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GOP Rep. George Santos warns his expulsion from Congress …

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., faces reporters at the Capitol in Washington, early Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. After a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee citing egregious violations, Santos could be expelled from Congress this week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Cities must replace harmful lead pipes within 10 years …

FILE - Workmen prepare to replace older water pipes with a new copper one in Newark, N.J., Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Infrequent grand juries can mean long pretrial waits in …

FILE - Attorney Cliff Johnson, director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, speaks during a hearing, May 10, 2023, in Hinds County Chancery Court in Jackson, Miss. The center released a survey Thursday, Nov. 30, showing that two-thirds of Mississippi counties have grand juries that meet two or three times a year, which contributes to long pretrial detention in county jails. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Oklahoma prepares to execute man for 2001 double slaying …

FILE - In this photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Phillip Hancock is pictured on June 29, 2011. Hancock, 59, is scheduled to receive a three-drug lethal injection on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

What to know about Hannukah and how it’s celebrated around …

FILE - An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands in front of a menorah on the third eve of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's old city, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah candelabra. They do so to commemorate the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after a small group of Jewish fighters liberated it from occupying foreign forces. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Shane MacGowan, The Pogues frontman, dies at 65

Study says the US is ill-prepared to ensure housing for …

FILE - Kevin Hendershot pours ice into a bucket outside his tent in "The Zone," homeless encampment, July 14, 2023, in downtown Phoenix. The United States is ill-prepared to ensure housing and care for the swelling ranks of America's older people. That's the conclusion of a new report being released Thursday by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

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Haley gains momentum in bid to be GOP’s Trump alternative

Henry Kissinger was a trusted confidant to President …

FILE - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, gestures to the audience in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 22, 1973, as President Richard Nixon watches, in Washington. Kissinger had just been sworn in as the 56th secretary of state. Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. He was 100. (AP Photo, File)

A US Navy plane went into a Hawaii bay. Underwater …

In this image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy, Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One (MDSU-1) conduct an underwater survey of the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. The U.S. Navy said the underwater footage shows two points where the large plane is touching coral in the Hawaii bay. It's been more than a week since the Navy plane overshot a runway and landed in shallow water just offshore of Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Leaked document says US is willing to build energy …

FILE - Water moves through a spillway of the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River near Almota, Wash., on April 11, 2018. In the clearest sign yet that the U.S. will consider breaching four controversial dams on the Snake River to help salmon, a leaked administration document says the government is prepared to help build clean energy projects that would replace the power currently generated by the dams. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File)

Congress members, activists decry assaults against …

Kaiyu Zhang speaks with reporters about being assulated by a group of young men wearing red headbands or red bands on their arms, during a news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. A man protesting the Chinese government during the recent Asia-Pacific economic summit in San Francisco shared details about an attack by China supporters that he says left him unconscious, and he urged local police to take action against the perpetrators. Zhang, who moved from Shanghai to Los Angeles in March, was assaulted on Nov. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Global leaders pay tribute to Henry Kissinger, but …

FILE - China's President Xi Jinping, right, listens to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who led the China-U.S Track Two Dialogue, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Nov. 2, 2015. Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. He was 100. (Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP, File)

OPEC+ suppliers struggle to agree on cuts to oil …

Former UK Treasury chief Alistair Darling, who steered …

FILE - British Chancellor, Alistair Darling speaks to the media about economy in a press conference in London, Monday, April 19, 2010. Darling, a central figure in the U.K.’s response to the 2008 financial crisis who later helped organize the campaign against Scottish independence, has died it was reported on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. He was 70 and had been treated for cancer, his family said in statement. Darling served as Britain’s treasury chief under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who praised him as a “popular and effective’’ government minister. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

UN atomic chief backs nuclear power at COP28 as world …

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks with The Associated Press at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Russia’s Lavrov faces Western critics at security …

Austria's foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg, right, attends the plenary session of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Ministerial Council meeting, in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Pakistan police arrest 4 men in the death of a woman …

Shane MacGowan, The Pogues frontman, dies at 65

Somali maritime police intensify patrols as fears …

Somalia maritime police from PMPF patrol in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of semi-autonomous Puntland State in Somalia, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. Somalia’s maritime police force on Thursday, Nov. 30 intensified patrols in the Red Sea following a failed pirate hijacking of a ship in the Gulf of Aden earlier this week. (AP Photo/Jackson Njehia)

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Japan suspends its Osprey flights after the fatal …

A Japanese coast guard escort ship, bottom, conducts search and rescue operation in the waters where a U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed into off the coast of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Japan plans to suspend its own Osprey flights after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into waters off the southern coast during a training mission, officials said Thursday. (Kyodo News via AP)

Haley gains momentum in bid to be GOP’s Trump alternative

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents …

FILE - Henry Kissinger, left, President Richard Nixon's national security adviser, and Le Duc Tho, member of Hanoi's Politburo, are shown outside a suburban house at Gif Sur Yvette in Paris, June 13, 1973, after a negotiation session, as Kissinger announced that they will later initial an agreement intended to tighten enforcement of the Vietnam Peace Agreement. Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. He was 100. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)

City discusses plan to expand Multnomah Safe Rest …

Old Town homeless village in Portland, OR closing due to gun fears

South Koreans want their own nukes. That could roil …

Cheon Seong-whun, a former presidential adviser to a past conservative government, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Invitation Research Fellow of Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

DeSantis and Newsom will face off in a Fox News event …

In this combination of photos, Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks on Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa, at left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaks on Sept. 12, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo)

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Gorge after the fire: Photographs document changes

Ralph Bloemers inspects one of his motion-detecting cameras in the Columbia River Gorge above Ainsworth State Park. The cameras record videos of wildlife in the area. Photo taken June 14, 2023. (KOIN/Amanda Arden)

6 weeks: Anatomy of a Portland drug crisis

Southwest 4th and Washington in downtown Portland, May 6, 2023 (KOIN)

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)

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Live updates | Israel and Hamas agree to extend their …

Israel's President Isaac Herzog, right and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands, during a meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, following the announcement of an extension of the truce between Israel and Hamas just before it was due to expire. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Stock market today: Wall Street opens mixed and is …

File - The New York Stock Exchange signage glistens in the noon sun on October. 4, 2023, in New York. World shares are mostly higher on Thursday ahead of the release of U.S. consumer inflation data. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Truce in Gaza endures another day, tougher talks …

A Palestinian man sits in an armchair outside a destroyed building in Gaza City on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, the sixth day of the temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel's air and ground offensive. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)

Pharmaceutical company AbbVie buying ImmunoGen in …

FILE - This Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, shows the exterior of AbbVie, in Lake Bluff, Ill. AbbVie is buying ImmunoGen in a deal valued at about $10.1 billion with the goal of speeding the pharmaceutical's entry into the market for ovarian cancer treatments. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Global leaders pay tribute to Henry Kissinger, but …

FILE - China's President Xi Jinping, right, listens to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who led the China-U.S Track Two Dialogue, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Nov. 2, 2015. Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. He was 100. (Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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OSU, WSU control of Pac-12 put on hold

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