DEQ report shows how wildfires impacted air quality in Oregon over the years A new DEQ report shed light on an increase in large wildfires and their impact on air quality over the last decade. KATU talked with a spokesperson for the agency about the data they use. "It looks at ... 04/23/2024 - 11:36 am | View Link
With homelessness on the rise, the U.S. Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is ... 04/22/2024 - 9:58 am | View Link
Oregon fire departments receive state aid ahead of wildfire season Fire departments across Oregon will receive more money for staffing ahead of this year’s wildfire season. The Oregon State Fire Marshal has awarded 191 local agencies with up to $35,000 each, for a ... 04/15/2024 - 2:05 am | View Link
Oregon governor signs property tax reset for 2020 wildfire victims Many Oregonians whose homes were destroyed in 2020 wildfires will soon be protected from potentially massive property tax increases after they rebuild, if county leaders in their communities agree. 04/12/2024 - 12:34 pm | View Link
Oregon State transfer portal exodus: Raegan Beers latest star to leave Beavers amid conference crisis Beers is the latest big-name Beaver to be part of an Oregon State exodus that is impacting all of the university's sports. Beers announced that she would be entering the transfer portal on ... 04/12/2024 - 8:18 am | View Link
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raised concerns about granting the president absolute immunity, suggesting it could foster criminal activity in the Oval Office. She questioned Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, on why presidents should not be required to follow the law when acting in their official capacity.
CNN's Brynn Gingras describes former President Donald Trump's demeanor in court during former publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker's testimony as part of his criminal hush money trial.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Trump lawyer D. John Sauer during Supreme Court arguments on the distinction between official and personal acts alleged in the charges. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck shares his takeaway.
Can a President order a political rival’s assassination and avoid criminal prosecution? What if he sold nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary or staged a coup?
These are some of the hypothetical questions posed during oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Justices wrestled with the practical implications of what could happen if they grant former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against him.
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“This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
During nearly three hours of arguments in Trump v.
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant.
That sergeant went on to work for another police department until this year, when he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and misconduct and was sentenced, more than four years after the assaults and retaliation against Rees.
She testified to the state’s House Judiciary Committee this week that, even after her attacker was exposed, her complaint about still being listed as a problem police officer “is falling on deaf ears every time.”
Rees’ testimony, echoed by other frontline police officers from Colorado Springs and Denver about retaliation they faced after reporting misconduct, is driving state lawmakers’ latest effort at police oversight.