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Portland reporter Mike Bivins was arrested on Saturday over alleged attacks of vandalism and arson at houses of worship, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Michael E. Bivins, 34, of Portland, Oregon was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center early Saturday. Bivins was charged with multiple counts of criminal mischief in the first degree, criminal mischief in the third degree, and arson in the first degree. On April 30, Bivins allegedly broke windows to Congregation Shir Tikvah, a Jewish Synagogue, located at 2420 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland. On May 2, Bivins allegedly graffitied the Jewish Synagogue Congregation Beth...

The size of President Donald Trump’s campaign crowd in Michigan on Friday easily beat a crowd attending a rally with former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday. Obama and Biden appeared on the campaign trail together for the first time together at a campaign rally at a Flint, Michigan, High School on Saturday afternoon. The Biden campaign continues to host “drive-in” rallies during the coronavirus pandemic, where supporters park their cars in the parking lot where their candidate is speaking. Photos from the Obama/Biden event showed a parking lot with socially distanced vehicles in it,...

They say this Clemson team is good....well I say we're better!

Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton has more money, a much longer political resume, a better-organized campaign than Donald Trump and a lead in national polls. Yet Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, says she's the underdog.

An unknown political novice who has never visited Washington, D.C., won a special election for Louisiana's 5th District seat Saturday on the endorsement of the “Duck Dynasty” family and a promise to fix Obamacare. Vance McAllister beat establishment candidate Neil Riser, a state senator, in Saturday's runoff election created when former Rep. Rodney Alexander resigned on Sept. 26 to become secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs under Republican Governor Bobby Jindal.

Sean Bielat, won’t you please come home? The Kennedys are back. It’s only been one blessed year with none of them in Congress, and now the plague is about to return. Joseph P. Kennedy III, also known as JoJoJo, is being “urged” to run. Mother o’ Gawd, how can we miss them when they won’t go away? JoJoJo is one of Joe Kennedy’s twin sons. For point of reference, he’s the twin who wasn’t set on fire by his father with illegal fireworks on the Fourth of July during one of those traditional Kennedy family weekends on the Cape. It...

WASHINGTON – The Senate's top Democrat praised federal judge Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday as an extraordinarily well-qualified Supreme Court nominee whose background as an "underdog" appeals to Americans. "We have the whole package here," said Sen. Harry Reid, seated beside Sotomayor as the two began a meeting in his Capitol office. He called her life story "compelling." "America identifies with the underdog, and you've been an underdog many times in your life," .. He said she has been tested many times in her life and always emerged as the "top dog."

For the second year in a row, American Idol voters have chosen the underdog over the frontrunner. Viewers, odds makers, pundits, more than half the audience - even Simon Cowell - were all stunned when the seemingly untouchable frontrunner fell to the underdog. Again. They shouldn't have been surprised. Rooting for the underdog is what American Idol - and what much of our public discourse - is all about. In any given week, more people tune in to watch amateur underdogs sing (often poorly) on American Idol than buy the Top Ten albums on Billboard's Chart - combined. It seems...

Najah Ali: Iraq's little boxing surprise Ten months ago, light flyweight Najah Ali wasn't on the Iraqi boxing team, because there was no such thing. On Aug. 18, the 4'11" 106-pounder in convincing style, 21-7, over a heavily favored opponent, North Korea's Kwak Hyok Ju, who is 5'4". In his first major international fight -- he only has about 35 bouts to his name total -- Ali controlled matters from the outset, leading 9-3 after one round. The shortest man in the Olympic boxing tournament danced around the ring agilely and snuck inside his taller opponent's reach to land...

Their campaigns jolted by upsets in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidates sparred over each others' experience and electability Tuesday in a race suddenly lacking a front-runner. ''I am an underdog in New Hampshire,'' John Kerry said in words echoed by Howard Dean as the volatile campaign moved east. A day earlier in Iowa, Kerry and John Edwards blew the campaign wide open with a one-two caucus finish, stripping a humbled Dean of his front-runner's mantle. As Rep. Dick Gephardt exited the race, his fourth-place finish a political death knell, the remaining major candidates adjusted their strategies for a weeklong sprint to...