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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)

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

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 faces …

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)

Biden to graduates of historically Black Howard University: …

‘He wanted to live the American Dream’: Honduran teen …

Norma Espinoza holds a portrait of her son Angel Maradiaga, at her home in Olanchito, Honduras, Saturday, May 13, 2023. Maradiaga, 17, who was detained at a facility in Safety Harbor, Florida, died Wednesday. Epinoza is demanding answers from American officials, saying her son had no known illnesses and had not shown any signs of being sick before his death. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Governor says California’s budget deficit has grown to …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces the May budget revision on Friday, May 12, 2023 in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom said Friday the state's budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion. That's about $10 billion more than predicted in January, when the governor offered his first budget proposal. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

Oregon GOP walkout threatens bills on abortion, trans …

An attendee holds a sign behind their head during a rally calling for an end to the Senate Republican walkout at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore., Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

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Kari Lake election challenge shouldn’t proceed, Arizona …

FILE - Kari Lake, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks to supporters at the Republican watch party in Scottsdale, Ariz., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. On Friday, May 12, 2023, lawyers for Arizona election officials and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs asked a judge in Phoenix to dismiss the only surviving legal claim in Lake's challenge of her loss to Hobbs in the governor's race. Lake is challenging the application of signature-verification procedures on early ballots in Maricopa County, while attorneys for election officials say Lake's allegation that the election was rigged was based on unsubstantiated speculation. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Biden commends Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez …

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Former Trump prosecutor mostly mum before Congress …

FILE - Attorney Mark Pomerantz arrives at Federal Court in New York, Aug. 12, 2002. An ex-prosecutor who once oversaw Manhattan's yearslong investigation into former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined to substantively answer questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, May 11, 2023, in a closed-door meeting, according to a Republican lawmaker in the meeting. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., exited the meeting and said Pomerantz, the former prosecutor, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment that protects people from providing self-incriminating testimony. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

Facebook, Google face lawsuit in Buffalo shooting

Virginia joins list of GOP states leaving bipartisan …

FILE - A voter submits their ballot at an early voting location in Alexandria, Va., Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Election officials in Virginia have announced plans to withdraw the state from a bipartisan effort aimed at ensuring accurate voter lists and combating fraud that has been ensnared in conspiracy theories that have erupted since the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Kentucky is latest battleground for secretaries of …

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams speaks to the moderator before an interview in Lexington, Ky., Monday, May 8, 2023. Adams still doesn't have a clear path for reelection despite winning bipartisan praise during his first term in office and expanding voter access during the COVID-19 pandemic. He now must persuade Republican primary voters who have been bombarded for years with false claims about rigged elections. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

No. 2 US diplomat Wendy Sherman to retire after decades …

FILE - Wendy Ruth Sherman, United States Deputy Secretary of State, speaks during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. The Biden administration's number two diplomat is retiring after decades of U.S. government service. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will step down from the post this summer having been involved in some of the most consequential, and controversial, foreign policy decisions during Democratic administrations since Bill Clinton was president. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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)

Biden to graduates of historically Black Howard University: …

Wallowa citizens rally ahead of ‘Greater Idaho’ vote

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Civic Affairs

Hi-tech metal detectors? PPS to discuss school safety

Did Portland’s affordable housing law backfire?

Portland, OR housing bond projects offer 242 affordable units

Affordable Waterleaf Apts open on Portland waterfront

Mark Funk and his wife are among the first tenants at the new Waterleaf Apartments in downtown Portland, May 1, 2023 (KOIN)

‘Woke agenda’: PPB staff comments on LGBTQ training

A screen shot from a PPB training video for LGBTQ policy issues, April 2023 (KOIN)

Oregon unemployment rate falls in March

2 years later, Robert Delgado family still mourns

Robert Delgado in an undated photo provided by his family, April 18, 2021

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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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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)

Thailand’s opposition wins big election victory, …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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)

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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)

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Human Interest

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

Magic Wheelchair gives splashy ride to 6-year-old

‘Pardon Thy French’ spreads joy with plushies

Retired teacher grapples with rent prices in Portland

Frieda Cohen, 102, shares secrets to long life

Less and More serves Portland nostalgia with coffee

Christine Getman, KOIN 6’s Remarkable Woman of 2022

From yo-yos to veterans, Alice Custodio finds ways …

Christine Getman: ‘Disability pride’ becomes ‘Magic’

Oncology marathon: Heidi Daniel’s remarkable work

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