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    Oregon Bill on Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care Sparks Debate

    An Oregon bill that would expand access to reproductive health and gender-affirming care drew emotional testimony, mirroring the culture war debates over abortion, gender identity and parents' rights that are playing out in state legislatures across the U.S. Read More
  • Detective Cookie Boulden, Seattle City Council member Tammy Morales and community members dig up a shovel full of dirt during the official ground breaking ceremony for the Detective Cookie Chess Park on the Rainier Avenue South and 51st on June 14, 2022. Detective Cookie's chess club has been helping southend kids learn the game of chess for more than a decade. (Photo/Susan Fried)

    Detective Files Discrimination Claim Against Seattle Police

    Detective Denise “Cookie” Bouldin filed the tort claim Friday. It alleges she has faced daily discrimination during her 43 years with the department. Read More
  • Family friend Tony McDavid walks through the wreckage of the beachfront home of Nina Lavigna, as friends help recover salvageable belongings after half of her house collapsed following beach erosion from Hurricane Nicole, Nov. 12, 2022, in Wilbur-By-The-Sea, Fla. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

    United Nations Report will Give Stark Climate Warning

    A major new United Nations report being released Monday will  provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists is the first to summarize the research on global warming compiled since the Paris climate accord was sealed in 2015 Read More
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during a Friends of Ireland Caucus St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the U.S. Capitol, March 17, 2023, in Washington. Top Republicans, including some of former President Donald Trump’s potential rivals for the party’s nomination, rushed to his defense on Saturday after Trump said he is bracing for possible arrest. McCarthy said a possible indictment would be “an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance

    Some Top Republicans Rally to Trump as Possible Charges Loom

    Top Republicans, including some of Donald Trump’s potential rivals for the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination, are rushing to his defense after Trump said he's bracing for possible arrest.in a case that the Manhattan district attorney is investigating over hush money payments made to women who alleged Trump had sexual encounters with them Read More
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Oregon Bill on Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care Sparks Debate

An Oregon bill that would expand access to reproductive health and gender-affirming care drew emotional testimony, mirroring the culture war debates over abortion, gender identity and parents' rights that are playing out in state legislatures across the U.S.

The Big Problem for Endangered Orcas? Inbreeding

People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having many of their number captured for display in marine parks.

Amazon Cuts 9,000 More Jobs, Bringing 2023 Total to 27,000

The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company's history

Starbucks New CEO Laxman Narasimhan Takes His Seat

Narasimhan succeeds longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz, who came out of retirement last spring to serve as interim CEO while the company searched for a new chief executive.

NEWS BRIEFS

Tiffani Penson Announces Campaign for PCC Board, Zone 2

Penson is proud of the accomplishments of PCC ...

Black Bag Speaker Series: Oregon Black Pioneers Historic Photograph Collection

OBP will present the history and context of a photo album, found in a house located in historically Black North Portland, that was...

The Making of American Whiteness Book Presentation and Signing to be Held at OHS

The Making of American Whiteness book will be presented by Dr. Carmen P. Thompson, in conversation with Dr. Darrell Millner on...

Support for Survivors of Child Sex Trafficking Unanimously Passes Oregon Senate

SB 745 will require juvenile departments to screen for survivors of sex trafficking, connect identified survivors with critical...

Reusable Food Container Bill Passes Oregon Senate

SB 545 will allow restaurants to fill consumer-owned containers with food ...

Oregon bill on abortion, gender-affirming care sparks debate

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon bill that would greatly expand access to reproductive health and gender-affirming care drew emotional testimony on Monday, mirroring the culture war debates over abortion, gender identity and parents' rights that are playing out in state legislatures across the...

Deputy shot, wounded in Seattle during eviction, 1 dead

SEATTLE (AP) — A King County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in Seattle Monday while trying to serve an eviction notice, and a person inside the residence was later found dead, police said. The Seattle Police Department said on Twitter around 10:30 a.m. that a person was barricaded in...

The maddest March ever? Underdogs head to the Sweet 16

We know you're upset. Underdogs have blown up every bracket in the country. An upside of the upsets: perhaps the maddest March ever. Defending national champion Kansas and fellow No. 1 seed Purdue are gone — the Boilermakers with a slice of unwanted history. The Sweet...

March Madness betting guide: Upsets shuffle favorites' odds

LAS VEGAS (AP) — March Madness isn't just about filling out — and later trashing — brackets. There are more ways to bet the field in the NCAA Tournament, an event that will consume basketball fans over the next three weeks. Here's a look at the favorites, underdogs and long shots. ...

OPINION

Celebrating 196 Years of The Black Press

It was on March 17, 1827, at a meeting of “Freed Negroes” in New York City, that Samuel Cornish, a Presbyterian minister, and John Russwurn, the first Negro college graduate in the United States, established the negro newspaper. ...

DEQ Announces Suspension of Oregon’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program

The state’s popular incentive for drivers to switch to electric vehicles is scheduled to pause in May ...

FHA Makes Housing More Affordable for 850,000 Borrowers

Savings tied to median market home prices ...

State Takeover Schemes Threaten Public Safety

Blue cities in red states, beware: conservatives in state government may be coming for your police department. ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NEWS

2nd officer in inmate's fatal beating gets same 20-year term

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The second of three former correctional officers sentenced in the fatal beating of a state inmate received a 20-year prison term Monday, the same as a co-conspirator despite a judge's declaration he could have stopped the attack as the senior officer. U.S....

Montana senator wants to block mandatory diversity training

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Montana wants to prohibit mandatory diversity training for state employees with a bill whose language matches a Florida law that is temporarily blocked by the courts. The proposed “Montana Individual Freedom Act,” would prohibit...

Silicon Valley Bank collapse concerns founders of color

In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers started pulling out their money, a WhatsApp group of startup founders who are immigrants of color ballooned to more than 1,000 members. Questions flowed as the bank’s financial status worsened. Some desperately...

ENTERTAINMENT

Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain prize surrounded by celeb pals

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adam Sandler placed his hand on the bronze bust of Mark Twain and speculated that it “one day might be the weapon used to bludgeon me in my sleep." A host of comedic and entertainment royalty gathered at Washington’s Kennedy Center as Sandler was presented with...

Jeremy Scott leaves Moschino after 10 years at fashion house

MILAN (AP) — Jeremy Scott is stepping down as creative director of Italian luxury house Moschino after 10 years of wild and wacky fashion shows and his elegant dressing of numerous celebrities. The company made the announcement Monday. “Scott has penned a fundamental...

Itching to start spring garden cleanup? Not so fast!

When the blare of the year’s first leaf blower awakened me one morning last week, I realized spring cleanup had commenced -- no matter that March could still roar like a lion here in my Long Island, New York, neighborhood. It stands to reason that professional landscapers cannot...

Seven Guitars Actor Profile: James Dixon

Seven Guitars Actor Profile: Telvin Griffin

Oscars 2023: Highlights and Winners

How and Where to Watch the Oscars

U.S. & WORLD NEWS

Secession Is Here: States, Cities and the Wealthy Are Already Withdrawing From America

United Nations Report will Give Stark Climate Warning

Some Top Republicans Rally to Trump as Possible Charges Loom

Everything Never Learned About Phyllis Mae Dailey, the First Black Navy Nurse

Los Angeles schools shut down as staff begin 3-day strike

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked off the job...

Garbage: In Paris streets, heaps of it become protest symbol

PARIS (AP) — Garbage. Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily — and in some places standing higher...

French protests drag on after Macron's pension plan push

PARIS (AP) — French garbage collectors, refinery workers and others were striking again on Tuesday against...

Spain's government faces no-confidence vote brought by Vox

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s leftist coalition government faces a no-confidence vote brought by the...

Opposition files petition against Nigerian election result

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian opposition party has filed a petition with the Court of Appeal against the...

Strong earthquake rattles Pakistan, residents flee homes

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and other parts of the country on...

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory now has a live streaming video that gives viewers a bird's eye view of the construction of the Mars Curiosity rover.

Roughly the size of a car – 10 feet long, nine feet wide and seven feet tall – the Curiosity rover is being constructed to search sections of the planet Mars that may present conditions favorable for life or recording a history of life. It will be launched sometime between Nov. 25 and Dec. 18, 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The rover will follow in the footsteps of three other successful American rovers, Sojourner (1997), Spirit (2004) and Opportunity (2004). While Spirit has been stuck in sand since April 2010, now operating as a stationary science platform, the rover Opportunity is still operating on Mars and is currently traveling to a crater known as Endeavour.  

For more information about the latest rover, visit:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MarsCuriosity

• Twitter: http://twitter.com/marscuriosity

• Mission pages: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

or http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/building_curiosity.html

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