Dr. Jerome Adams, former US surgeon general and White House coronavirus task force member under President Trump, took to Twitter on Monday to defend Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator under Trump. Birx, who featured prominently in CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s special report “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak
Continue ReadingA federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally
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Repairs were underway Monday to a fence and playground damaged by a crash early Sunday at R.E. Jewell Elementary School in southeast Bend; police are still investigating.
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Springfield city officials say their police chief has been placed on paid administrative leave amid an investigation.
Continue ReadingIt’s been nearly a year since healthcare worker, Peter Woullard, has walked on his own. The 53-year-old, who contracted Covid-19 last March, lost his ability to stand and walk after spending months in the hospital fighting for his life. “I have nerve damage in certain areas of my body and also weakness,” he told CNN
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A dozen major companies earned an F for failing to publicly address the growing problem of toxic chemicals that may be in the products they sell to consumers, according to the 2021 Who’s Minding the Store? A Report Card on Retailer Actions to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals. The report is a collaboration of nonprofit partner organizations,
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How Covid-weary Americans behave now will decide how many are yet to die. President Joe Biden on Monday warned that “now is not the time” to ease masking and social distancing and one of the country’s top health chiefs, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, admitted to feelings of “impending doom” even as hope rises that the beginning
Continue ReadingThe chairman of the Michigan Republican Party faced swift backlash Friday for comments in which he called the three top Democratic women in the state “witches” and quipped about “assassination” as a way to rid the state of two Republican congressman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. Ron Weiser said in a tweet
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The newly hired head of diversity and inclusion at US Special Operations Command has been reassigned as the military conducts an investigation of his controversial social media posts, military spokesmen said Monday, including one that appeared to compare former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. On June 20, Richard Torres-Estrada posted a picture of Trump
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging she recruited and groomed a 14-year-old girl to engage in sex acts with Epstein as recently as 2004. Prosecutors allege Maxwell and Epstein recruited the underage girl to perform massages that turned sexual at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. In
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Under real world conditions, the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines provide highly effective protection, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At full vaccination, the vaccines were 90% effective at preventing infections, including infections that had no symptoms. At least 14 days after first dose but before second
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In the wake of two (more) high-profile mass shootings, we’re (again) talking about guns — and whether Congress will do anything to restrict people from purchasing them. That debate occasioned this exchange on Sunday between “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (bolding is mine): Wallace: “Senator, first of
Continue ReadingA federal jury in St. Louis returned a mixed verdict Monday in the case of three police officers accused of beating a fellow officer working undercover. Luther Hall, who was identified in a civil suit he filed, went undercover in 2017 during a protest concerning another police shooting of a Black man. Hall, himself, is
Continue Reading Rep. Jody Hice, a Republican, announced last week that he is running for Georgia secretary of state, the state’s top elections job. His 2022 campaign was immediately endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly launched dishonest attacks against the Republican currently in the post, Brad Raffensperger. And then Hice went on television and
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A Bend man has been charged with five counts of hit-and-run after police say he crashed into five several cars in the St. Charles Bend parking lot last Friday; we talked Monday to one of the car owners.
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Several Bend-area homeowners were cleaning up and assessing the damage to their homes and property after large trees were toppled during Sunday’s intense windstorm.
Continue ReadingThe number of unaccompanied migrant children in border facilities reached its highest point on Sunday since the federal government began releasing data last week. There were 5,767 children in Customs and Border Protection custody on Sunday, up from 5,495 children on Thursday. The numbers have gone up each day the data has been released, and
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National Vietnam War Veterans Day was observed Monday with flags on display at the Bend Heroes Memorial in Brooks Park and along the nearby Veterans Memorial Bridge. The war in Southeast Asia ended nearly 50 years ago.
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A new system of registering and a record number of vaccines have created an availability of thousands of appointments coming available this week. You can pre-register by going to the link http://www.centraloregoncovidvaccine.com/
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Houston overcame a blown 17-point lead to hold off Oregon State 67-61 in the men’s NCAA Tournament Monday night and reach the Final Four for the first time in 37 years.
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