Thandiwe Newton wants her name back. The “Westworld” actress, who had been going by Thandie Newton, told British Vogue, “I’m taking back what’s mine.” Newton’s parents, a Zimbabewan princess and a lab technician from Cornwall, England, named her Thandiwe, which means beloved in Shona. However, as a Black girl in a Catholic school in Cornwall,
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Tulsa schools have a long shopping list of projects for when federal stimulus money makes it to Oklahoma. Teachers and administrators are thinking of ways to put the pandemic-plagued 2020-2021 academic year firmly in the rear view mirror by making schools better than they were before. “It’s so exciting,” said Ebony Johnson, chief learning officer
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The Internal Revenue Service started sending what it calls “plus-up” payments last week to people who are owed a bigger stimulus check based on their actual 2020 income than they initially received. The original payments were based on 2018 or 2019 tax returns. That means people who earned less in 2020 could be owed more
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A Bend man was arrested on drugged driving and other charges Sunday after a head-on crash east of Prineville that sent both drivers to the hospital, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.
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Desperate for money to finance a struggling presidential campaign, then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 team reportedly turned to fundraising tactics that duped donors into giving far more money than they intended or believed they were. That’s according to a blockbuster report in The New York Times over the weekend that describes the scheme this way: “Facing
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The Oregon Public Utilities Commission on March 25 approved a debt relief program to benefit Cascade Natural Gas residential customers who are experiencing financial hardship and have past-due balances.
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Tulsa schools have a long shopping list of projects for when federal stimulus money makes it to Oklahoma. Teachers and administrators are thinking of ways to put the pandemic-plagued 2020-2021 academic year firmly in the rear-view mirror by making schools better than they were before. “It’s so exciting,” said Ebony Johnson, chief learning officer for
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The doctor who treated George Floyd at the Hennepin County Medical Center last May testified Monday that he believed Floyd most likely died of asphyxia. Dr. Bradford Langenfeld, an emergency medicine physician, said he treated Floyd for about 30 minutes on May 25, 2020, as hospital staff unsuccessfully tried to restart his heart. Langenfeld went
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Benjamin Netanyahu faced some of his biggest challenges to date, both legally and politically, in a historic split-screen day in Israel. Shortly after 9 a.m. on Monday, the Israeli Prime Minister entered the Jerusalem district courthouse for the evidentiary phase of his corruption trial. Sitting with a mask on, arms crossed and head tilted to
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden recorded a video that will be played at naturalization ceremonies welcoming new US citizens in which he thanks them for choosing the United States and invokes his own ancestors who emigrated from Ireland. “I want to thank you for choosing us and believing that America is worthy of your aspirations,” Biden says.
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Spring has arrived, and America’s services sector is positively booming. As some pandemic restrictions are relaxed and vaccines are put in more arms, pent-up consumer demand is getting released — and that’s helping economic activity in the services sector roar back, according to the Institute for Supply Management‘s monthly report. For March, the group’s index
Continue ReadingMt. Bachelor will see some snow showers Wednesday night into Thursday and Friday night into Saturday morning. Apart from that, expect some nice days on the mountain, with mild temperatures and a variable cloud cover.
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court has handed Google a win in a decade-old case in software development, holding that the technology giant did not commit copyright infringement against Oracle when it copied snippets of programming language to build its Android operating system. Google’s copying of so-called application programming interfaces from Oracle’s Java SE was an example of
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GOOD MONDAY MORNING EVERYONE… As storm activity moves off to the east, we will see some continued clearing through the day. Highs will be in the low to mid 50’s, at or a little below normal, and NW breezes will pick up to 5-15 mph, with some areas seeing gusts to 20 mph. Clear skies
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Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Science have taken a key step toward new drugs and vaccines for combating COVID-19 with a deep dive into one protein’s interactions with SARS-CoV-2 genetic material.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — The push from students for the University of Nebraska to divest from fossil fuels began well before Veronica “Roni” Miller joined the Board of Regents in the spring of 2020. After he was announced as the next university leader in late 2019,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MEDORA, North Dakota (WDAY) — Firefighters are reporting 85% containment on a wildfire that began on Thursday, April 1, and destroyed 2,276 acres surrounding Medora. Easter Sunday saw firefighters making progress on fire containment despite the difficult terrain and sustained red flag conditions, through four days of intense
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A toddler was grazed by a bullet in a triple shooting in south St. Louis City early Saturday evening. Officials with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said three people arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds. One of them was a 2-year-old boy
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Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo is expected to testify in Derek Chauvin’s trial on Monday as prosecutors shift their focus from what happened to George Floyd to a closer analysis of what it means legally. The first week of the trial in Minneapolis centered on a blow-by-blow breakdown of Floyd’s last day, including video from
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A group of detainees caused chaos and unrest at the Justice Center in downtown St. Louis Sunday night, the second time such an uprising has occurred in recent months. Videos from the scene show detainees breaking windows, throwing items out of the windows, and
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