money Oregon state police leave Portland in favor of counties were criminal prosecution is 'still a priority'
Oregon state police pull out of Portland and take a veiled shot at the county DA; Dan Springer reports.
Oregon state police pull out of Portland and take a veiled shot at the county DA; Dan Springer reports.
Five teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology have been charged with a range of offenses in an investigation that began with the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church, police said Thursday. The five, aged from 14 to 17, were among seven boys arrested across southwest Sydney on Wednesday in a major operation by the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team. The team includes federal and state police as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation’s main domestic spy agency, and the New South Wales Crime Commission, which specializes in extremists and organized crime.
TODAY's Hoda Kotb stubbed her toe while running into a subway car and her solution was to tape it using the only thing she had: scotch tape.
Arizona has charged 18 people over a scheme to subvert the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump, the state's attorney general said Wednesday, with US media identifying the ex-president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani among those indicted.According to the Washington Post, the seven include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, as well as Giuliani, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer.
While waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on presidential immunity, Trump will return to the campaign trail in Saginaw on May 1.
Harris County Deputy Investigator John H. Coddou, 50, was hit by a truck while he responded to a minor crash site.
The Supreme Court will weigh whether Idaho's abortion ban conflicts with a federal law that requires hospitals to provide patients treatment in emergencies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet business leaders in Shanghai on Thursday as ties between Washington and Beijing stabilise, pushing to resolve a raft of issues threatening the newly gained equilibrium between the rivals. Blinken's visit is the latest high-level contact between the two nations that, along with working groups on issues from global trade to military communication, have tempered the public acrimony that drove relations to historic lows early last year. But Washington and Beijing have made little headway on curbing China's supply of chemicals used to make fentanyl, the South China Sea remains a flashpoint, and strains are growing over China's backing of Russia in its war in Ukraine.
Chinese car giants locked in a cut-throat price war descend on the capital for the start of the Auto China show Thursday, vying to draw consumers and headlines in the world's biggest electric vehicle market and abroad.Beijing's Auto China show, which lasts until May 4, will see dozens of firms square off in a bid to draw customers at one of the country's biggest car shows.
Rachel Gibbs shared a TikTok with what she called "unusual" plans for her daughter's birthday party, including suggesting guests donate money for a backyard renovation instead of gifts.
Leaders of the United Methodist Church meet to determine its future over LGBTQ issues and dwindling membership.
TikTok creators weren’t surprised to hear that President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban.
The United States is the first to acknowledge that its long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is not a "silver bullet."Jake Sullivan, his National Security Advisor, said the aid package "will make a difference," but warned "there is no silver bullet in this conflict."
Mining company Vale expects to reach a final agreement with authorities for reparations for the collapse of the Samarco tailings dam by the end of the first half of this year, the company told Reuters in a statement on Wednesday. The collapse of the dam, which belonged to Samarco, a joint venture of Vale and BHP and located in the southeastern city of Mariana, caused a giant mudslide that killed 19 people and severely polluted the Rio Doce river, compromising the waterway to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocean. A new proposal for an agreement was presented by the mining companies to the federal government and the states of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, two sources close to the negotiations told Reuters, without giving any figures.
Thousands are expected to take to the streets to celebrate the 50th anniversary on Thursday of Portugal's "Carnation Revolution" that toppled the longest fascist dictatorship in Europe and ushered in democracy. Antonio Oliveira Salazar ruled Portugal from 1932 to 1968, but the regime lasted for a further six years under successor Marcelo Caetano, only crumbling on April 25, 1974. The almost bloodless revolution was conducted by a group of junior army officers who wanted democracy and to put an end to long-running wars against independence movements in the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s President to resign Wednesday during a tense news conference where the crowd repeatedly interrupted the speaker and at times loudly booed him and other GOP lawmakers who were with him as they stood at the microphones.
A grand jury in Arizona has handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals connected to his campaign.
The app always faced an uphill battle in Congress because of its owner’s ties to China. But observers say TikTok’s complacency, tone deafness and hubris caused its lobbyists to lose its most important fight in Washington.
After meeting with Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday called on her to resign if she can’t tamp down Gaza war protests at the school and threatened federal funding for colleges that don't create safe environments for their Jewish students.
Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani said Wednesday he would run for a second term in presidential elections due in June.The well-known anti-slavery activist and opponent Biram Dah Ould Abeid, who was a runner-up in the last presidential election, also announced his candidacy on Wednesday.
Will TikTok be banned in the U.S.? Here's what to know after the bill passed the Senate and was signed by President Biden.