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Mike Schmidt campaigned for Multnomah County District Attorney on a platform of criminal justice reform, one of a number of similarly progressive DAs around the country who won office. His predecessor Rod Underhill stepped down early, so Schmidt could get started on enacting his agenda.

For the past seven years, students and faculty at Portland State University (PSU) have called for campus police to be stripped of their firearms. In 2018, the movement gained momentum after campus police shot and killed Jason Washington. Now, two years later, university officials have decided to disarm campus police officers. We hear about the decision from Willie Halliburton, PSU’s new chief of police. We also hear from Angeline Booth, a student who has been involved in the Disarm PSU movement.

Oregon lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit beaver trapping and hunting on federally managed public land. Employees of federal land management agencies would be exempt from the restrictions. Workers would still have the power to remove beavers that are causing issues like road and campground flooding. Still, critics say the bill is unnecessary. We hear from Suzanne Fouty, a hydrologist who helped write the bill, and Holly Akenson, a wildlife biologist and member of the Oregon Hunters Association, which opposes the bill.

Portland filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald’s newest short documentary, “Hunger Ward,” follows a doctor and nurse who work in two of the biggest therapeutic feeding centers in Yemen. Their job is to try to save starving children. The United Nations calls Yemen “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.”

Many people think of Antarctica as desolate. But wildlife filmmaker Ariel Waldman says the coldest continent is brimming with invisible life — that can only be seen through microscopes.

In some ways, Oregon’s motor voter law has had exactly its intended effect: more Oregonians registered to vote. But John Horvick with DHM Research says that influx is having an unintended consequence. It’s actually disempowering that very group of new voters. That’s because the vast majority are unaffiliated voters and cannot vote in either major party's primary.

Newport faces a large number of coronavirus cases. Eric Ward says Oregon needs to address hate crimes. And the Rose Quarter I-5 expansion project lost key support.

Researchers at Stanford began enrollment this week for a new study of an oral antiviral medication to treat people recently diagnosed with COVID-19 on an outpatient basis. The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial will use a drug called favipiravir, which was first approved to treat influenza in Japan. Study researchers say they hope it will be able … Continue reading Stanford Launches Outpatient Trial For Antiviral Drug →

Three men and two juvenile males have been arrested in connection with the rapper's death in February, the Los Angeles Police Department announced.

A Northern California nursing home hit hard by a deadly coronavirus outbreak is a highly rated facility. It is the deadliest nursing home outbreak in Northern California and among the worst COVID-19 clusters in the state.