Longtime Democrat 'embarrassed' by Oregon politics shakes up race for governor, runs as independent

Wrestling champ Kevin Nash’s son, Tristen Nash, has died at the age of 26.

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss' push to cut taxes for her country's highest earners was a "mistake," President Biden stated Saturday. Truss was forced to scrap large portions of her tax plan last week amid market turmoil and disintegrating public confidence.

A day after President Joe Biden drew criticism from conservatives on social media for giving unsolicited dating advice to a young teen girl in California, the president is again in hot water for claiming the "economy is strong as hell." The comment came during a conversation with a reporter at a Baskin Robbins in Portland, Oregon, who asked the president if he had any worry about the strength of the U.S. dollar amid rising inflation. With a chocolate chip ice cream cone in his hand, Biden answered: "I’m not concerned about the strength of the dollar.

The top prosecutor in Oregon's most populous county announced an immigration reform policy Thursday in an effort to protect non-citizens from being deported if they are charged with a crime. The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office said the new policy will balance the rights of American citizens and those living in the country illegally.

Alexis Martinez Johnson, a Hispanic Republican running to represent New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District in the House, is accusing her Democratic opponent of "whitewashing" her name in a recent campaign ad. The ad from Democratic Rep.Teresa Leger Fernandez's campaign fails to use Johnson's full name and only refers to her as "Alexis Johnson" as it accuses the Republican of "lying about" Fernandez in one of the tightest House races this midterm cycle.

President Biden will attend a big-ticket fundraiser for House Democrats Thursday evening alongside Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Los Angeles. Tickets for the high-profile Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event start at $5,000, with the top-spending attendees shelling out a whopping $50,000 per head, according to a Deadline report.  Though the hosts of the event remain unknown, the fundraiser will be held in Brentwood, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Los Angeles and home to some of Hollywood’s biggest names including Gwyneth Paltrow, Lebron James and Tom Brady. The fundraiser is part of Biden’s four-day-long western U.S.

The former mayor of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to illegally possessing child pornography, according to a Department of Justice news release.  Dennis "Denny" Doyle, 73, waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession of child pornography. Between November 2014 and December 2015, Doyle knowingly and unlawfully possessed digital media containing child pornography. Several of the images Doyle possessed were of children under the age of 12 who had been identified as known sexually exploited minors by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to court documents.  Doyle was charged by criminal information with one count of possession of child pornography on March 3.  File photo of former Beaverton, Oregon, Mayor Denny Doyle.  (KPTV) Doyle will be sentenced on Jan.

An environmental group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. Forest Service officials that alleges they polluted waterways during their campaigns against wildfires by inadvertently dropping large volumes of chemical flame retardant into streams. Government data released earlier this year found aircraft operated or contracted by the Forest Service dropped more than 760,000 gallons of fire retardant directly onto streams and other waterways between 2012 and 2019.

An Oregon sheriff said the state's recently implemented bail reform policies are making her community less safe and contradict what rural residents want. "If Portland or other communities want to be okay with letting some of these people facing very serious crimes out, then that should be their choice as a community," Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan told Fox News.

The Register-Guard. The woman, who is in her 50s, was later taken to a hospital and treated for injuries sustained during the attack.Police are now seeking four white males, one of whom committed the assault while others looked on and cheered, in the assault. The victim told police that all four hurled anti-gay and transphobic slurs at her and made comments disparaging her gender identity during the course of the attack.Officers searched the area around where the attack took place, but were unable to locate the suspects. Two of the suspects are described as wearing green baseball hats, with one having brown curly hair, and another wearing a gray shirt.

A military couple is picking up the pieces after all of their belongings were stolen overnight while staying in an Oregon hotel last week. Gustavo Burciaga and his wife Jennifer Luna were in the process of moving from Joint Base Lewis–McChord in Washington state to Albuquerque, N.M., when the burglary took place, Fox 10 Phoenix reported. Burciaga served in the U.S.

Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan said her Democratic candidate makes decision that are "politically driven" and not what's best for Oregonians on "The Ingraham Angle."  You know, this is a continuation of Tina Kotec's failed leadership, she is out of touch with Oregonians, she is making choices and making decisions that are just politically driven, the reality on the ground is that drugs harm families. And drugs are hurting our state, they are hurting our community, and frankly as you noted, people are dying.The answer here is not to continue to enable this behavior, the answer is to get people into treatment and long-term recovery and not to assume that this is how our state has to be long-term, and therefore we need to create meth stabilization centers, that is the wrong answer.

The victims of a serial rapist in the Portland, Oregon, area are outraged the man will be released from prison later this year and classified as a low-level offender.  "He was designated as a dangerous offender at trial," Danielle Tudor, who was attacked by the "jogger rapist" in 1979 at her Portland home, told the Oregonian. "I don’t understand how that puts him at a Level 1 sex offender." Richard Troy Gillmore will be released from prison on Dec.

The Democrat running to become Oregon’s next governor silently moved her endorsement from an embattled state senator to the second page of her website section. Former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek, who is seeking the keys to the governor’s mansion, was endorsed by state Senator Jeff Golden, her fellow Beaver State Democrat. Golden’s endorsement, however, appears to have been quietly moved from page one of Kotek’s website’s endorsements tab to the top of page two after a Fox News Digital report revealed the Democrat state senator’s repeated use of the N-word in his 1971 book, "Watermelon Summer." Oregon Democrat state Senator Jeff Golden's endorsement moved to the second page of Kotek's website's endorsement page.

Nike co-founder Phil Knight has contributed $1 million toward Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan's campaign in Oregon, according to KATU. Knight had previously donated $3.75 million to independent candidate Betsy Johnson's gubernatorial campaign, but has now shifted his sights to the right.

An Oregon serial rapist known as the "jogger rapist" is scheduled to be released from prison in December after serving nearly 36 years, almost the entirety of his maximum sentence. Richard Gillmore, who got his nickname because he would stake out victims while jogging by their homes, was arrested in 1986. He confessed to raping nine girls in the Portland area in the 1970s and 1980s but was only convicted in one case due to the statute of limitations.  A jury found him guilty in 1987 of raping 13-year-old Tiffany Edens the year before.

Oregon’s COVID vaccine mandate is exacerbating the teacher shortage within the state. Parents have protested Bend-La Pine School District’s decision to fire Ensworth Elementary School teacher Kelly Lundy, La Pine Middle School teacher Zachary Webb, and Mountain View High teacher Mark Schulz for refusing to get vaccinated or fill out religious exemption forms.  Another outlet reported that nearly 40 people were holding signs and showing support for the educators during an emergency public hearing.

A Portland, Oregon coffee shop owner had to clean up after masked vandals shattered her store's windows and spray-painted inside ahead of a "Coffee with a Cop" event.   Loretta Guzman, owner of Bison Coffeehouse, said Friday that friends, family, and neighbors volunteered to help clean up the broken glass and mess left by the criminals.  Bison Coffeehouse owner Loretta Guzman on the damages to her coffeeshop after advertising an upcoming ‘Coffee with a Cop’ event in Portland.

Democratic Oregon gubernatorial nominee Tina Kotek is remaining silent over whether she fully supports the teaching of critical race theory and gender-related topics in public schools. Fox News Digital reached out to Kotek's campaign to see where the former speaker of Oregon's House of Representatives stood on those subjects, asking to what extent she felt they should be taught to public schoolchildren, but did not receive a response. A recent Fox News poll found that more than two-thirds of voters in the U.S.