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Neither side is backing down as protesters and federal agents continue to clash periodically in downtown Portland after an infusion of federal resources in the area, and the Trump administration persists in seeking political gains from ongoing tensions. “We want them to get the shit out of our city,” said …

Words like “epic” and “unprecedented” get thrown around a lot these days. It’s not every day that we experience a pandemic, a global shutdown, and the biggest central bank stimulus injection in history. But the action in electric vehicle (EV) actions has certainly been epic. Tesla, for example, has risen …

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn is “cautiously optimistic” about a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine after promising results were released about a possible vaccine, he told “America’s Newsroom” on Monday. Early results from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial showed “robust” responses from the immune …

UPDATE: 4:56 pm Arrowhead time NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport aired a note describing COVID testing for the NFL. With the tests now due 72 hours apart, the timeline Reid outlined on Monday morning (below) is delayed two days as the Chiefs rookies would receive their next test on Thursday. Kansas …

A gunman took a bus and took about 20 people hostage in northwestern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukrainian police said. Police closed downtown Lutsk, a city 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Kiev. The attacker is armed and carries explosives, they said in a Facebook statement. Police officers are trying to …