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06-22-2025 2:42 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard University, speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's recent sanctions against Harvard in front of Science Center Plaza on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
President Donald Trump has railed against Harvard, calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism. The school filed a lawsuit over the administration’s calls for changes to the university.
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President Donald Trump said he's cutting The Digital Equity Act aimed at closing the digital divide. Programs in Oregon and rural Alabama that teach digital skills to older people, including some who’ve never touched a computer, are at risk of closure along with initiatives that distribute laptops in rural Iowa and helped people get back online in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones. The act intended to cover unmet needs that surfaced during the country's broadband rollout. Trump has branded the program as racist and illegal, and claims it amounts to “woke handouts based on race.”
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Fire crews mover a line around the now fully engulfed the Nottoway Plantation on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in White Castle, La. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP)
The fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored.
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This photo shows the Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse in Denver on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Colleen Slevin, file)
A husband and wife are set to go on trial in federal court in Denver over what federal prosecutors have said was a stunt to help elect the first Black mayor of Colorado Springs.
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Tiffany Slaton, a hiker found in the High Sierra after going missing for three weeks, speaks during a press conference, Friday, May 16, 2025 in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
Tiffany Slaton had been on an extended biking and backpacking trip. Authorities say she trekked at least 20 miles (32 kilometers) in extreme conditions.
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The Trump administration has been pushing back against some court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months. One federal judge has found the administration may be liable for contempt. While the administration has complied with the vast majority of rulings against it, the intensity of its pushback is unusual to legal observers. The Republican-controlled Congress is trying to use its budget bill to undermine the courts' power to enforce contempt rulings. That's rarely used against the government, but the provision in the bill is a sign that some are concerned about it happening
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An immigration detention center in New Jersey is at the center of tensions between three congressional Democrats and the Trump administration after the arrest of Newark’s mayor outside the facility. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been charged with trespassing after agents arrested him Friday outside the 1,000-bed facility. The interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey says Baraka ignored warnings to leave an area inside the gate after joining three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation at the site. Democrats have accused federal agents of escalating the situation by arresting the mayor. Baraka says he has a scheduled court appearance Thursday
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Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term. And emerging as top Democratic voices are two very different politicians: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a billionaire from a wealthy family and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who once worked as a waitress and bartender. Both have drawn praise for high-profile speeches and events that have excited voters on the left. Pritzker calls Trump a threat to democracy and national stability. Ocasio-Cortez maintains her antiestablishment profile and labels Trump a corrupt billionaire who's hurting the working class he says he represents. Their messages highlight a familiar argument among Democrats' progressive and more moderate factions
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Crystal Holmes, right, greets her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, as she arrives at Mission of Yahweh women's shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. A service provides transportation to and from school for Mackenzie. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to end up in another district or transfer to another school. They’re more likely to miss school, and those who end up transferring are suspended more often.
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RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, answers a question while taking the stand as a witness during the first day of the criminal trial for the death of Nichols in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, April 28, 2025. (Chris Day/Commercial Appeal/USA Today Network, via AP, Pool)
Opening arguments have begun in the case of three former Tennessee police officers charged with second-degree murder charges in the beating death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. The three have pleaded not guilty but already face the prospect of years behind bars after they were convicted of federal charges last year. Nichols’ death led to national protests, raised the volume on calls for police reforms and directed intense scrutiny toward the police force in majority-Black Memphis.
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