A protest is scheduled for this Friday in response to the death of a teenage girl who was hit by a speeding car while crossing SE Hawthorne Friday.

The victim has been identified as 15-year-old Fallon Smart. Smart was about to start her sophomore year at Franklin High School, and was active in Bridging Voices, the Portland Gay-Straight Alliance Youth Chorus.

A grand jury has indicted a couple in the murder of a 19-year-old that took place in Gresham earlier this month. The victim was apparently hit by a car while running away from an altercation.

The Olympics are over, but Ryan Lochte's shame lives on in notes from tourists leaving the airport in Rio:


Hillary Clinton's campaign is "struggling" to find someone repugnant enough to stand in for Donald Trump in her debate prep sessions. Joe Biden and James Carville are among the names the Washington Post thinks it might be. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has also said on record he'd like to impersonate Trump for the Clinton campaign. Debate prep is weird, you guys.

Is James Carville cantankerous enough to play the role of Donald Trump in Hillary Clintons debate prep sessions? IS ANYONE?
Is James Carville cantankerous enough to play the role of Donald Trump in Hillary Clinton's debate prep sessions? IS ANYONE? By The Office of James Carville via Wikimedia Commons

Speaking of Trump: Looks like he's back to indiscriminately insulting people after a brief foray into decency.

Today, in fuck everything: A federal judge in (where else) Texas has blocked the Obama administration's policy stating that transgender students should have access to bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity.

Lou Pearlman, the corrupt producer who managed *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, is dead. He was 62, and doing time for Ponzi schemes. Grown men who survived Pearlman's boy band machine expressed mixed feelings about his death on Twitter.

A Florida Uber driver has been arrested after three women reported that he'd sexually assaulted them. Don't worry though, because Uber has banned him from using the app. 🙄

ICYMI: The Panic Room has a new name.

Here's John Oliver making the case for Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race on Last Week Tonight. Good morning!