IN LOCAL NEWS:• Yesterday, Portland’s mayor sent a memo to the City Council informing them of his plans to oust some people from the city’s 10 alternative shelter sites. [image or embed] — Portland Mercury (@portlandmercury.com) January 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM• Speaking of City Council, they’re scheduled to vote on a new council president and vice president today. It’s unclear whether the current Council President, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, will seek a second term in the role. Portland City Council is set to decide who will hold the council president’s gavel for the next year. 🍿[image or embed] — Portland Mercury (@portlandmercury.com) January 7, 2026 at 9:08 AM• Ever dreamed of working at the Mercury?

Flightplan, the 2005 mystery thriller starring Sean Bean and Jodie Foster, is leaving Netflix this month. Described as "a heart-stopping thriller" by CNN.com, Flightplan follows American aircraft engineer Kyle Pratt (Foster), a woman struggling with the sudden loss of her husband, David (John Benjamin Hickey). Determined to find her child against all odds, Kyle launches her own investigation mid-flight, uncovering a conspiracy in the process. It was really that one scene where I read it and was like, 'I gotta make this movie,'" she explained. "It was originally written for a man, and when I got to that scene, I said, 'This is not a man's scene!

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Highland distillery Tomatin encourages Scotch whisky lovers to enjoy a curated collection of single malt whiskies designed to pair with each course of a traditional Burns Night supper. The pairings begin with Tomatin 10 Year Old, a bourbon cask-matured expression recommended alongside Cullen skink, a soup made with haddock, potatoes, and onions. For the haggis course, Tomatin suggests its Double Cask expression, matured in ex-bourbon and ex-Oloroso sherry casks. The Tomatin 12 Year Old Sherry Cask, fully matured in sherry oak, is positioned for the dessert course. The final dram in the collection is Tomatin Cask Strength Bourbon and Sherry, bottled at 57% ABV.

In a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, Warner Bros’ board said Paramount’s offer hinges on “an extraordinary amount of debt financing” that heightens the risk of closing. The Warner Bros. water tower is seen at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif., Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Warner Bros shares closed at $28.47 on Tuesday. Paramount offered “insufficient compensation” for the damage done to the studio’s business, if the Paramount deal failed to close, Warner Bros said. Paramount “repeatedly failed to submit the best proposal” to Warner Bros shareholders, the board wrote, “despite clear direction” on the deficiencies in its bid and potential solutions.

Four hospitals in Manatee and Sarasota counties were listed among Florida’s best on a recent ranking by Forbes magazine’s 2026 Top Hospitals survey. Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s main campus, its Venice campus and HCA Florida Doctors Hospital in Sarasota were among the 29 statewide medical facilities named by Forbes. It was the first year Forbes compiled such a list, which totaled 253 facilities with five-star rankings and 509 with four-star rankings. Rob Anderson, CEO of Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Photo by Lesley Dwyer“We are honored to be recognized as a 2026 Top Hospitals by Forbes,” said Rob J. Anderson, chief executive officer of Lakewood Ranch Medical Center. “These measures were given the most weight and, therefore, had the most influence on each hospital’s overall rating,'' the magazine wrote.

US seizes 2nd ship linked to Venezuela, Secretary Kristi Noem says The U.S. seized the Russian-flagged Marinera oil tanker, which has been linked to Venezuela and was transiting the North Atlantic, sources said. It also seized another tanker, according to Noem.

HuffPost Headlines 1-7Trump blasted over Greenland, Mark Kelly fights back and Warner Brothers shuts the door on Paramount once again, just some of the stories HuffPost is following.

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And it would bring the world back to the late-19th century’s “spheres of influence” where the great powers, now with the U.S. in a leading role, divide the world up for conquest and extraction. This is what the end of the international order, built since the end of World War II, looks like. JIM WATSON via Getty ImagesThis is not what the Monroe Doctrine, which Trump bases his new vision on, was intended for. But the U.S., once upon a time and often with blatant hypocrisy, had at least promoted an international order that aspired to restrain the brutality that visited the world in the first half of the 20th century — no more. Trump and Miller would rather return to their vision of the state of nature that existed before the world learned a bloody lesson.

The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday released a report after its own investigation into FireAid, the charity founded by Clippers executives that raised $100 million for wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles last January. The new Republican-led committee report is skeptical of the nonprofit work done under FireAid’s auspices — but cites relatively few examples of groups deviating from FireAid’s stated goals. Out of hundreds of nonprofits given millions in FireAid funds, “In total, the Committee found six organizations that allocated FireAid grants towards labor, salaries, or other related costs,” the report said. AdvertisementThe committee singled out several local nonprofits, focused on relief and development for minorities and marginalized groups, for criticism. of Los Angeles County and LA Conservation Corps “towards labor, salaries, or other related costs,” which the committee said went against FireAid’s stated goals.

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In college in Washington, D.C., I always told people I grew up outside of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times reporter Colleen Shalby’s family home survived the Eaton fire in Altadena. Others were engineers at the Jet Propulsion Lab and professors at Caltech and teachers and artists and plumbers and everyday commuters to downtown Los Angeles. The Eaton fire took off less than two miles east from my family’s home, not far from the base of Eaton Canyon. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)AdvertisementMonths after the fire, my family was able to move back to Altadena.

A U.S. military seizure of Greenland from a longtime ally, Denmark, would send shock waves through the NATO alliance and deepen the divide between Trump and European leaders. “We want to take action, but we want to do so together with our European partners,” he said on France Inter radio. A German government source said separately that Germany was “closely working together with other European countries and Denmark on the next steps regarding Greenland”. Trump has repeatedly said Russian and Chinese vessels are stalking waters around Greenland, which Denmark disputes. Vessel tracking data from MarineTraffic and LSEG show no presence of Chinese or Russian ships near Greenland.

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