Fauci: Vaccinations will help coronavirus variants from emerging
Covid-19 vaccinations will not only help stop the virus from spreading, they will also hamper the coronavirus’ ability to mutate into new…
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Rescue operation to free Chinese miners trapped underground for nearly 2 weeks could take another 15 days
Chinese officials say it could day 15 days to drill through 70 tons of debris to reach miners trapped underground for nearly two weeks after an…
Continue ReadingChina and WHO acted too slowly to contain Covid-19, says independent panel
China and the World Health Organization (WHO) could have acted quicker and more forcefully to contain the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, an…
Continue ReadingRescue operation to free miners trapped underground for nearly 2 weeks could take another 15 days
Chinese officials say it could day 15 days to drill through 70 tons of debris to reach miners trapped underground for nearly two weeks after an…
Continue ReadingRescue operation to free miners trapped underground for for nearly 2 weeks could take another 15 days
Chinese officials say it could day 15 days to drill through 70 tons of debris to reach miners trapped underground for nearly two weeks after an…
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OSU panel discusses problems facing America amid presidential transition
President Joe Biden was officially sworn into office on Wednesday. He takes over a fragile nation, whose wounds are still healing from a riot at the…
Continue Reading‘The Simpsons’ seemed to get it right again — by predicting part of the inauguration
First things first: No, “The Simpsons” cannot actually predict the future. Yet, as the longest-running sitcom in US history, the timeless…
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Bend native, WWII fighter pilot Leon Devereaux Jr. dies at 97
Bend native, Bend HS graduate and World War II fighter pilot Leon Devereaux Jr. died Thursday at the age of 97. Devereaux shot down a Japanese “Betty…
Continue ReadingSouth Korean former Olympic skating coach jailed for 10 years over abuse
A former Olympic speed skating coach has been jailed for 10 years by a South Korean court for sexual abuse. Cho Jae-beom, who coached some of South…
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Bank warns: Beware these COVID-related scams in 2021
Since the onset of the pandemic, criminals have used tactics like identity theft and social engineering to defraud government and health care…
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Three endangered bat babies born at Oregon Zoo
Three Rodrigues flying foxes are being raised at the Oregon Zoo this month, adding to the growing population of a bat species once considered the…
Continue ReadingBlaze at facility of world’s biggest vaccine maker kills 5 people
A fire that broke out at a facility of the world’s biggest vaccine maker that killed five people would not affect vaccine production, the head…
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Oregon’s Crater, Waldo lakes designated ‘Outstanding Resource Waters’
Two remarkably clear and internationally known bodies of water in Oregon – Crater Lake and Waldo Lake – now have additional state protections,…
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The huge stakes of Biden’s new Covid-19 plan
President Joe Biden is so far as good as his word to “manage the hell” out of the pandemic, driven by urgency to revive a sickened,…
Continue ReadingJapan determined to hold Tokyo Olympics say organizers despite cancellation rumors
The Japanese government is determined that the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead, organizers said Friday, following an unconfirmed report that…
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BLM, in Trump’s final days, issues disputed grazing permit to Hammonds
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, in the final days of the Trump administration, issued a grazing permit to two Eastern Oregon father-and-son…
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The Kamala Harris you don’t know
On Wednesday, Kamala Harris became the 49th vice president of the United States, the first woman, first Black and first South Asian person to hold…
Continue ReadingThousands of National Guardsmen banished to parking garage
Thousands of National Guardsmen have been moved to a parking garage after they were told they could no longer use space within the US Capitol…
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Bend Factory Stores plans food cart pod
Bend Factory Stores said Thursday they plan to soon add a food cart pod in a section of their parking lot. Food cart owners interested in learning…
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