20+ hour, 42+ min ago   (734+ words) Federal protest prosecutions that began on Portland streets are returning to Oregon courtrooms this fall, where the U.S. Department of Justice faces an uneven record in converting allegations of assaults against federal officers into felony convictions when defendants take their cases…...

20+ hour, 39+ min ago   (523+ words) Oregon’s chief government ethics administrator emerged Friday from an outside examination of her own conduct with no violation established, closing an extraordinary case that required the state’s ethics watchdog to look beyond its own offices for someone to investigate the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (508+ words) Citizenship is a familiar word. What Americans expect from it, what self-government requires of the people living under it, and how those responsibilities have evolved across nearly 250 years of American democracy are considerably larger questions. Those questions will come to…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (285+ words) The economic confrontation between the United States and Canada will sharpen dramatically after midnight Tuesday, when Canadian tariffs reaching 50 percent descend on billions of dollars in American merchandise, carrying a dispute between two of the world’s most closely intertwined economies…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (250+ words) Conditions improved for workers unable to obtain the number of hours they wanted. The number employed part time for economic reasons fell by 414,000 during August to approximately 4.4 million. That federal category includes employees whose hours have been reduced and workers…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1007+ words) American forces have carried the war with Iran directly into the country’s petroleum trade, striking three Iranian oil tankers after ballistic missiles were fired toward two U.S. Navy warships and pushing an already expanding military confrontation deeper into the Strait…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) The investigation substantiated misconduct involving Chavez-DeRemer across six areas of her tenure, placing conduct inside the secretary’s office, during government travel and at her private residence within the same federal inquiry. Conditions inside the Labor Department became one of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (892+ words) Construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom and military complex at the White House will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Monday in a legal battle that has followed the project from the demolition of the East Wing through months of accelerated…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (728+ words) Oregon is preparing for another consequential legal confrontation with the federal government after the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit seeking to invalidate portions of state law that allow certain noncitizen students to qualify for resident tuition and state financial assistance…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (643+ words) American flags across Oregon will remain at half staff through sunset September 1 as the state joins a nationwide observance honoring Dolly Parton, whose death at age 80 prompted a presidential proclamation and a corresponding order from Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek. American…...