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Voters support Measure 11 but open to reducing sentences for some lower-level crimes, poll finds Updated Dec 16, 2020; A majority of registered voters surveyed support the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing law but are also open to reexamining aspects of the law, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Oregon District Attorneys Association. The association released the polling of 600 registered voters as the Legislature is expected to consider reforming Measure 11 in the upcoming session. About 47 percent of Oregon prison inmates are serving sentences under Measure 11, which voters...

Scientific American Defense Experts Call on Biden to Ready Military for Climate Change Some leaders want the military to use its purchasing power to invest in clean energy technology and solutions to mitigate climate impacts Print Debris litters Tyndall Air Force Base following Hurricane Michael on October 17, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. Credit: Scott Olson Advertisement The incoming Biden administration should press U.S. defense and intelligence agencies to do more about climate change, a panel of national security experts said yesterday. And one way to do it is through the power of their...

coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people paying their respects. so this is as it was expected. kim jong-un obviously now called the supreme leader according to state media was also front and center. ...

choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people pa...

sun rose over kabul, the building still smoking, we understand a fire was ignited when the building was attacked. the police very cautiously still searching through the building looking for more victims and indeed survivors but also very wary in the chaos, there may still be taliban insurgents hiding in the buildinging. in the previous attack in 2008 the attackers described themselves as policemen and when the police eventually made it into the building, it was only by chance that they spotted one of the attackers in his uniform as he tried to flee. there's no suggestion that last ni...