If you are Willow Smith and ready to share your truth, the only place you can do it is on “Red Table Talk.” The 20-year-old daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith chose Wednesday’s episode of the Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk,” which she cohosts with her mom and maternal grandmother Adrienne “Gammy”
Continue ReadingWest Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed into law a measure that prohibits transgender girls and women in the state from competing on sports teams at “any public secondary school or state institution of higher education.” The law, which cleared the state’s Republican-led legislature in recent weeks, states that such teams must be designated
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Cascade Security now has a solar-powered mobile video unit that businesses can rent out to captures security video at events, in parking lots or similar purposes.
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden will address a joint session of Congress for the first time on Wednesday evening and is expected to tout his administration’s accomplishments within his first 100 days in office and unveil key components of his next legislative push. Biden is expected to lay out parts of his American Families Plan, a roughly
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden opened his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night by declaring that “America is on the move again.” The President, in his first prime-time speech to lawmakers, is hoping to build on the trust he engendered by accelerating the nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic to convince Americans
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Along with his jobs plan, Senator Jeff Merkley and members of Oregon’s LGBTQ community are urging President Biden to make issues of discrimination they face a priority.
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made history during President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress just by taking their seats — marking the first time two women would be sitting behind the President. Harris entered the House chamber Wednesday night to a round of applause for Biden’s first
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden opened his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night by declaring that “America is on the move again.” The President, in his first prime-time speech to lawmakers, is hoping to build on the trust he engendered by accelerating the nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic to convince Americans
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Deschutes County commissioners recently voted 2-1 to spend $2.5 million to redesign Worrell Park along Wall Street, removing a hill and adding nearly 70 parking spaces. We talked to commissioners on both sides of the issue.
Continue ReadingNewly released police body-camera and surveillance video shows the chemical spray assault of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and others during the riot on January 6. The videos were obtained by CNN and provide graphic new details into how the tense standoff between supporters of former President Donald Trump and law enforcement deteriorated within seconds
Continue ReadingNew body cam footage released in Chicago on Wednesday shows the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez as he runs from an officer. Alvarez was armed with a gun at the time, according to police. Newly released surveillance camera footage showed Alvarez dropping what appeared to be a gun onto the grass nearby as
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The Airshow of the Cascades is still planned for late August at Madras Airport, after last year’s cancellation. The plans include two B-17s – one you can buy a ticket to fly on.
Continue ReadingAmazon has announced that it will raise wages for more than 500,000 workers — but it’s not planning to increase its $15 per hour minimum wage. In light of a current effort to hire for tens of thousands of jobs across its customer, fulfillment, delivery, package sortation and fulfillment, Amazon moved up its annual fall
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President Joe Biden has moved fast since his January 20 swearing-in, signing a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill into law less than two months into his term and issuing more executive orders so far than his three predecessors. Those efforts have paid off, with the administration reaching the milestones of 200 million coronavirus shots delivered
Continue ReadingSince Facebook paid a whopping $19 billion to buy WhatsApp in 2014, investors have wondered how it will cash in on the acquisition, especially after the company walked back a controversial plan to sell ads on the app. On Wednesday, the company finally provided some details on how it’s using WhatsApp to drive ad sales
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Federal agents raided the apartment and office of former President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, an extraordinary move in the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal probe. The shocking development is part of the two-year investigation into Giuliani’s political activities in Ukraine. He hasn’t been charged and denies all wrongdoing. Here’s a breakdown of
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Federal agents raided the apartment and office of former President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, an extraordinary move in the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal probe. The shocking development is part of the two-year investigation into Giuliani’s political activities in Ukraine. He hasn’t been charged and denies all wrongdoing. Here’s a breakdown of
Continue ReadingAfter loosening its Covid-19 prevention guidelines somewhat this week for people who are fully vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon go even further if new cases continue to decline, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. The seven-day average of new cases has dropped from about 60,000 new infections per day to “around
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum praised the Oregon House Wednesday for unanimously passing HB 3284, a bill she proposed to protect personal health data related to COVID-19.
Continue ReadingA police union has filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court to reinstate former Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice outside a recreation center in 2014 when he mistook a toy pistol for a real firearm, according to court documents. The Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association (CPPA) filed the appeal
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