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Month: December 2023

Oil companies offer $382M for drilling rights in Gulf of Mexico in last offshore sale before 2025

By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies have offered $382 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico after courts rejected the Biden administration’s plans to scale back the sale to protect an endangered whale species. Wednesday’s auction was the last of several offshore oil and gas lease

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Methamphetamine, fentanyl drive record homeless deaths in Portland, Oregon, annual report finds

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fentanyl and methamphetamine drove a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual report released by regional officials Wednesday. At least 315 homeless people died in 2022 in the Portland area, the report found. Nearly 40%

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Methamphetamine, fentanyl drive record homeless deaths in Portland, Oregon, annual report finds

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fentanyl and methamphetamine drove a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual report released by regional officials Wednesday. At least 315 homeless people died in 2022 in the Portland area, the report found. Nearly 40%

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Warm Springs man receives 3 1/2-year federal prison term for brutally attacking woman with piece of firewood

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A 24-year-old Warm Springs man has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison Tuesday for brutally assaulting a woman with a piece of firewood inside a home on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Devere Ben Charley was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release,

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US Capitol Police chief rips into Tucker Carlson over ‘offensive’ use of January 6 footage

By Whitney Wild and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday ripped into Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his commentary about footage from the January 6, 2021, insurrection that he aired Monday night, saying the host “cherry-picked” from the footage to present “offensive” and “misleading” conclusions about the

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White supremacist sentenced for threatening jury and witnesses at synagogue shooter’s trial

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist has been sentenced for making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial of a man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Hardy Carroll Lloyd was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison Wednesday. Prosecutors say the Follansbee, West Virginia, resident

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Harvard president’s corrections do not address her clearest instances of plagiarism, including as a student in the 1990s

By Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Harvard President Claudine Gay recently requested corrections for two of her academic papers, but she did not address even clearer examples of plagiarism from earlier in her academic history at the school, according to a CNN analysis of her writings. In response to accusations of plagiarism, the embattled Harvard president recently submitted corrections to two papers

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