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Stop investigating me or Ill burn America down and everyone in it.—A Clearly Innocent Man
"Stop investigating me or I'll burn America down and everyone in it."—A Clearly Innocent Man Chip Somodevilla / Staff / Getty

GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! Doesn't really matter what the eye is seeing, 'cause I'm in love with the inner being. LET'S GO TO PRESS.

Bad news for presidents who want to hide potential criminal conduct: A federal judge has blocked Trump's request to stop Deutsche Bank from releasing his detailed financial records to Congress, while New York lawmakers gave the okay for them to peek at the president's state tax records.

Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says we won't be getting the new Harriet Tubman $20 bill until well after the president leaves office (because the president is a racist bag of crap).


To the surprise of no one, according to former secretary of state Rex Tillerson speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Vladimir Putin was far more prepared than Trump in their famous 2017 meeting, putting America at a serious disadvantage.

During a meeting with Democrats on infrastructure, Trump pitched a hissy-fit and stormed out, claiming he would refuse to work on the project that would greatly benefit all Americans unless the Dems stopped investigating him. Sounds like the argument of an innocent man.


After being caught trying to cover it up, the Trump administration has been forced to admit that a sixth child has died in one of the president's immigration jails.

Iran is striking back in retaliation for Trump's economic sanctions while attempting to avoid an all-out war.

According to historians, the last known slave ship has been found buried in the mud in Alabama's Mobile River.

After serving a sentence of 17 years, John "American Taliban" Walker has been released from prison.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has been reelected in a landslide victory after wooing his people with a message of populism.

NOW IN LOCAL NEWS: A tense city council meeting resulted in Mayor Wheeler apologizing to Commissioners Hardesty and Eudaly following an argument over funding for the Gang Violence Reduction Team (formerly the Gang Enforcement Team) that disproportionately targeted Black people. Our Alex Zielinski has the story.

All three movie theaters in the Portland-area Cinetopia chain have abruptly closed. Check out what we know so far in this report from our Erik Henriksen.

A man in apparent mental health crisis climbed a 300-foot crane in SE Portland yesterday and was up there for five hours until successfully being talked down by the cops.

NOW HOW ABOUT THIS WEATHER: A cloudy morning will turn sunny with temps zooming up to 76 degrees!

And finally, I'd be mad too if my man were kissing some other bird.