The House is expected to vote Wednesday on HR 1, a sweeping government, ethics and election bill that Democrats have made a signature legislative priority. HR 1 passed the House during the last Congress after Democrats won back the majority, but it failed to advance in the Republican-controlled Senate. Now that Democrats also control the
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President Joe Biden is barreling into his first science-vs.-politics showdown with powerful Southern Republican governors, one that could define the outcome of the race to vaccinate enough Americans before variants take hold. Biden on Tuesday warned the country to dig in for a while longer as he flexed sweeping wartime powers under the Defense Production
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Attorney General Christian Porter has outed himself as the Australian cabinet minister at the center of a historical rape allegation that has caused a storm of speculation in the nation’s Parliament. Speaking at a press conference in Perth Wednesday, Porter strongly denied the allegations made against him. “Nothing in the allegations that have been printed
Continue ReadingA week after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid out a triumphant road map for the country’s exit from lockdown, off the back of its successful Covid-19 vaccination drive, major flaws have been exposed in the UK’s efforts to prevent the spread of new coronavirus variants in the country. The government issued a public appeal
Continue ReadingWhen NASA’s Perseverance rover begins surveying the Martian surface in the coming months, the robotic explorer will be searching for signs of ancient life. Then, “Percy,” as she’s known to her team on Earth, will actually collect those samples, and future missions will return them to Earth. Perseverance is NASA’s first true astrobiology mission in
Continue Reading A bipartisan group of members of Michigan’s congressional delegation sent the chief of the National Guard a letter Tuesday complaining about the food being provided to members of the state’s National Guard while stationed at the US Capitol. “Recently, there have been several reports regarding the poor quality of food that is being provided to
Continue ReadingThe Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will retrieve data from the black box in the Genesis SUV courtesy vehicle that golf legend Tiger Woods was driving before his rollover crash last week. The department told CNN in a statement it executed a search warrant for the black box but had “no additional information regarding the
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On a recent trip to the supermarket, I was trying and failing miserably to open a plastic bag to tuck my broccoli into — without licking my fingers for some much-needed traction because, well, pandemic — when I nearly lost it. My frustration only increased when all the huffing and puffing at the useless attempts
Continue Reading Getting enough sleep was tough even before the pandemic. With disrupted routines, extra screen time and the incredible amount of stress most people face now, sleep routines seem to have gone quickly but quietly downhill. And from what I’m seeing in my child psychiatry practice — kids are suffering especially hard. Consider the work our
Continue Reading “Life is short,” Chief Justice John Roberts said during a Supreme Court oral argument session in January. “They only have so much time.” Roberts was referring to Federal Communications Commission rule changes, but he could easily have meant his eight fellow justices as the court continues to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. The justices
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Cristiano Ronaldo wrote his name into football’s record books once again on the occasion of his 600th league game. When he netted Juventus’ third goal in a 3-0 victory against Spezia on Tuesday, Ronaldo became the first player to score at least 20 goals over 12 consecutive seasons in Europe’s top five leagues. Alvaro Morata
Continue ReadingUK finance minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to deliver a crucial budget in the wake of the economy’s worst slump in more than three centuries, the messy Brexit divorce from its largest trading partner and increasingly strained government finances. Sunak will announce later on Wednesday that emergency support measures for workers and businesses are being
Continue ReadingSix Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” the business that preserves the author’s legacy said. The titles are: “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” “If I Ran the Zoo” “McElligot’s Pool” “On Beyond Zebra!” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” “The
Continue ReadingWhen Bill Liang realized that popular video download and streaming service Renren Yingshi might be gone for good his heart sank. The website, also known as YYeTs.com, was how the 24-year-old film school student was able to watch hundreds of episodes of pirated American TV shows when he was growing up in northern China. But
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A La Pine man died Sunday at a Portland hospital after a shooting late Saturday night at a bar in the city’s Sellwood area in which a Portland man also was killed, police said.
Continue ReadingSeveral states on Tuesday announced they are loosening restrictions put in place to stop the spread of Covid-19, even as health experts warn against doing just that. Texas and Mississippi, for example, are lifting mask mandates and allowing businesses to open at full capacity. It’s too soon, health experts say. After the number of new
Continue ReadingThe European Union’s 27-nation vaccine strategy is splintering as member states turn to nations outside the bloc to boost a faltering rollout plagued by supply issues, contract skirmishes and sluggish takeup. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced Monday that he intends to work with Israel and Denmark on future vaccine production and cooperation around developing further
Continue ReadingTwo transients are charged with theft and other crimes in the theft of a log splitter from a Bend store, one of them also accused of the theft of a cargo trailer and tools from a northwest Bend construction site, police said Tuesday.
Continue Reading The House Oversight Committee has issued a new subpoena to accounting firm Mazars USA for a wide swath of records related to former President Donald Trump, which would likely include the ex-President’s tax returns. Though Trump recently lost his case to hold off a prosecutor in New York from obtaining the Mazars records for a
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