Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday announced an all-female Senate sergeant-at-arms leadership team, after the previous sergeant-at-arms resigned as part of the fallout from the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Karen Gibson will serve as the new Senate sergeant-at-arms, Schumer announced. A retired lieutenant general, Gibson most recently took part in a six-week
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A 55-year-old woman has been charged with stalking, menacing and other charges after she was shot by a 70-year-old man in apparent self-defense last weekend in the Alfalfa area east of Bend, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A joint operation between the U.S. Marshals Service, Tennessee Department of Children’s Services and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation resulted in those agencies finding 150 missing children across the state. Planning for the effort, named Operation Volunteer Strong, began in fall 2020 with operation
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — As more Oregonians become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, some essential workers feel left behind. Grocery store workers say they’re upset they don’t become eligible until May 1. “They were livid. They’re livid,” Melody said of her coworkers. She’s a grocery store worker and
Continue ReadingSenate Democrats are down to the wire. In a furious last-minute push, Democrats are scrambling to put their final touches on a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill that the entire caucus will have to support, a task that has proven difficult in the final hours of negotiations and revealed the uphill climb the party will
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While many high school sports are back, one key part of the experience is missing: spectators.
Continue ReadingUS officials on Wednesday alerted lawmakers to a potential threat against the US Capitol on March 4, for which security has been enhanced as a precaution, less than two months after the Capitol complex was stormed and lawmakers’ lives were threatened by rioters. The House changed its voting schedule in light of Capitol Police warning
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Continue Reading The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that Donald Trump has a duty to call off his supporters in light of a potential threat against the US Capitol on Thursday — less than two months after the January 6 Capitol insurrection incited by the former President. “I think President Trump has
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During the early days of COVID-19, families found themselves under a “stay at home” order. This meant parents and children who before had lived like ships passing in the night were suddenly all together in a very tight port.
Continue Reading The acting chief of the US Capitol Police department acknowledged command and intelligence failures the day insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, but dodged questions from lawmakers trying to understand how the request for an increased budget would address those failures. Leaders of the department responsible for protecting Capitol Hill and federal legislators reevaluated their funding needs
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — A local student saved a woman’s life. Josh Wilkins, a senior at Heritage High School, found the woman on the ground with no pulse and she wasn’t breathing. Josh, who is also a medical academy student at the Saginaw Career Complex, said it was
Continue ReadingSolange Knowles is opening up about her health while making her most-recent album. The singer took to Instagram and revealed that she was “literally fighting for my life” while making “When I Get Home.” “2 year anniversary of the project that literally changed my life. When I first started creating ‘When I Get Home’ I
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Greg Evans, a Black man who joined a parade of witnesses urging Oregon lawmakers to ban the display of nooses, said the issue was personal for him: A member of his family had been lynched over a century ago in South Carolina.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MARION, North Carolina (WLOS) — A group of students say ‘thank you’ for a successful classroom project. Students in Mrs. Sandra Wilkerson Queen’s class made several ‘thank you’ cards to show their appreciation to the people who donated food and money for their effort to help animals in
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Migrant children crossing the US-Mexico border alone are staying in Border Patrol custody for longer than three days on average, overwhelming capacity at border facilities and indicating a crisis taking shape, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN. The Customs and Border Protection documents dated Tuesday show a growing trend of unaccompanied children coming into
Continue ReadingA live pipe bomb was found at an Iowa community center serving as a polling place for a special election, Ankeny police confirmed in a statement. Police said they responded to a call about a suspicious device at 9:25 a.m. Tuesday outside the Lakeside Center, which was being used as a polling place for the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The pandemic has brought out the best in a group of teens who’ve turned lessons about the Coronavirus into a learning experience for them and second graders. CBS46 anchor Tracye Hutchins traveled to Pike County to speak with the students. “This is the scene where
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There are 27 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,252, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
Continue Reading The House of Representatives is slated to vote Wednesday on legislation aimed at preventing police misconduct that Democrats named in honor of George Floyd, whose death in police custody sparked nationwide calls to overhaul policing and address racial injustice. House Democrats originally introduced and passed the bill — titled the George Floyd Justice in Policing
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