One in 10 people charged in the US Capitol insurrection are veterans or current servicemembers, according to a CNN review of court documents and Pentagon records. At least 45 of the approximately 450 overall defendants have ties to the US military, according to the CNN review. The bulk of these 45 defendants are veterans, but
Continue ReadingCostco is bringing back a pre-pandemic staple: Food samples. The warehouse chain announced that it’s “beginning a phased return to full sampling” early next month after a 14-month hiatus. Roughly 170 US locations will bring back food samples in the first week of June with “most of the remaining locations” returning toward the end of
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Republican senators have delayed passage of a massive bill designed to increase American competitiveness with China, and that means a key procedural vote on a bill to create an independent panel to investigate the January 6 riot on the US Capitol has been delayed until later Friday. The timing of the vote to create the
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If you’re traveling for Memorial Day, you’re gonna break the bank filling up the tank. Gas is at a 7-year-high, just in time for your road trip. And by the way, there’s no newsletter Monday, so we’ll see you again Tuesday! Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with
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The gunman who authorities say killed nine coworkers in San Jose, California, had a hatred for his workplace that he expressed in notes discovered when he was searched almost five years ago, a Department of Homeland Security official told CNN on Thursday. Samuel James Cassidy was taken into secondary inspection after returning from a trip
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A year ago, you’ll recall that our family lives were in chaos. We were managing the initial shock and fear of quarantine life. We were adjusting to working from home and acclimating ourselves to Zoom calls and daily life in front of screens. Stress ran high in households as families were, often for the first
Continue ReadingWhen the Ingenuity helicopter took off for its latest flight on Mars, things didn’t go quite according to plan. But the little chopper muscled through its sixth flight on May 22 and survived, despite some unplanned swinging around in the Martian atmosphere. The unexpected motion was caused by an image-processing issue that disrupted the flight
Continue ReadingAn unarmed man was shot by a Virginia sheriff’s deputy about an hour after the same deputy gave the man a ride home, Virginia State Police confirmed to CNN. An attorney for Isiah Brown, 32, said his client was shot while on the phone with 911 after the deputy — who had returned to respond
Continue ReadingThe family attorney for an unarmed man shot and wounded by a Virginia sheriff’s deputy said the shooting occurred because of a “failure of communication” between 911 dispatchers and deputies on the scene. Isiah Brown, 32, was shot by a Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s deputy while Brown was on the phone with 911 dispatch, David Haynes,
Continue Reading“Friends” star Matthew Perry has revealed that he struggled with the pressures of filming the show in front of a live studio audience, saying he felt like he was going to die “every single night.” The 51-year-old actor — who played witty, sarcastic Chandler Bing in the hit ’90s sitcom — opened up about his
Continue ReadingTiger Woods has given his first interview since he was involved in a massive car crash in February, discussing his rehab and physical therapy with Golf Digest. The golfing legend was seriously injured after the Genesis SUV he was driving veered off the road about 26 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles around 7 a.m.
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Mask mandates are being lifted across the US. Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are dropping. People are getting vaccinated. All these promising signs suggest the summer of 2021 could be very different from a year ago. Half of the adult population is fully vaccinated, according to data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control
Continue ReadingThe mother of Ronald Greene, the Black man who died in an encounter with Louisiana State Police in 2019, led a crowd dressed in green on a march from the state Capitol building to the governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge on Thursday. Marchers chanted “Black lives matter” and “justice for Ronald Greene” at the event
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With the governor out of state, Idaho’s lieutenant governor issued an executive order banning mask mandates in schools and public buildings, saying the face-covering directives threatened people’s freedom.
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Crews across the U.S. West are lighting controlled burns and taking other steps to prepare for the 2021 fire season that follows the worst one on record.
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Oregon lawmakers recently passed a bill that would allow motorcyclists to drive between slowed or stopped traffic. But Gov. Kate Brown this week vetoed the measure, citing public safety concerns.
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The city of Bend and Bend Pollinator Pathway were out planting native flowers on Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Bridge and along Newport Avenue.
Continue ReadingNine navy blue uniform caps sat above nine photos of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employees killed in a San Jose rail yard as loved ones and community members gathered at the City Hall on Thursday to remember the latest victims of a mass shooting. The nine who lost their lives — Abdolvahab Alaghmandan,
Continue ReadingA raid on a remote village in Afghanistan kills an ageing al Qaeda leader wanted by the FBI. Messages to the group’s cells around the world are seized. Two drone strikes on militants in northwest Syria swiftly follow. Details of a little-publicized October raid targeting a senior al Qaeda militant, Husam Abd-al-Rauf, in the Afghan
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