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PORTLAND, Ore. — On a recent Saturday at the city’s downtown farmer’s market, among vendors and buskers beneath tall elms, a six-foot-tall talking pencil greeted passersby and handed out flyers. “My name is Pencil,” the mascot announced.
Democrats suffered a major setback and Republicans continued to reshape voting maps their way in a frantic week of developments prompted by court rulings.
There's a dichotomy shaping up in this midterm election year. The national political landscape could hardly look worse for President Trump and Republicans. At the
Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic
The Devils Hole pupfish — a critically endangered species confined to a single sunlit limestone pool in Death Valley National Park — faced a near-extinction event after winter earthquakes in late 2024 and early 2025 scoured the shallow shelf that supports the algae they eat.
