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People have turned out to demonstrate for racial justice and police accountability in Hermiston, Pendleton and John Day, along the Oregon coast, and in neighborhoods around Portland and its suburbs.

Several hundred people rallied and marched through downtown Medford Saturday afternoon. They came to express their anger at the deaths of black people at the hands of police, and to support justice for people of color.

A Josephine County church suing Gov. Kate Brown in federal court over pandemic-related restrictions on worship services announced Friday they are exiting the lawsuit.

The coronavirus recession is the second — or even third — economic downturn of millennials' adult lives. That could mean reduced wages for life.

Oregon health officials said the high number resulted from more widespread testing, contact tracing and reporting of workplace outbreaks.

Measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic have devastated China's economy, shutting factories and urban jobs that millions of migrant workers depend upon. Many now seek jobs in their villages.

The committee tasked with marking U.S. business cycles says the economy peaked in February and has since been in a recession triggered by the pandemic. But it says the recession could be short-lived.

Eme Freethinker wanted to commemorate George Floyd alive, rather than show his killing. "Some guy told me, 'You have to do it with the police over his neck,' and I was like: 'No, man. Not like that.'"

This is the last of Floyd's public memorial services, which have previously been held in Raeford, N.C., and in Minneapolis, where he was killed by police on May 25.

Congressional Democrats have released a wide-ranging proposal aimed at overhauling policing, following outrage over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police.