Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz plans to object to Arizona’s Electoral College results during the joint session of Congress on Wednesday, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, which will force the first of multiple expected — and futile — votes in the House and the Senate to overturn the results of the election
Continue ReadingVincent Simmons has been fighting for 43 years to overturn a conviction that has netted him a 100-year sentence for a crime he says he did not commit. A hearing was scheduled for Tuesday to recuse the Avoyelles Parish prosecutors from the case. It looked to be the last chance for Simmons, 68, to receive
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Artists across Oregon and throughout the world are invited to compete in one or all three of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2022 stamp art competitions.
Continue ReadingImagine having cardiac arrest and getting picked up by an ambulance that won’t take you to a hospital. Or having a medical emergency and languishing outside an emergency room for hours. This is what Los Angeles County faces as the onslaught of Covid-19 devastates the community — including those without coronavirus. “Hospitals are declaring internal
Continue ReadingCollege students faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the country, prompting remote-learning provisions and shortening athletics seasons. For student-athletes playing football at bowl-bound schools, those changes coincided with a poor year for academic performance, the latest edition of an authoritative annual study has found. The overall academic performance of football
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This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday feature looks at building a digital defense against tech support fraud.
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Vice President Mike Pence’s four years of faithful service to his boss, President Donald Trump, will culminate this week in a ceremonial act he’s under increasing pressure to thwart. “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” Trump declared falsely on Tuesday, lending credence to an erroneous theory that Pence can overturn
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing to remove the Borax Lake chub from the State List of Threatened and Endangered species.
Continue ReadingGeorgia isn’t just the center of the political universe. It’s center stage on Wall Street, too. The Peach State’s Senate runoffs will decide control of the US Senate — and that in turn will play a pivotal role in shaping the economic recovery as well as the investing environment. “It is impossible to overstate how
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This is it. President Donald Trump’s dogged effort to ignore the voters, state election officials, the courts and the Electoral College has come down to his latest wild idea — that he’ll just get Vice President Mike Pence to steal the thing for him. But it’s not going to happen, even though Pence’s quiet and
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The effects of a changing climate continue to significantly affect Oregonians and the state’s resources and infrastructure, the latest biennial report released Tuesday by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute concludes.
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Here’s a look at the life of former US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Gabbard represented Hawaii’s 2nd District. Personal Birth date: April 12, 1981 Birth place: Leloaloa, American Samoa Birth name: Tulsi Gabbard Father: Mike Gabbard, Hawaii state senator Mother: Carol (Porter) Gabbard, former Hawaii Board of Education member Marriages: Abraham
Continue Reading Here is a look at the life of Cory Booker, US senator from New Jersey and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Personal Birth date: April 27, 1969 Birth place: Washington, DC Birth name: Cory Anthony Booker Father: Cary Booker, IBM executive Mother: Carolyn Booker, IBM executive Education: Stanford University, B.A., 1991; Stanford University, M.A, 1992;
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Co-developing land for both solar photovoltaic power and agriculture could provide 20% of total electricity generation in the United States, with an investment of less than 1% of the annual U.S. budget, a new paper by Oregon State University researchers found.
Continue ReadingMcDonald’s is launching new sandwiches next month in an effort to win fast food’s chicken war. On Monday, the company announced three versions of a new chicken sandwich, which will be available nationally on February 24: The Crispy Chicken Sandwich, topped with pickles and served on a potato roll, the Spicy Chicken Sandwich, which adds
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Marilyn Strickland of Washington state made history not once but twice on Sunday. She not only became the first African American to represent her state in Congress, but she also is one of the first Korean American women to serve in the House in its 231-year history. So, when the time came to
Continue ReadingBattery electric vehicles accounted for more than half of all cars sold in Norway last year, putting the country way out in front in efforts to kill off the internal combustion engine. And Tesla lost its sales crown to the Volkswagen Group. Norway is using huge tax incentives to help ensure that every new passenger
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Federal officials are starting to build a temporary housing site for residents in Linn and Marion counties who lost everything in the 2020 wildfires.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — A new and potentially more problematic variant of the coronavirus has been found in South Africa. Health officials worry the new strain could be more contagious than the variant spreading in the UK right now. The new strains are leading to questions about whether
Continue Reading The US is “standing on the abyss of the destruction of our democracy,” former Defense Secretary William Cohen said Monday night, as President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress try to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Referring to Trump’s repeated and baseless claims of fraud and efforts to pressure election
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