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Biden calls Putin a killer, and says he will pay a price for interfering with America s election. Omir Messinger / Getty News
GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! I still go to Taco Bell, drive-thru, raw as hell. I don t care, I m still real, no matter how many records I sell. LET S GO TO PRESS.
• Brian Hunzeker, the president of Portland Police Association which is the union representing Portland s rank-and-file police, has abruptly resigned after making a serious, and unspecified mistake that involved the false hit-and-run allegation made against Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty. Someone in the police bureau allegedly leaked the untrue report to a right-wing Facebook group who spread the rumor like wildfire. Was this the mistake Hunzeker made? Hardesty, th