International

Turkey’s Erdogan says he could still win, would accept …

An election representative shows a ballot depicting a vote for Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the center-left, pro-secular Republican People's Party, or CHP, at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Election polls closed Sunday in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year leadership of the NATO member country grappling with economic turmoil and the erosion of democratic checks-and-balances hung in the balance after a strong challenge from an opposition candidate.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

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Thailand’s opposition wins big election victory, challenging …

Supporters of Move Forward party cheer as they watch the counting of votes on television at Move Forward Party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Vote counting was underway Sunday in Thailand's general election, touted as a pivotal chance for change nine years after incumbent Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha first came to power in a 2014 coup. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy makes surprise visit to Paris for …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is welcomed by French Prime minister Elisabeth Borne upon his arrival at Villacoublay Air Base, southwest of Paris, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes a surprise visit to Paris for talks Sunday night with French President Emmanuel Macron, extending a multi-stop European tour that has elicited fresh pledges of military support as his country gears up for a counteroffensive against Russian occupation forces. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

Ukrainian president says counteroffensive won’t aim to …

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, rigth, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy address a media conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin early Sunday for talks with German leaders about further arms deliveries to help his country fend off the Russian invasion and rebuild what's been destroyed by more than a year of devastating conflict. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Herders in Kenya kill 10 lions, including Loonkiito, one …

This photo provided by Lion Guardians shows the male lion named "Loonkiito" in Amboseli National Park, in southern Kenya on Feb. 20, 2023. One of Kenya's oldest wild lions, Loonkiito, 19, was killed by herders and the government has expressed concern as six more lions were speared at another village on Saturday, May 13, 2023, bringing to 10 the number killed the previous week alone. (Philip J. Briggs/Lion Guardians via AP)

Family with disabled children among hundreds of Gaza’s …

Members of the Nabhan family, including three sisters with special needs, sit in front of the ruins of their home, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 14, 2023. The airstrike left 42 members of the extended family homeless. It also left four children with special needs without their wheelchairs, crutches and medical equipment needed to move about. Israel says the building was used as a command center by the Islamic Jihad militant group. The two sides reached a cease-fire Saturday to end five days of fighting. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Serbia: Guns, grenades and rocket launchers among 13,500 …

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, inspects weapons collected as part of an amnesty near the city of Smederevo, Serbia, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Serbian authorities on Sunday displayed some of around 13,500 weapons they say have been collected since last week's mass shootings, including automatic weapons, hand bombs and anti-tank grenades. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

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Bolivian EV startup hopes tiny car will make it big …

Dr. Carlos Ortuno drives a Bolivian-made, Quantum electric car to a house call, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Launched in 2019, Quantum Motors has only sold 350 electric cars in Bolivia. But their founders recently received a boost from the German city of Bonn, which invested 50,000 euros to acquire six units in support of a local program that sends doctors to people's homes. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Ambitious agenda for Biden on upcoming three-nation …

FILE - From left, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, during their arrival to the Quad leaders summit at Kantei Palace, May 24, 2022, in Tokyo. Biden has an ambitious agenda when he sets off later this week on an eight-day trip to the Indo-Pacific. For part of his trip Biden will travel to Australia for a summit with fellow Quad leaders. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Election at UN migration agency pits its European …

FILE - Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Amy Pope listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, May 20, 2016. International Organization for Migration chief Antonio Vitorino of Portugal faces what is poised to be a tight race against his Biden administration-backed American deputy, Amy Pope, as the Geneva-based organization chooses a new director-general on Monday, May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Regional election in north German state of Bremen …

FILE - The yacht harbor in Bremerhaven, Germany, is pictured on May 16, 2019. Voters are going to the polls in Germany’s northern state of Bremen on Sunday, May 14, 2023 to decide whether the center-left Social Democrats should continue to run a city they’ve governed since World War II. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Sherpa climbs Everest 26th time, matching record …

FILE - A bird flies with Mount Everest seen in the background from Namche Bajar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal, May 27, 2019. A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the 26th time, matching the record set by a fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest …

Bara Kilimandang stands at the door of his house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. In Indonesia's far-east island, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country's national electricity provider. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Israel and Islamic Jihad agree on cease-fire to end …

Smoke and fire rise from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Gaza, Saturday, May 13, 2023. The building was owned by an Islamic Jihad official. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

Special Reports

Riverkeeper calls out state over waterfront cabins

A makeshift cabin on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, April 2023 (KOIN)

JAMO shares ‘stories important to keep telling’

Shigehachi Matsubu was a barber and his wife Mary Matsubu ran the laundry in the same building as the Merchant Hotel -- the heart of Nihonmachi -- in Portland, 1927 (Courtesy: JAMO)

Did Portland’s affordable housing law backfire?

Portland, OR housing bond projects offer 242 affordable units

When COVID order lifts, will jail return to full …

Marijuana moguls own Portland squatter house

An abandoned house at SE 139th and East Burnside has been taken over by squatters in Portland, April 2023 (KOIN)

No rules: Illegal cabins with million-dollar views

A cabin on a strip of beach along the Willamette River north of the Fremont Bridge, April 2023 (KOIN)

Wildfire dispatchers want in on new federal pay plan

A dispatcher at the Boise Interagency Dispatch Center. (DOI/Neal Herbert)

‘A miracle’: OHSU brain surgery stops hand tremor

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National

Border crossings are off from last week’s highs

Venezuelan migrants rest inside their tents on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Sunday, May 14, 2023. As the U.S. ended its pandemic-era immigration restrictions, migrants are adapting to new asylum rules and legal pathways meant to discourage illegal crossings. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Campgrounds at California’s Yosemite National Park …

FILE - In this April 7, 2018, file photo, the raging Bridalveil Fall plummets into Yosemite Valley, while closed to the public due to a flooding Merced River, in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Three popular campgrounds at California's Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Monday, May 15, 2023, due to a forecast of flooding as warming temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada's massive snowpack. Park officials said Sunday that Lower and North Pines Campgrounds and Housekeeping Camp will be shut over fears that waterways could overspill their banks. (Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee via AP, File)

‘Guardians Vol. 3’, ‘Super Mario Bros.’ top box office

Left to right; actors Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff, director James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan pose for photographers upon arrival at the gala event for the film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 at Disneyland Paris Saturday, April 22, 2023, in Chessy Marne La Vallee, east of Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

NYC converts hotels to shelters as pressure mounts …

FILE - The Empire State Building glows blue during dusk, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in New York. Around Manhattan and elsewhere in the city, hotels that served tourists just a few years ago have become de facto emergency shelters. The latest is the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, which shuttered three years ago, is reopening later this week as a welcome center and shelter for asylum seekers. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Boy uses slingshot to save sister from kidnapper

MLB pitcher suffers skull fracture after hit to head

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Politics

MultCo candidate talks homeless, housing, prosperity

Multnomah County commissioner candidate Ana Del Rocio, May 12, 2023 (KOIN)

‘Sad system’: OR group tackles campaign finance reform

OPINION: Democrats look to expand voter registration

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat …

FILE - A booth is ready for a voter, Feb. 24, 2020, at City Hall in Cambridge, Mass., on the first morning of early voting in the state. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

DeSantis in Iowa warns of GOP ‘culture of losing’ …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Biden’s reelection pitch that he can govern well …

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks on the debt limit during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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Human Interest

More than missing dogs, it’s ‘all we have left’

Daisy, left, and Moose are missing in Sandy, Oregon (Kim Hendricks)

Magic Wheelchair gives splashy ride to 6-year-old

Evan Hermanson got a "Lightning McQueen" wheelchair from Magic Wheelchair, October 13, 2022 (KOIN)

‘Pardon Thy French’ spreads joy with plushies

Kids hold a plushie of Bethanee Hamilton, a 3-legged French bulldog. Proceeds go to Joy Rx, part of the Children's Cancer Association, October 2022 (KOIN)

Retired teacher grapples with rent prices in Portland

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Frieda Cohen, 102, shares secrets to long life

Frieda Cohen, 102, in her Portland home, July 25, 2022 (KOIN)

Less and More serves Portland nostalgia with coffee

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Oregon

Crews battle vegetation fire near Hwy 6 in Banks

Fire crews dousing a vegetation fire near Timber Road and Highway 6 in Banks, May 14, 2023 (Donna Linz/Banks Fire)

MultCo candidate talks homeless, housing, prosperity

Multnomah County commissioner candidate Ana Del Rocio, May 12, 2023 (KOIN)

Woman dead after April 25 crash in NE Portland

1 dead, 2 injured in Cully neighborhood shooting

81-year-old woman dies after NE Portland fatal crash

3 injured in NE Portland bar shooting

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Washington

Fowl freedom: Ducklings rescued from WA storm drain

Pesto product recalled from Trader Joe’s in 14 states

OR, WA Coast Guard: Always have a life jacket

Human remains in Camas identified as missing man

WA reports 10x more flu deaths during 2022-23 season

El Niño likely to return this coming winter

Body discovered in heavily wooded area in Camas

One killed in motorhome fire

Teen arrested, suspected of 7 drive-by shootings

OR to drop COVID vax for healthcare workers, educators

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