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Oregon News

Oregon farm group says rising immigration enforcement is disruptive to agriculture

Oregon appeals federal contempt ruling over state hospital delays

The state’s largest county should lower key tax on high earners, governor says

Oregon’s jobless rate hits another post-pandemic high: ‘real evidence of weakness in the state’

Oregon ski areas could be in major trouble due to lawsuit threat

Oregon Pioneer statue atop the State Capitol needs a new coat of gold

Oregon Political News

‘OPB Politics Now’: What Oregon lawmakers have, have not done on education issues this session

Oregon House resolution honors Black drag performers

Kotek’s Education Accountability Bill Moves Through Both Chambers

Democratic Oregon House members celebrate Black drag performers, as nearly all Republicans boycott

Bill to strengthen Oregon’s electric grid, increase transmission capacity passes Legislature

Why Oregon lawmaker is ‘frustrated to the highest level’

Oregon House advances middle housing bill: What to know

Oregon lawmakers invest in expanded water recycling for irrigation

Oregon Wildfire News

Upper Applegate Fire prompts evacuations, grows over 300 acres

Level 3 ‘go now’ evacuation order issued for fire near Mapleton

Firefighters slow advance of Upper Applegate blaze

UPDATE: Upper Applegate Fire 70% lined, estimated at 470 acres; evacuation zones see downgrades, cancellations

Metropolitan Portland News

Portlanders are dissatisfied with the city’s affordability, survey finds

Portland councilors adopt first budget under new form of government

Parks Director Adena Long Is On Administrative Leave

Multnomah County Jail Wrongful Death Settlement Comes with Crucial Reforms

‘Largely lawful’ or ‘violently’ rioting? Portland police and feds split on nightly ICE protest

Central/Eastern Oregon

Juneteenth to carry on despite other groups canceling large cultural events in Bend

Health advisory issued for Lake Billy Chinook in central Oregon

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Minnesota murders rattle Corvallis, Benton leaders

Southern Oregon

Mercy moves forward with expansion plan

GP City Council approves plan to offer homeless site grant of up to $1.2 million

Recently approved $660M Jackson County budget pours money into capital improvement projects

Commissioners OK increase to budget for Josephine County sheriff

Longtime resident Sherrell picked to fill vacant Ashland City Council seat

Klamath Falls City Council adopts budget for next biennium

Business/Economic News

Fed holds interest rates steady, signals rate cuts of 0.5% later this year

Tech giant signals AI will force reductions in corporate ranks

Fannie, Freddie overseer wages online war against Fed chief

Health News

GOP senators warn mega-bill’s new Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals

Texas district judge overturns Biden rule on expanded abortion privacy protections

Education News

US restarting foreign student visas, demands social media access

Energy & Environment

Plastic bag bans are helping clean up US coastlines: Study

Misleading information on climate science delaying action: Report

International News

Trump dials back war talk, sees more time for diplomacy

Trump says he’ll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks

Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, was part of Tehran’s nuclear deal

Israeli scientists reel after Iranian missile strikes premier research institute

Russia’s economy minister says the country is on ‘the brink of recession’

Spain asks for break on NATO contribution: Report

European foreign ministers will meet with Iranian officials in Switzerland on Friday

Washington has had it with Andriy Yermak

European hot spots dig in against tourism

The U.S. could join Israel’s war with Iran to deploy this 30,000-pound bomb

National News

Seven Job Corps students, including one in Oregon, sue Labor Department over closures

Appeals panel hints it may allow Trump to control California National Guard deployment

Judge rejects ‘Duffy Directive’ tying DOT grants to immigration cooperation

National Campaign News

Party like it’s 2018: Dems look to 1st Trump midterm for 2025 races and 2026 momentum

62 percent of Democrats agree party leadership should be replaced: Survey

‘Weak,’ ‘whiny’ and ‘invisible’: Critics of DNC Chair Ken Martin savage his tenure

National Political News

Trump’s VA cut a program that’s saving vets’ homes. Even Republicans have questions

Trump administration cuts specialized suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth

Trump is gutting an agency that gave $300 million to Wisconsin mental health initiatives

Green energy credits phaseout divides Senate Republicans

Proposed sale of millions of acres of public land under GOP budget bill prompts backlash

GOP senators are not fans of Trump’s new TikTok delay

Scoop: MAGA’s new attack on the Fed

Senate holds firm on aggressive timeline for Trump budget bill

Trump presses aides on whether bunker-buster plan to bomb Iran will work

Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s blowup exposes MAGA’s divide on war with Iran

Handcuffed Democrats become symbol of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

Opinion

As our kids battle a rise in suicide and self-harm, we’re gutting the funding to fight it

Chinese leaders have a long history of strategic deception

Reconciliation and rescissions roil Congress 

MAGA’s Misguided Isolationists

The Social Security Iceberg Gets Closer