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Oregon News

Firework bans, restrictions across Oregon and Southwest Washington ahead of July 4

OHSU’s new president Shereef Elnahal on building trust and potential funding cuts

Statewide minimum wage increases 35 cents, the lowest rise in ten years

Longtime Oregon legislator faces ethics investigation over pay raise

State enacts new rules on corporate practice of medicine

Oregon Political News /Polls

Gov. Kotek blames transportation package failure on Republicans ‘who just wanted to go home’

Republicans block attempt to prevent federal overreach with Oregon’s National Guard

What bills died in the Oregon Legislature? Police drones. Tax relief for the well-off. A transgender sports ban

Legislature ends without transportation package, triggering ODOT layoffs

Bentz: Sale of public lands in West not right for federal spending bill

Gov. Kotek vetoes child welfare bills, possibly in reaction to Gelser Blouin

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregonians urged to check fireworks restrictions, keep celebrations legal and safe

Former BLM Deputy Director Steve Ellis critical of fire consolidation proposal

ODF to increase fire danger level to high, effective Wednesday

Polar Fire in Klamath County contained at just over 30 acres

Metropolitan Portland News

4 shot at private Portland event, 16-year-old suspect in custody

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Lawmakers approve projects, programs in Marion and Polk counties

Legislature votes to study Willamette Valley garbage woes

Southern Oregon

Grants Pass School Board to choose chair, vice chair Tuesday

Bacteria levels elevated in 4 Jackson creeks

Business/Economic News

Tektronix’s new parent company dips in first day of trading

Health News

New docs get schooled in old diseases as vax rates fall

Trump administration’s ‘war on HIV’ funding takes toll, scientists and advocates say

Transportation News

Delta resets some customer accounts: What to know

1 hurt in windmill blade incident on Maryland highway

Energy & Environment

EPA says it will delay pollution rules for coal plants

International News

Trump signs order dismantling decades of Syria sanctions

Trump pressures Israel to end Gaza conflict as he eyes Abraham Accords expansion

Netanyahu to head to Washington next Monday as Trump presses for a ceasefire in Gaza

National News

DOJ announces takedown of record $14.6B in health care fraud

Kavanaugh objects as Supreme Court turns away California pig welfare law challenge

Supreme Court declines fired teacher’s free speech challenge over anti-transgender TikToks

Supreme Court takes up a Republican appeal to end limits on party spending in federal elections

Court fights renew in earnest in effort to challenge Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order after SCOTUS ruling

Trump admin sues L.A., claiming sanctuary policy fueled ICE protests

Harvard’s treatment of Jewish students violates Civil Rights law, HHS says

National Campaign News/Polls

National pride slips among Americans: Gallup 

Republican hopefuls wait for Lara Trump decision in North Carolina Senate race, sources tell CNN

Rep. Don Bacon announces retirement, opening up purple Nebraska district

National Political News

Trump megabill faces GOP holdouts amid marathon vote-a-rama

Live updates: Thune looks to nail down holdouts on Trump megabill

Musk calls for new political party amid criticism of Trump megabill

Musk slams Trump megabill: ‘Political suicide for the Republican Party’

Collins offers amendment to raise tax rates on ultrawealthy earners

Bessent on becoming Fed chair: ‘I will do what the president wants’

GOP senators unveil amendment to shrink Medicaid by another $313B

Trump shares handwritten note to Powell: ‘You have cost the USA A Fortune’

GOP holdouts noncommittal on how they’ll vote on Trump megabill 

Senate bill allowed to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood

House Freedom Caucus targets Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ with concerns about budget deficit

GOP fight over clean energy threatens to derail megabill

Anxious House Republicans scramble to forestall Senate’s Medicaid cuts

Tariff/Trade News

Trump suggests there won’t be a trade deal with Japan

Senators slam Lloyd Austin over new consulting firm

Scoop: Trump admin customs revenue tops $100 billion, boosted by tariffs

Government Employee News

EPA employees go public with opposition to Trump policies

Trump tried to fire them. But these Democratic appointees are still on the job.

Opinion

CNN has no one to blame but itself

The Supreme Court’s injunctions decision returns America to the constitutional horrors of Dred Scott 

Democrats need to break up with Randi Weingarten 

How to restore public trust: Bring back federalism

What does the One Big Beautiful Bill mean for you, in one paragraph?

The Great Budget Baseline Con