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Oregon News

Details emerge about Oregon State Hospital leader’s sudden departure

Oregon governor, congressional delegation urge feds to declare disaster for coast salmon fisheries

Oregon lawmakers make it explicit: No garbage bags for kids in foster care

Oregon gun owners appeal to state Supreme Court to review gun control Measure 114

Oregon Political News

With federal EV support uncertain, Oregon lawmakers consider revamping the state’s popular rebate to prioritize lower-income buyers

Oregon House passes bill to criminalize sharing AI-generated fake nude photos

Metropolitan Portland News

ACLU Wants City Investigation of Police Presence at Councilors’ Town Halls

Central/Eastern Oregon

Harney County flood warning extended indefinitely due to snowmelt

Willamette Valley News

What library, parks supporters are doing to get voters to approve levy

South Salem exit on I-5 closing overnight in April

Southern Oregon

Grants Pass leaders would earn more than in comparable cities

RCC board says yes to expansion of auto, diesel facilities

$225M for Oregon in limbo after Trump cuts. What’s at stake for Medford, Grants Pass and other communities

Klamath Community College hosts Oregon Joint Ways and Means committee April 25 to take public testimony on state budget

Business/Economic News

Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in court against monopoly claims

Oregon losing potential jobs, investment as businesses expand elsewhere

Natural Resource News

Self-deportation seen as snag in Trump’s plan for farmworkers

Transportation News

Federal judge orders immediate thaw of climate, infrastructure funds

Education News

Trump’s fight with higher education reaches a tipping point with Harvard defiance

Trump Threatens to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status

Health News

‘Whole generation of kids is damaged’: RFK Jr. takes MAHA on the road

Autism rates in US continue to increase, CDC says

International News

Vance on Zelensky criticism: ‘Sort of absurd’ and ‘certainly not productive’

Scoop: Trump holds situation room meeting on Iran nuclear deal negotiations

Gaza territory shrinks drastically as Israel seizes huge swaths of land

National News

Judge orders Trump officials’ depositions, blasts inaction in Abrego Garcia case

White House: Abrego Garcia deportation to El Salvador ‘always going to be end result’

Judge temporarily halts Trump admin move to end Biden-era migration program

Former top government lawyers are jumping into the Big Law fight against Trump

National Campaign News

House Republican campaign arm raises $36.7M in first quarter

Scoop: Thune quietly met with Brian Kemp on Georgia Senate race

Scoop: Senate Dems hit GOP on Social Security in first 2026 ads

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley Addresses 2026 Plans

National Political News

Jeffries gives jolt to stalled congressional stock ban push

DC announces ‘extraordinary measures’ after House fails to pass budget fix

Trump has not yet decided on a corporate tax hike, White House says

Trump aids Musk’s Social Security fraud hunt, despite lack of evidence

Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That’s likely illegal

Lawsuit filed after Trump’s budget office shuts down public information about spending

DOGE News

Entire Pentagon defense tech unit to leave by May

Inside DOGE’s push to defy a court order and access Social Security data

A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims

DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that the government already found years ago

Opinion

A storm of dissent against MAGA is brewing into a hurricane

DOGE’s IRS cuts will cost the average American a fortune 

Trump now owns the creaky economy, lock, stock and imported barrel

In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative

Food stamp reform excluding soda is a huge win for making America healthy again

How judges can hold Trump admin accountable for defying court orders