PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In less than two months, House Bill 4002 will go into effect and officially reintroduce criminal penalties for those who possess drugs. But under Multnomah County’s new deflection program, people caught using drugs can avoid arrest — and still walk away without mandated treatment. Off-duty Washington County deputy killed in crash […]
Jun. 17—Robert Card’s battalion commander in the Army Reserve said Monday that his team could not have done anything more to force Card to accept mental health treatment before he killed 18 people in Lewiston last October. Testifying virtually before the commission investigating the shooting, Lt. Col. Ryan Vasquez said if the New York hospital […]
Sir Rod Stewart has launched a passionate defence of his support for Ukraine after he was booed at a gig in Germany while showing an image of the Ukraine flag and the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The London-born singer, 79, has been outspoken in his support for war-torn country and supported a family of seven […]
A rideshare driver was shot after a father of an intoxicated rider found the driver raping her. In the early hours of Saturday, the rideshare driver allegedly raped an intoxicated female that was depending on the ride to get home safely. According to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, deputies answered a call of weapons violations […]
Jun. 14—Every year, thousands of animals come through Española Humane. Some have socks, other spots. Some may even have masks. But any one of them could become a hero. Pancho, a speckled rescue dog, was adopted from the shelter about eight years ago. Earlier this month, the pup defended his family from a intruder, according […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland called the increasing attacks against the Department of Justice “dangerous to our democracy” in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday morning. In the piece, Garland defended the DOJ against recent threats made by allies of former President Donald Trump to defund the work of special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting […]
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities defended their decision to evict hundreds of sea nomads from their homes off the coast of Sabah state this week, saying it was aimed at boosting security and combating cross-border crime. More than 500 people from the Bajau Laut, a mostly stateless sea-faring community who live on rickety houseboats […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took to ABC’s This Week Sunday to defend President Biden’s recent executive order that temporarily shuts down sections of the U.S. border with Mexico to asylum seekers. The measure, which went into effect after receiving Biden’s signature last week, will effectively block most migrants (with some exceptions) who attempt to […]
The BBC has defended giving airtime to a retired Egyptian army general who hailed the Hamas attacks on October 7 as a “month of victory”. Samir Ragheb has been interviewed by BBC News Arabic nine times since the war began despite sharing anti-Semitic material and pro-Palestine posts online, analysis claims. They include mocking Israeli civilians […]
Former President Donald Trump has in recent days been escalating his suggestions that he could prosecute his political enemies if elected in November. In interviews broadcast on Thursday and earlier this week, Trump’s remarks demonstrated how he is trying to put his legal troubles on the ballot as a referendum on the American justice system […]
Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida on Thursday defended comments he made this week that invoked Jim Crow — a period of racial violence and segregation — as an era when “the Black family was together.” “I never said that it was better for Black people in Jim Crow,” Donalds, a Florida Republican, told MSNBC’s Joy […]
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Black U.S. Republican lawmaker said his comments expressing nostalgia for the Jim Crow era were taken out of context after Democrats criticised his words as outrageous and ignorant. Representative Byron Donalds, a second-term congressman and former candidate for House speaker, expressed nostalgia for the Jim Crow era – […]