The frustration with the Portland City Council’s handling of drug use and needles in public spaces, suggesting a state-wide rule for needle exchange programs. Another caller proposes a tougher approach to drug use in public areas, advocating for arrests and a suboxone program. The conversation touches on the broken windows theory of urban management, emphasizing that visible signs of decline can encourage crime.
President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an "armed conflict" with them, according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, following recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting "irreversible" cuts to programs important to Democrats.
The Department of Energy will take a 5% equity stake in the miner, which is based in Vancouver. It will also take a 5% stake in the Thacker Pass lithium mining project, a joint venture with General Motors.