by Courtney Vaughn The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! The weather forecast can no longer be trusted. Spring is unpredictable, like an emotionally detached, fickle lover. It brings us flowers,...
What if you don't like your friend's fiancé? On today's Morning Brew, the Rising team answers this question.
The Rising crew sits down to discuss what questions people hate getting asked.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, is but one of the growing factions of antisemitism within our government whose mission is to get President Biden reelected -- whatever it takes ("AOC hails 'peaceful' anti-Israel protests on college campuses," web, April 22).
Because New Jersey residents agree, it's getting windier, here are your early links: Secret Service would chaperone Trump in jail, LIRR Candy Crush king, captchas are getting really hard and more. [ more › ]
Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.
Canada is the first Western government to ban Russian supplies of titanium as part of a package to mark the second anniversary of Russia's Ukraine invasion in February.
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – In a key scientific feat, letters written by the late Everest mountaineer George Mallory, which survived 75 years in his jacket pocket before his body was discovered, have been digitized and made available to a global audience for the first time. […]
Because somehow no Early Addition readers made the final cut, here are your early links: Bronx Zoo turns 125, Bo Dietl keeps cursing, Justin Bieber wore two pairs of sweatpants at once and more. [ more › ]
Send words of encouragement to the men and women who sacrificed to defend the unborn.
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
Correspondents in Port-au-Prince face danger as they play a vital role in chronicling city’s state of siegeEach day, Makenson Rémy wakes in the hush of the night to tell the story of his shattered home town, Port-au-Prince. Each day, he fears he might die. “I am very worried for the city. I am worried for my family. I am worried for myself too, because at any moment I could go out and never come back,” said the Haitian journalist who is responsible for the crack-of-dawn radio broadcasts that...