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The pro-Israel political organization AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, announced on Wednesday that it will no longer issue endorsements, make direct PAC contributions or earmark funds for candidates.

The Department of Justice this week began notifying the counties it wants to monitor on Election Day, NPR has learned.

One of the candidates vying for Southwest Washington’s competitive U.S.

A teacher wounded in last week’s attack on a special education classroom at a Bend elementary school says she never had a chance to try to shelter any of the children inside.

An election complaint levied against a Multnomah County campaign photo purportedly altered with artificial intelligence has created another possible test case for a new state law.

The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say they are operating under the presumption that President Trump and his allies will allege fraud related to this year’s midterms in order to justify election interference.

President Trump boasted this weekend of his growing power in his second term – and all the things he’s doing now that he wouldn’t dare in his first term, such as changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Imagine living all of your adult life behind bars for a murder you didn’t commit and being released at 58.

In this urgent presentation, strategist and democracy defender Scot Nakagawa, co-founder of the 22nd Century Initiative, makes the case that artistic freedom is not a cultural amenity but democratic infrastructure.

Rural hospitals across Oregon are under pressure.

Candidates in Washington state’s most closely watched congressional race have spent more than $10 million entering the final weeks of the campaign.

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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration must continue providing gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons.

EUGENE — Oregon coach Dan Lanning said he’s still gathering information about the arrest of wide receiver Evan Stewart and that appropriate action will be taken.

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Countries are not doing enough to cut emissions that cause climate change, according to a new report from United Nations scientists.

The Department of Justice is demanding California take the unprecedented step of segregating ballots associated with 20,000 people the department says are “likely” noncitizens.

NEW DELHI — Like many Indians, Kanchan has one name and lives in hardscrabble quarters.

NAHALIN, West Bank, and TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director Tim Bond shares OSF’s story of comeback after the pandemic.

Families in Bend-La Pine Schools are navigating fear and trauma Wednesday, the first day back to classes for most students after a shooter at Silver Rail Elementary killed three children and one teacher, and seriously injuring another educator and young s…

Ayad Akhtar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and the author of the novels “Homeland Elegies” and “American Dervish.”

Less than a week since a teenage gunman shot and killed four people at a Bend elementary school, questions still linger about the details behind the attack.

A new head coach.

On a small, hilly south-end section of a lot on Portland’s Northeast 82nd Avenue, next to a pickleball court, construction crews have begun clearing blackberry bushes and moving mounds of dirt.

Federal and state law enforcement are investigating connections between violent online extremist groups and the 16-year-old gunman who killed three children and a teacher at an elementary school in Bend last week, multiple sources tell OPB.

The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity.

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On a recent Friday, 41-year-old Kevin Wren was exhausted, drinking apple juice to raise his blood sugar.

Federal land officials are rounding up about 140 wild horses in southeastern Oregon after a wildfire burned across much of the area.

Las dos principales candidatas a la gobernación de Oregón estuvieron en Pendleton para asistir al famoso Round-Up, pero eso no quiere decir que estuvieran listas para subirse a la silla de montar.

Boeing’s 737 Max 10 airliner has been approved for passenger service after years of delays, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday.

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case in its capital, Abuja, on Tuesday after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus, the Health Ministry said.

Un grupo de candidatos políticos, voluntarios y funcionarios electos se reunió en la sede del Partido Demócrata en Hillsboro un sábado nublado de septiembre con una visión compartida: transformar la política demócrata local.

The Port of Coos Bay has a big vision to make international shipping the heart of the south coast’s economic revival.

TikTok employees repeatedly raised concerns internally about the risks the short-form video app posed to children, including sexual exploitation and exposure to suicide content.

Rising fuel costs, discontent with the state of schools, declining public services and a housing crisis are fueling an autumn of protests in Europe.

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In a tense hearing on Monday, federal Judge Ana C.

The Justice Department announced on Monday it was charging 28 noncitizens with election crimes in California, signaling a further escalation over the state’s voting system that looks like it will continue through Election Day and beyond.

EDMONTON, Alberta — Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity amid U.S.

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In the race for Clark County auditor, a seasoned Southwest Washington politician has based much of her campaign on questioning the integrity of the office she wants to lead.

Southwest Oregon Regional Airport could restore daily flights to Portland in 2027, nearly a decade after it last served the city.

With a chill in the air and Halloween around the corner, there is no denying that the scariest time of the year is here for Oregon.

In 2022, Portland and Multnomah County voters approved ballot measures to use ranked-choice voting to elect officials in city of Portland and Multnomah County contests.

For the first time since the tragic mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary last week, Bend Police now say that an adult and a student in the classroom managed to somehow escape unharmed.

MIAMI (AP) — More than 100,000 people from Ukraine and Sudan can stay in the United States without immediate risk of deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said, in what amounts to a temporary reprieve after their right to stay in the country was

Rhoam Summer loved dancing, dinosaurs and making art, the parents of the 5-year-old kindergarten student killed at Silver Rail Elementary School said in a statement released through their lawyers.