Spring is around the corner, but Covid is still hanging around. Oregon Adaptive Sports wants to invite the entire community to a challenge: From March 5th through March 28th, move your body 24 miles over 24 days — and do it your way.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WABC) — Police are investigating yet another unprovoked attack on a person of Asian descent, this time in a subway station on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It happened just before 9 p.m. Tuesday at the East Broadway F train station near Rutgers Street. Eyewitness News obtained
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The Senate is now engaged in a marathon effort to take up President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, a process that could stretch into the weekend before a final vote in the chamber takes place. The chamber voted Thursday afternoon to open debate on the legislation. But Republican opposition is expected to draw
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Jay-Z has 99 problems but figuring out a buyer for his struggling music streaming service is no longer one. Square, the payments company founded and run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal platform. In a press release, Square said it expects to pay
Continue ReadingMississippi moved one step closer to banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports after the state House approved a bill on Wednesday that could make the state the first in the country to add anti-transgender legislation to its books this year. Senate Bill 2536, which prohibits transgender athletes from competing on women’s sports teams
Continue ReadingWhile tens of thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus each day and more research suggests variants threaten another surge, some state leaders are loosening Covid-19 restrictions against the recommendations of health experts. The decision to roll back measures is “inexplicable,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Continue ReadingItaly invoked European Union powers to block the export of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia on Thursday, in a dramatic escalation of a dispute between the EU and drug giant AstraZeneca. Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s spokesperson Paola Ansuini confirmed the move to CNN, adding that Italy and the European Commission had agreed on the
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Federal prosecutors have charged Eric Gene Barber of West Virginia in connection to the Capitol riot, alleging he stole C-SPAN employee equipment while participating in the January 6 insurrection. Barber, a former city council member from Parkersburg, West Virginia, was charged with entering restricted buildings, unlawful activity at the Capitol and theft. Writing in an
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Gov. Kate Brown announced Thursday a modification to the process for assigning county risk levels, specifically for counties facing moves back to Extreme Risk: a 2-week extension.
Continue ReadingLisa Racine hasn’t been able to visit her dad in-person at the nursing home he lives at because of the coronavirus pandemic. So, she decided to get a part-time job there to see him more often. Racine, 58, works fulltime as a project manager for a printing company. She said she can adjust her schedule
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student is suing the school for failing to stop a retaliation campaign against her after she reported being sexually assaulted and harassed by a member of the faculty. The federal lawsuit, filed in Nebraska on Sunday by
Continue ReadingFederal investigators are examining records of communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, as the investigation moves closer to exploring whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists, according to a US official briefed on the matter. The data gathered so far includes indications of contact with lawmakers
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There are 32 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,284, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — She was training a once-wild mustang. She raised birds from egg to flight. She had a daughter. On the night of Jan. 6, 1982, her life was taken. Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer, a Racine native born Barbara Burns, was trying to hitchhike home
Continue Reading Last week, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky used part of his allotted time during the Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s pick for assistant secretary of health and human services, to draw a comparison between genital mutilation and gender confirmation surgery. Dr. Levine, who previously served as Pennsylvania’s health secretary,
Continue ReadingA group of major oil producers has agreed to extend production cuts for another month despite a recent price surge, choosing to limit supply until the global economic recovery is more firmly established. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied producers said on Thursday that they would largely roll over production cuts
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Legislative and congressional districts are redrawn once every decade to ensure each district is fairly represented in the Oregon Legislature and in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Continue Reading Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to Japan and South Korea later this month, marking the first international trip by Biden Cabinet officials since President Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to a State Department official and a diplomat from the region. The trip, which will take place from March
Continue ReadingA former Maryland police chief is facing multiple arson and attempted murder charges in connection with 11 fires spanning from 2011 to 2020, according to a news release from the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department. Authorities determined the homes, garages and vehicles that were set on fire were all connected to people with whom David
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump’s YouTube account will eventually be restored in accordance with the platform’s current policies, the company’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, said Thursday. Trump’s account will be reinstated only when YouTube is confident that the risk of violence has receded, Wojcicki said at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council. YouTube will rely on
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