadingMajor League Baseball celebrated Black History Month this year by merging America’s favorite pastime with art. The MLB commissioned 10 artists to celebrate the careers of legendary Black baseball players, in an effort to “honor the past and current game changers in baseball,” said Barbara McHugh, MLB’s senior vice president of marketing. “We also wanted
Continue ReadingFacebook has turned the news back on. In Australia, the websites that were previously blocked by Facebook are now accessible and sharable once again. But the battle involving social networks and news is just beginning. Australia’s government passed a law that offered a glimpse at the future for Facebook and media consumers around the world.
Continue ReadingDecades ago, Soviet scientists researched biological weapons at a site in Volginsky, about 70 miles east of Moscow. Now, that site is being used to mass-produce a vaccine aimed at protecting people around the world from the coronavirus. CNN gained exclusive access to the facility, now home to Generium Pharmaceutical, which has been contracted to
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We’re going to have to talk about Donald Trump. To be frank, it’s been a relief over the last month not to spend every hour on alert for a world-rattling tweet or wondering which article of the Constitution would be crushed next. Now Trump has made a comeback from the golf course, in an appearance
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Happy Sunday Central Oregon! Hard to believe we were just cleaning up after a winter storm. Highs neared 60 today and there was hardly a cloud in the sky for most of our cities today. Yet the mountains still stayed around freezing for a nice bluebird powder day. This should be the norm for the
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A White House aide with close ties to progressives is leaving the administration to play a role in a nascent outside advocacy group being put together to bolster President Joe Biden’s policy agenda, according to a person familiar with the matter. Rosemary Boeglin, who has been handling the economic portfolio in the White House press
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump repeated his election lies on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, Sunday, looking to reclaim his role as the Republican Party’s kingmaker in the 2022 midterm elections and positioning himself for a 2024 presidential run. “It is far from being over,” Trump said. “We will be victorious
Continue ReadingThe US Coast Guard is searching for a small airplane that went missing Friday off the coast of Boca Raton, Florida. Pilot Brendan Spratt, 87, was the only person aboard, according to a tweet Sunday from the Coast Guard’s 7th District headquarters in Miami. “USCG assets will continue searching for the missing aircraft throughout the
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The United States is poised to get a third coronavirus vaccine — this one made by Johnson & Johnson. The US Food and Drug Administration has given the vaccine emergency use authorization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended it, and the federal government is scheduled to start distribution almost immediately. Two vaccines
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The chief executive officer of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday — a little more than a month after the company board took action to limit his polarizing public political remarks. In 2020, Unanue’s compliments of then-President Donald Trump
Continue ReadingTwo men have been arrested following a manhunt on Saturday that crossed from Florida into Georgia and left a deputy in critical condition, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The GBI said preliminary information indicated the deputy was shot during a pursuit that began in Seminole County, Florida, when a deputy tried to conduct
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