Celina Buenafe Tebor

UVALDE, Texas — Esmeralda Bravo picked up photo prints of her 10-year-old granddaughter from a photo studio in Uvalde, Texas, on Friday afternoon. Nevaeh Bravo was one of 19 children and two teachers killed in Tuesday’s shooting -- the deadliest in the U.S. this year.

“War” and “invasion” are two words that can land someone in prison for up to 15 years under a new Russian law.

Those words are “fake news" in the eyes of Russian lawmakers and President Vladimir Putin, who last week passed a law criminalizing the intentional spread of information that goes against the government’s narrative about what the country prefers to call a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Members of the Texas National Guard patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border under Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to stem the flow of undocumented migrants, have voiced a flurry of complaints about their ongoing mission there.

Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford dropout at 19 with a baritone timbre and piercing stare, became Silicon Valley's sweetheart when she convinced wealthy investors she could revolutionize blood testing and promised Americans that their medical lives would be changed forever.

After over $900 million of investments from wealthy donors, falsified blood tests, felony charges in 2018, and a guilty verdict four years later, the promises from the former Theranos CEO fell flat on their face in the public eye.

But in Silicon Valley, where most startups fail and the mantra of “fake it till you make it” is gospel, it remains to be seen whether tech investors and entrepreneurs will change their risky habits following Holmes' conviction.

As U.S. and NATO troops withdraw from war-torn Afghanistan, the Taliban is advancing and claiming more territory.

The radical Islamist group controlled about two-thirds of the country as of Wednesday — including a number of provincial capitals seized in recent days — and it appeared that at some point its fighters would go for control of the national capital, Kabul.

When the clean water system failed at the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon this week, thousands of residents relied on members of nearby communities to come to the reservation’s aid with bottled water.

It was not the first time clean water had become difficult to find at Warm Springs, two hours southeast of Portland, or at many other Native American reservations across the United States.

The nonprofit U.S. Water Alliance says 58 out of every 1,000 Native American households don’t have access to indoor plumbing.

Almost half of the U.S. has been in a drought since the start of 2021.

Compounding factors, including low rainfall and snowpack, climate change and persisting droughts from previous years, have escalated into extreme dryness.

The prolonged dryness means low water levels are endangering fish species in Oregon and Colorado, 30% of California’s population is in a drought emergency, and the nation’s two biggest reservoirs on the Colorado River — Lake Powell and Lake Mead — are two-thirds empty.

In 2020, Portland saw its deadliest traffic-related year since 1996, despite a pandemic that reduced road use for a few months and the city’s continuing effort to make its streets safer.

Fifty-four drivers, cyclists or pedestrians died. City leaders are still trying to figure out why.

Steve Stenkamp is a retired Bend firefighter, high school teacher, city councilor and mayor. Now, he’s taken on the task of chronicling the history of lost ski areas in Oregon. From Lava Butte to Crater Lake, Stenkamp has made it his mission to discover the forgotten slopes of the state.

A multi-part series that takes a deep dive into the U.S. asylum system to help readers understand what the system was meant to do, how it previously functioned and what it has become. The Trump administration has thrust that system – along with the U.S.-Mexico border – into the national spotlight.