Oregon

After a stunning performance, Antigoni Drisbioti was crowned European Champion in the 35 km race walking event, with the 38-year-old champion giving Greece its first gold medal in the event.

The Greek champion finished in 2 hours 46 minutes and 58 seconds.

Drisbioti led the race early on and comfortably took first place.

American Fred Kerley led a U.S. cleansweep as he stormed to victory in the men's 100m at the World Championships in Oregon on July 16.

Kerley, in lane four, trailed Marvin Bracy for 95 meters of the tight race, but managed to outdip his teammate for victory in 9.86 seconds at Eugene's Hayward Field.

Branden Grace grabbed five of his eight birdies on the back nine on June 2 to pull away for a two-shot win in the Portland LIV Golf Invitational and capture the $4 million first prize.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce hammered home her status as world championship favorite on June 18 by equaling her world best time this year to win the 100m at the Paris Diamond League meeting.

The veteran Jamaican sprinter triumphed in 10.67sec, shrugging off the crushing 30-degree heat at the city's Charlety stadium.

Former Kremlin employee and vice-president of Gazprombank Vladislav Avayev was found dead in his elite Moscow apartment, police said, quoted by the Daily Mail. The bodies of his pregnant wife Elena (47), as well as their younger daughter Maria, 13, were found next to the body.

U.S.

Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.B. Cooper vanished out the back of a Boeing 727 into freezing Northwest rain — wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack with $200,000 in cash — a crime historian is conducting a dig on the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, in search of evidence.

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A new laboratory study from Oregon Health and Science University suggests that older people appear to have fewer antibodies against the novel coronavirus.

With oppressively hot, dry weather looming over much of the Western U.S. and Canada on July 18, the enormous Bootleg Fire in Oregon grew again and authorities ordered new evacuations.

Bootleg, the largest of 80 major fires now active in the U.S., spread overnight from 274,000 acres to 290,000 acres -- three times the size of the metropolis of Detroit, officials said.

In Seattle and Portland, after several consecutive days of record high temperatures that exceeded 37.7, there was a relaxation on Tuesday, but the temperatures in the cities in eastern Oregon and the cities in Idaho increased a lot, reports AP.
42.2 degrees were measured in Spokane, Washington, which is the highest temperature ever recorded in that city.