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Week Review
Bike Path Massacre in NY
At least eight people were killed
and others injured Tuesday after
a truck driver made a “purposeful
turn” onto a jogging and biking
path in lower Manhattan in New
York City, police said. The suspect
was taken into custody and the in-
cident is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack.
TriMet Plans for Hollywood MAX Memorial
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TriMet announced the details Thursday of its plans to create two me-
morial tributes at the Hollywood MAX station in northeast Portland
— one permanent and one temporary — honoring the people who lost
their lives during a MAX stabbing on May 26.The tributes will also
honor those hurt, including the two young women who were harassed.
Trump Adviser Lied; Others Charged
A former campaign adviser to President Trump ad-
mitted he lied to the FBI about his contacts with
Russians; and Trump’s former campaign chairman
Paul Manafort and a former Manafort business
associate were indicted on felony charges of con-
spiracy against the United States and other counts,
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation re-
vealed Monday.
Trump Chief of Staff Defends Confederacy
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said on Monday that a “lack of
ability to compromise led to the Civil War” and called the removal of
Confederate monuments a “dangerous” scrubbing of history. Speaking
to Fox news, Kelly went on to describe Robert E Lee, a Confederate gen-
eral who fought for Southern states’ rights to own slaves, as honorable.
White House Calls on Jubitz Truck Stop Owner
The president and chief executive of the Jubitz truck stop and travel
center in northeast Portland and a supporter of Republican political
causes, has been nominated to an advisory committee for the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The
selection of Frederick Jubitz was announced last week by the White
House.
Fats Domino Remembered
Fats Domino, the New Orleans R&B singer
whose two-fisted boogie-woogie piano and
nonchalant vocals made him one of the big-
gest stars of the early rock ’n’ roll era, is being
remembered after his death last week at his
home in Harvey, La., across the Mississippi
River from New Orleans. He was 89
Native Leader dead at 80
Dennis Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement and a
leader of the Wounded Knee occupation in South Dakota, died Sunday
at the age of 80. Banks was one of several activists who held federal
agents at bay for 71 days during the 1973 protest supporting Native
American rights.
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