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12-06-2025 10:28 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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U.S. Tariffs street sign on USA (Photo by Franck Reporter)
The courts essentially deemed the president's tariff declaration invalid. Democratic Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says President Trump “has a lot of emergencies in his mind for sure.”
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Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols IV speaks during the Legacy event for the Tulsa Race Massacre on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Joey Johnson)
Mayor Monroe Nichols on Sunday proposed the trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help. The proposal is a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.
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Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China. Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention. They can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and braids. Most hair, salon tools and packaging is imported from China. Stylists are considering raising their prices while the the U.S. and China negotiate new trade agreements. But many dread what price increases will do for clients who are lower income and already strained by months of inflation on virtually everything else
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Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard University, speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's recent sanctions against Harvard in front of Science Center Plaza on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
President Donald Trump has railed against Harvard, calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism. The school filed a lawsuit over the administration’s calls for changes to the university.
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President Donald Trump said he's cutting The Digital Equity Act aimed at closing the digital divide. Programs in Oregon and rural Alabama that teach digital skills to older people, including some who’ve never touched a computer, are at risk of closure along with initiatives that distribute laptops in rural Iowa and helped people get back online in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones. The act intended to cover unmet needs that surfaced during the country's broadband rollout. Trump has branded the program as racist and illegal, and claims it amounts to “woke handouts based on race.”
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Fire crews mover a line around the now fully engulfed the Nottoway Plantation on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in White Castle, La. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP)
The fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored.
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This photo shows the Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse in Denver on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Colleen Slevin, file)
A husband and wife are set to go on trial in federal court in Denver over what federal prosecutors have said was a stunt to help elect the first Black mayor of Colorado Springs.
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Tiffany Slaton, a hiker found in the High Sierra after going missing for three weeks, speaks during a press conference, Friday, May 16, 2025 in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
Tiffany Slaton had been on an extended biking and backpacking trip. Authorities say she trekked at least 20 miles (32 kilometers) in extreme conditions.
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The Trump administration has been pushing back against some court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months. One federal judge has found the administration may be liable for contempt. While the administration has complied with the vast majority of rulings against it, the intensity of its pushback is unusual to legal observers. The Republican-controlled Congress is trying to use its budget bill to undermine the courts' power to enforce contempt rulings. That's rarely used against the government, but the provision in the bill is a sign that some are concerned about it happening
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An immigration detention center in New Jersey is at the center of tensions between three congressional Democrats and the Trump administration after the arrest of Newark’s mayor outside the facility. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been charged with trespassing after agents arrested him Friday outside the 1,000-bed facility. The interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey says Baraka ignored warnings to leave an area inside the gate after joining three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation at the site. Democrats have accused federal agents of escalating the situation by arresting the mayor. Baraka says he has a scheduled court appearance Thursday
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