Following suit on President Biden’s action, Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff until sunset next Monday to honor and remember the victims of the shooting in the Atlanta area.
Continue ReadingTwo of the Biden administration’s top national security officials will sit down with their Chinese counterparts Thursday — a key first meeting in the relationship that the US secretary of state has called “the biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.” Secretary of State Tony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, China’s foreign affairs chief
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Tran Wills couldn’t talk Wednesday about the shootings at Atlanta spas a day earlier without breaking down sobbing. “I saw myself in these women,” she said. “I feel I have been screaming about hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans from the beginning of the pandemic, and no one was listening.” Many Asian-American and Asian
Continue ReadingPeloton is warning owners to keep their children away from their treadmills after an accident involving its Tread+ in which a child died. CEO John Foley sent a letter to Tread+ owners Thursday, saying the warning comes after a “tragic accident involving a child and the Tread+, resulting in, unthinkably, a death.” He didn’t reveal
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) raided another illegal game room, this time in Wai’anae. HPD says a dozen gambling machines were seized Tuesday afternoon. The Narcotics/Vice Division with the assistance of the District 8 Crime Reduction Unit and Specialized Services Division executed the search. To
Continue ReadingFive Below wants to win more teen shoppers with novelty stores and cheap prices. The toy, game, room decoration and tech accessory store targets teens and tweens as its key customers and sells most of its stuff for — as its name suggests — under $5. It said Wednesday that it will open 170 to
Continue ReadingAlexi McCammond is out as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue before she officially started the job, she and the magazine’s owner announced Thursday. The announcement of her appointment to the job had sparked outrage from the publication’s staffers and readers as well as some celebrities because of anti-Asian tweets she posted a decade ago. “I became
Continue ReadingWe first heard the sounds of Martian wind and a laser zapping rocks on Mars. Now, the Perseverance rover has returned audio of itself driving across the Martian surface. Every new sound sent back by the rover is an exciting first because none of the previous missions to Mars have carried microphones. As the rover’s
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The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that the High Desert Museum in Bend is one of 30 finalists for the 2021 National Medal for Museum and Library Service.
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Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the country’s vice president announced in a televised address on Wednesday. He was 61. “President John Magufuli died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years,” Samia Suluhu Hassan said. She added that the president had been receiving
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The 2020 growing season saw a boom in new gardeners, across the nation and locally, as COVID-19 forced us to stay home.
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At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said. “This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference. “When
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President Joe Biden has ordered the American flags at the White House and on other federal ground be flown at half-staff as “a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence” in Atlanta this week. The shooting rampage on Tuesday took place at three different Atlanta-area spas — one in Cherokee
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MONMOUTH, Iowa (WQAD) — A couple from Monmouth, Iowa was ready to retire as pastors at their church at the end of 2020. But they haven’t slowed down one bit. “If it wasn’t for them, probably would have been closed by now,” says parishioners Connie Bonney. “Instead of
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The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send millions of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses stockpiled and waiting for official usage approval in the US over the border to Mexico and Canada, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. “I can confirm that we have 7 million releasable doses available of AstraZeneca,” Psaki said at
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Following its 2018 partnership with Summit Medical Group, one of the nation’s leading independent physician-led multispecialty groups, Summit Medical Group Oregon announced Thursday it is changing its name to Summit Health.
Continue Reading Top Republicans in the House have repeatedly clashed with US Capitol security officials during closed-door meetings in recent weeks, as GOP lawmakers have privately aired their frustrations about the lack of clarity surrounding security measures and what they feel has been undue political influence from Democrats over the decision-making process, according to several sources familiar
Continue ReadingFive Below wants to win more teen shoppers with novelty stores and cheap prices. The toy, game, room decoration and tech accessory store targets teens and tweens as its key customers and sells most of its stuff for — as its name suggests — under $5. It said Wednesday that it will open 170 to
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Facts 192 parties have ratified the protocol (191 states and one regional economic integration organization). The United States has not; it dropped out in 2001. The protocol mandated that 37 industrialized
Continue ReadingSeven sandbar sharks now swim the waters of the New York Aquarium at Coney Island. Their new digs are definitely more spacious than their previous home — a New York man’s above-ground pool. Joshua Seguine, 40, is facing a $5,000 fine for illegal possession with intent to sell seven sandbar sharks, according to a statement
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