Author: Gesi Lloyd

A Portland woman has filed a $10,000 lawsuit against Trader Joe’s in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleging she found the fingertip of a rubber glove inside a bottle of the chain’s organic orange juice and may have inadvertently swallowed part of a human finger along with it. The complaint, filed Monday and first reported by OregonLive and KGW-TV, identifies the plaintiff as Julee O’Neil. She says she purchased a 52-ounce bottle of Trader Joe’s Organic Orange Juice from the chain’s location on Northeast Halsey Street in Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood sometime in June 2025. What she found, and what she feared…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order Today reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana under federal law, marking one of the most consequential shifts in American drug policy in decades. The change moves medical cannabis from Schedule I, the most restrictive federal drug category, to Schedule III, the same tier as ketamine and Tylenol with codeine. The order does not legalize marijuana at the federal level. Recreational use remains prohibited under federal law, and the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis outside of state-licensed medical programs would still be subject to federal enforcement. What changes is how the government treats the…

Oklahoma City needed just one look at Jalen Williams reaching for his left hamstring to understand what was happening. He motioned toward the bench. They knew. The Thunder beat the Phoenix Suns 120-107 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 series lead in their first-round Western Conference playoff matchup, but the final score was almost beside the point. With 6:26 remaining in the third quarter, Williams drove toward the basket, pulled up short and grabbed the back of his left leg. He took an intentional foul a few possessions later to exit cleanly, walked to the locker room and did…

The Madrid Open’s Round of 64 is officially underway, and Today’s schedule carries enough intrigue to keep even casual tennis fans glued to the action. Players who received first-round byes are stepping onto the clay at Caja Magica for the first time this week, facing opponents who already have a match and some momentum behind them. That dynamic shapes several of the predictions below. Naomi Osaka opens cold in Madrid Naomi Osaka begins her Madrid campaign against Colombian clay specialist Camila Osorio, and the matchup is closer than the rankings suggest. Osaka, seeded 14th at the tournament, carries a 2-1…

Atlanta Falcons edge rusher James Pearce Jr. will not face trial on three felony counts and one misdemeanor charge, after Miami-Dade prosecutors agreed Thursday to place him in a pretrial diversion program. The agreement, if Pearce completes all requirements over the next six months, will result in a full dismissal of every charge against him. The charges stemmed from a February 7 incident in Doral, Florida, in which Pearce allegedly drove his Lamborghini into a car belonging to WNBA player Rickea Jackson, his former girlfriend, as she fled toward a local police station for protection. Officers who attempted to stop…

A project called Tico is changing how retro games run on the Nintendo Switch. It is a custom, multi-platform emulation frontend built in native C++ that allows classic games to launch directly within the Switch’s native Horizon operating system, something that was not possible before. Previously,Nintendo Switch owners who wanted to play GameCube or Wii titles had to install a separate operating system, such as Android, and run the Dolphin emulator through that layer. The extra overhead hurt performance and made the process cumbersome. Tico removes that step entirely. The latest release, version 0.7.0 alpha, introduces experimental GameCube and Wii…

A wildfire in Brantley County that began near U.S. Highway 82 close to the Glynn County line has grown to roughly 4,000 acres, with some estimates pushing closer to 5,000, according to the Georgia Forestry Commission. What started Monday as a fire of 600 to 700 acres with containment around 75% had, by early Wednesday, fallen to roughly 10% contained. The reversal happened fast. Conditions deteriorated sharply on Tuesday as the fire jumped U.S. Highway 82 and pushed into residential neighborhoods. Dozens of homes and several businesses have been destroyed. Evacuations and emergency shelters Evacuation orders have been issued for…

Boeing reported a net loss of just $7 million in the first quarter of 2026, a dramatic improvement from the $31 million loss it posted in the same period a year earlier. Revenue climbed 14% to $22.2 billion, surpassing analyst expectations of $21.78 billion. On an adjusted basis, the company posted a loss of 20 cents per share, well below the 83-cent loss Wall Street had forecast. For a company that has spent the better part of three years absorbing the financial and reputational fallout from a string of safety and manufacturing failures, the numbers represented something it has not…

A year ago, Shedeur Sanders was the most discussed name on draft weekend for all the wrong reasons. Today he is the most discussed name in the Cleveland Browns quarterback room for all the right ones. Sanders, 24, met with reporters after a Browns minicamp practice on Tuesday and delivered a message that was equal parts gratitude and quiet confidence. Asked to reflect on the past 12 months, he expressed deep thankfulness repeatedly and showed little interest in relitigating the draft drama that defined his entry into the league. He said he was grateful for how everything unfolded and refused…

Earth Day lands on Wednesday, April 22 this year, and its 56th anniversary arrives at a moment when the conversation around climate and conservation feels as charged as it did when the whole thing started. That origin story is worth knowing, because it was never really about holidays. The idea came from Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who had watched industrial pollution spread across the country with little political consequence. He found an unlikely partner in Representative Pete McCloskey of California, and together they modeled the event on the student anti-war protests that had been reshaping American public life. The…