(Headline USA) When Oregon’s most populous city had a rampant gang problem 30 years ago, Portland detectives were stunned if they found more than a few dozen bullet casings after a shooting.
Now, police are recording multiple shootings a week with 50 to 70 shots fired, and in one case more...
(Associated Press) It was designed as an innovative way to promote COVID-19 vaccinations, but Washington’s new “joints for jabs” program is off to a rough start.
Officials announced Monday that the state's nearly 500 licensed marijuana retailers could begin hosting vaccine clinics and offering a single, free pre-rolled marijuana cigarette to...
(Headline USA) The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline pulled the plug on the project Wednesday after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on the day he took office.
Calgary-based TC Energy said it would work with government agencies “to...
(Headline USA) Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture of Democratic politics, handily won his party’s nomination for Virginia governor in his quest for a second term, setting up what’s expected to be a hotly contested general election against a wealthy businessman and political newcomer, GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin.
In his victory speech...
(Headline USA) For months, President Joe Biden has laid out goal after goal for taming the coronavirus pandemic and then exceeded his own benchmarks.
Now, though, the U.S. is unlikely to meet his target to have 70% of Americans at least partially vaccinated by July 4.
The White House has launched a...
(Associated Press) The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month told senators on Tuesday that authorizing a multi-million-dollar payment to hackers was the right thing to do to bring an end to fuel shortages affecting much of the eastern United States, even as authorities have...
(Associated Press) Donald Trump cannot be held personally liable for “crude" and “disrespectful” remarks he made while president about a woman who accused him of rape, Justice Department lawyers said Monday in arguing for him to be replaced by the United States as defendant in a defamation lawsuit.
The lawyers told...
(Headline USA) In one of her first public measures since being appointed immigration czar to oversee the crisis at the US southern border, Vice President Kamala Harris visited one of Central America's Northern Triangle countries, which many illegal immigrants from around the world use as springboard on their northward...
(Headline USA) Hopes for a big "infrastructure" investment are teetering. An ambitious federal election overhaul is all but dead. Legislation on police brutality, gun control and immigration has stalled out.
After having salivated over President Joe Biden's tantalizingly radical promises, far-left radicals, like many moderates, have been left disappointed with...
(Headline USA) Taking a page from US House Democrats' failed impeachment effort against former president Donald Trump, leftist lawmakers in Oregon tried to use a right-wing demonstration to go after their political opponents.
Ironically, it occurred in a state where left-wing anarchists were permitted to attack a federal building and...
(Headline USA) Led by Hanoi Jane herself, hundreds of protesters threatened to do whatever it takes to stop a Canadian-based company's push to replace an aging pipeline.
The disruptive activists blockaded a pump station in northern Minnesota on Monday, and some chained themselves to construction equipment.
It comes as the Biden...
(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a pair of bills focused on “nefarious foreign influence and corporate espionage” — particularly singling out China, which steals intellectual property and infiltrates broad sectors of American society, especially academia.
“There is no single entity that exercises a more pervasive nefarious...